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2025-06-27 Wiki work
Date: 2025-06-27 Present: jade, piegames Topic: Information organization in the wiki and the hom...
Why Gerrit?
Gerrit produces better code: Gerrit enforces good commit messages. "PR message" and "commit mess...
Commit porting (cherry-picking) guide
This guide is primarily about CppNix->Lix commit ports and was written when we were doing a lot o...
Gerrit
FIXME: this page is duplicating a lot of content from the Gerrit section and should be considered...
Running Lix main
Thank you for choosing to help us dogfood in our daily development! If you run into any issues, y...
2024-04-29 – Lix Release Bootstrapping
Agenda Prohibited items: Nix foundation politics, for everyone's safety Core Agenda: Figure ou...
Lix Governance
Moved to https://lix.systems/governance/
Gerrit with Jujutsu
Jujutsu has a very similar model to Gerrit and natively supports sending Gerrit changes! You’ll n...
Debugging weird DNS resolutions inside sandbox
Run this with pasta: $ nix-build -E 'let pkgs = (import <nixpkgs> {}); in pkgs.runCommand "resolv...
Nix Resources
Lix doesn't exist in a vacuum—but instead builds atop the incredible work of dozens of NixOS comm...
Related projects
This page lists community projects that are built with, optimized for, or make specific use of Li...
Code of Conduct
Moved to https://lix.systems/community-standards/
2025-06-26 Lix NixOS Module
Date: 2025-06-26 Participants: Niko, k900, piegames, Raito Topic: The current state of the Lix N...
Contributor permissions and Code Owners
One might wonder how permissions work on Lix and how one can help out with certain tasks. This is...
Dealing with CI
Logging in to CI for restarts Go via https://buildkite.com/sso/lix-project and use your Lix accou...
Information organisation
Lix has a lot of information as a project, and we want to make it accessible in a way that it can...
[archived] macOS Sequoia breaks existing Lix installations
macOS 15 "Sequoia" changed the user ID ranges used by the system, such that some of the IDs for e...
Machine and service overview
The Lix infrastructure is maintained with Nix code at https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/web-ser...
Code
Code changes Tests If at all practicable, all new code should be tested to some extent. If writin...
How do permissions work?
In an ideal world, all permissions are managed directly in Keycloak and propagated down to downst...