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Updated 2 months ago by piegames

2024-04-29 – Lix Release Bootstrapping

Discussion notes

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

Updated 2 months ago by piegames

Getting Started with Gerrit

Contributing Intro to Gerrit

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

Updated 2 months ago by Raito Bezarius

Darwin debugging for the Linux developer

Development Technical notes

These technical notes are meant to explain to a Linux developer what are the equivalents to debug...

Updated 2 months ago by Raito Bezarius

Troubleshooting

Contributing Intro to Gerrit

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

Updated 4 months ago by eldritch horrors

Release names

Development

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

Updated 6 months ago by piegames

Debugging a stuck Lix invocation

Lix users

If you're experiencing an issue where a lix command appears to hang or make no visible progress, ...

Updated 8 months ago by Raito Bezarius

Pointer equality

Development Technical notes

Introduction This page dives into the concept of pointer equality, its role in Lix, and provides ...

Updated 8 months ago by Raito Bezarius

xattrs feasibility to supplement the SQLite database model

Development Design planning

xattrs were imagined as a way to supplement/replace the SQLite database model. Unfortunately, xat...

Updated 8 months ago by Raito Bezarius

Flakes feature freeze

Development Design planning

The core team has decided to freeze the Flake feature set and semantics at its current point, exc...

Updated 8 months ago by piegames

Improving IFD

Development Design planning

Discussion pad: https://pad.lix.systems/Xd5Xyt5cToyYxIv-lNdehA Further reading: https://jade.fy...

Updated 8 months ago by piegames

Nix bootstrapping

Development Design planning

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

Updated 8 months ago by jade

Working Groups

Contributing Working in the Lix codebase

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

Updated 8 months ago by jade

Replacement CLI design & Profiles

Development Design planning

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

Updated 8 months ago by jade

Observability and Protocol Design

Development Design planning

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

Updated 8 months ago by jade

Flake stabilisation proposal

Development Design planning

Preface STATUS: The core team has discussed this proposal, and decided that Lix will be moving in...

Updated 8 months ago by piegames

Nix lang v2

Development Design planning

The Nix language unfortunately is full of little and big design accidents. Only so much can be fi...

Updated 8 months ago by piegames

Docs rewrite plans

Development Design planning

Here, for now (public edit link): https://pad.lix.systems/lix-docs-planning

Updated 8 months ago by jade

Language versioning

Development Design planning

This document is extremely a draft. It needs some editing and discussion before it can be made in...

Updated 8 months ago by jade

Dreams

Development Design planning

This page documents the dreams of the Lix team. These are features which we have generally not ro...

Updated 8 months ago by piegames