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Dreams
This page documents the dreams of the Lix team. These are features which we have generally not ro...
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...
Obliterating history from Git
To obliterate history from the Git repo means removing it from three different sources: Gerrit, F...
Codebase overview
The Lix system is constituted of two broad parts, the evaluator and the store daemon. The two pie...
Language and terminology
Language Most existing Lix documentation is written in British English. We intend to continue wit...
Docs rewrite plans
Here, for now (public edit link): https://pad.lix.systems/lix-docs-planning
Why
Why? Why self-host all your own infrastructure? We tried not to, at the very beginning of the pro...
Operations
Operational Conventions Code Review Self Stamping and Merging On our Gerrit, core members have pe...
Language versioning
This document is extremely a draft. It needs some editing and discussion before it can be made in...
regexp engine investigation
nix uses libstdc++'s std::regex. it uses whatever version of libstdc++ the host system has. which...