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Tips and Tricks
SSH Tuning Add these lines to your ~/.ssh/config: Host gerrit.lix.systems User YOUR_GERRIT_US...
Troubleshooting
"Remote Unpack Failed" on push Run a git fetch and try again. Re-run a CI Do an empty commit amen...
Review Flow
The review flow is quite similar to how Github does it, but there are a few differences here too....
Forgejo improvements
A brief overview of our code infrastructure for those not in the Lix project: Forgejo https://g...
2025-03-15: git.lix.systems replication broke
On 2025-03-15, the git.lix.systems host (which runs gerrit.lix.systems and identity.lix.systems a...
Misc tips
pyright is not dealing with import paths correctly for functional2 I don't know why it's doing th...
Creating Matrix Rooms/Spaces
actual explanation will follow, tldr; here: create room with the matrix API or a client that all...
Merging Gerrit identities
Basically, following https://ovirt-infra-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/General/Gerrit_account_mer...
Community Standards
Moved to https://lix.systems/community-standards/
Tutorial: adding auto mapping of forgejo groups
Create a role on the Keycloak client: Go into the group in question and map it the role you just...
Working with S3
Introduction We use garage, an open-source server compatible with Amazon's S3 API, hosted on our ...
Assigning Groups
See How do permissions work? for implementation details. tldr; Go to the admin console (no trail...
Branches
The Lix repository contains multiple releases in parallel. The branches work as follows: main. ...
RISC-V support
Goal: install lix on a riscv64-linux system The target is a DevTerm R-01, so it's an AllWinner D1...
buildbot.lix.systems out of free disk 2024-06-09
The buildbot box was returning "no free space" to basically any btrfs operation including collect...
Improving build times
Setup Use a clang stdenv: nix develop .#native-clangStdenvPackages Then delete build/ if you were...
Building Locally
See hacking.md in the Lix repo for the main documentation. Extra tips can go here.
Changing names, emails, etc
The Lix project endeavours to not deadname people, because we believe in human decency. However, ...
Matrix rooms
Since Matrix is haunted sometimes, here is a list of rooms in the public Lix space: Public spac...
Buildbot runbook
Our buildbot instance has a habit of breaking due to excess load. Restarting the worker If the wo...