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2025-06-27 Wiki work

Contributing Discussion notes

Date: 2025-06-27 Present: jade, piegames Topic: Information organization in the wiki and the hom...

Updated 3 weeks ago by piegames

Why Gerrit?

Contributing Intro to Gerrit

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

Updated 3 weeks ago by jade

Commit porting (cherry-picking) guide

Contributing 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 3 weeks ago by jade

Gerrit

Contributing Working in the Lix codebase

FIXME: this page is duplicating a lot of content from the Gerrit section and should be considered...

Updated 3 weeks ago by jade

Running Lix main

Contributing

Thank you for choosing to help us dogfood in our daily development! If you run into any issues, y...

Updated 3 weeks ago by helle

2024-04-29 – Lix Release Bootstrapping

Contributing Discussion notes

Agenda Prohibited items: Nix foundation politics, for everyone's safety Core Agenda: Figure ou...

Updated 3 weeks ago by piegames

Lix Governance

Lix organisation

Moved to https://lix.systems/governance/

Updated 1 month ago by piegames

Gerrit with Jujutsu

Contributing Intro to Gerrit

Jujutsu has a very similar model to Gerrit and natively supports sending Gerrit changes! You’ll n...

Updated 2 months ago by Max Siling

Debugging weird DNS resolutions inside sandbox

Lix users

Run this with pasta: $ nix-build -E 'let pkgs = (import <nixpkgs> {}); in pkgs.runCommand "resolv...

Updated 4 months ago by Raito Bezarius

Nix Resources

Lix users

Lix doesn't exist in a vacuum—but instead builds atop the incredible work of dozens of NixOS comm...

Updated 6 months ago by piegames

Related projects

Lix users

This page lists community projects that are built with, optimized for, or make specific use of Li...

Updated 6 months ago by piegames

Code of Conduct

Lix organisation

Moved to https://lix.systems/community-standards/

Updated 6 months ago by piegames

2025-06-26 Lix NixOS Module

Contributing Discussion notes

Date: 2025-06-26 Participants: Niko, k900, piegames, Raito Topic: The current state of the Lix N...

Updated 6 months ago by piegames

Contributor permissions and Code Owners

Contributing

One might wonder how permissions work on Lix and how one can help out with certain tasks. This is...

Updated 7 months ago by jade

Dealing with CI

Contributing Working in the Lix codebase

Logging in to CI for restarts Go via https://buildkite.com/sso/lix-project and use your Lix accou...

Updated 7 months ago by Raito Bezarius

Information organisation

Contributing

Lix has a lot of information as a project, and we want to make it accessible in a way that it can...

Updated 7 months ago by piegames

[archived] macOS Sequoia breaks existing Lix installations

Lix users Common issues

macOS 15 "Sequoia" changed the user ID ranges used by the system, such that some of the IDs for e...

Updated 7 months ago by piegames

Machine and service overview

Lix infrastructure guide

The Lix infrastructure is maintained with Nix code at https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/web-ser...

Updated 8 months ago by emilylange

Code

Contributing Style Guide

Code changes Tests If at all practicable, all new code should be tested to some extent. If writin...

Updated 9 months ago by jade

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...

Updated 10 months ago by piegames