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buildbot.lix.systems out of free disk 2024-06-09

Lix infrastructure guide Postmortems

The buildbot box was returning "no free space" to basically any btrfs operation including collect...

Updated 1 year ago by jade

Improving build times

Contributing Working in the Lix codebase

Setup Use a clang stdenv: nix develop .#native-clangStdenvPackages Then delete build/ if you were...

Updated 1 year ago by jade

Building Locally

Contributing Working in the Lix codebase

See hacking.md in the Lix repo for the main documentation. Extra tips can go here.

Updated 1 year ago by Qyriad

Changing names, emails, etc

Lix infrastructure guide Auth/SSO systems

The Lix project endeavours to not deadname people, because we believe in human decency. However, ...

Updated 1 year ago by jade

Matrix rooms

Lix organisation

Since Matrix is haunted sometimes, here is a list of rooms in the public Lix space: Public spac...

Updated 1 year ago by jade

Buildbot runbook

Lix infrastructure guide

Our buildbot instance has a habit of breaking due to excess load. Restarting the worker If the wo...

Updated 1 year ago by Qyriad

Obliterating history from Git

Lix infrastructure guide

To obliterate history from the Git repo means removing it from three different sources: Gerrit, F...

Updated 1 year ago by Puck Meerburg

Codebase overview

Contributing Working in the Lix codebase

The Lix system is constituted of two broad parts, the evaluator and the store daemon. The two pie...

Updated 1 year ago by jade

Language and terminology

Contributing Style Guide

Language Most existing Lix documentation is written in British English. We intend to continue wit...

Updated 1 year ago by jade

Why

Lix infrastructure guide

Why? Why self-host all your own infrastructure? We tried not to, at the very beginning of the pro...

Updated 2 years ago by jade

Operations

Contributing Style Guide

Operational Conventions Code Review Self Stamping and Merging On our Gerrit, core members have pe...

Updated 2 years ago by jade

Bug tracker organisation

Contributing Working in the Lix codebase

We have a repo of directly imported nix bugs at https://git.lix.systems/nixos/nix. Please don't f...

Updated 2 years ago by jade

How accounts work

Lix infrastructure guide Auth/SSO systems

Lix has one source of truth for authentication: Keycloak (identity.lix.systems). Most services ar...

Updated 2 years ago by ktemkin