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How do permissions work?

Lix infrastructure guide Auth/SSO systems

In an ideal world, all permissions are managed directly in Keycloak and propagated down to downst...

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Easy Drive-by Contributions

Lix contributors

This page lists easy contributions to do without additional context. Perfect to do on a quiet wee...

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Getting Started with Gerrit

Lix contributors Gerrit

Thanks for showing interest in contributing to Lix! Gerrit can seem daunting at first, but it is ...

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Advanced Features

Lix contributors Gerrit

If you feel confident in your Gerrit-fu, this page is for you. Perhaps you've already noticed how...

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Tips and Tricks

Lix contributors Gerrit

SSH Tuning Add these lines to your ~/.ssh/config: Host gerrit.lix.systems User YOUR_GERRIT_US...

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Why Gerrit?

Lix contributors Gerrit

Gerrit produces better code: Gerrit enforces good commit messages. "PR message" and "commit mess...

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Gerrit with Jujutsu

Lix contributors Gerrit

Jujutsu has a very similar model to Gerrit! How nice it would be to integrate them! Unfortunately...

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Troubleshooting

Lix contributors Gerrit

"Remote Unpack Failed" on push Run a git fetch and try again. Re-run a CI Do an empty commit amen...

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Review Flow

Lix contributors Gerrit

The review flow is quite similar to how Github does it, but there are a few differences here too....

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Release names

Lix contributors

Release names are the names of frozen desserts. There's a list on Wikipedia of frozen desserts, b...

Updated 3 weeks ago by jade

IFD Improvement Discussion

Lix contributors Design documents

Pad: https://pad.lix.systems/Xd5Xyt5cToyYxIv-lNdehA

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Roadmap 2026

Lix contributors Design documents

Lix's roadmap for 2026

Updated 1 month ago by Raito Bezarius

Nix bootstrapping

Lix contributors Design documents

Pad: https://pad.lix.systems/VjA-WMSQS42dh-ghL98Uow

Updated 1 month ago by jade

Forgejo improvements

Lix infrastructure guide Tooling improvements

A brief overview of our code infrastructure for those not in the Lix project: Forgejo https://g...

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2025-03-15: git.lix.systems replication broke

Lix infrastructure guide Postmortems

On 2025-03-15, the git.lix.systems host (which runs gerrit.lix.systems and identity.lix.systems a...

Updated 1 month ago by jade

Working Groups

Lix contributors Working in the Lix codebase

What are they? Lix doesn't have a very formal development structure - ice cream isn't a stranger ...

Updated 1 month ago by kfearsoff

Replacement CLI design & Profiles

Lix contributors Design documents

Draft pads: https://pad.lix.systems/lix-cli-design https://pad.lix.systems/lix-profiles

Updated 1 month ago by jade

Commit porting (cherry-picking) guide

Lix contributors Working in the Lix codebase

This guide is primarily about CppNix->Lix commit ports and was written when we were doing a lot o...

Updated 2 months ago by jade

Freezes and recommended contributions

Lix contributors Working in the Lix codebase

Suggested contributions Consider taking an issue marked E-help wanted: assign it to yourself and ...

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Observability and Protocol Design

Lix contributors Design documents

jade: I think that we should start protocol design by thinking about who needs what information, ...

Updated 2 months ago by jade