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Preface FIXME: this page hasn't been reviewed by Lix Core team members, so it's effectively a draft/suggestion/pre-RFC/dream, whatever. It's not an official design document, but thought has been put into making it good, anyway. Problem Statement Flakes are a m...

jade: I think that we should start protocol design by thinking about who needs what information, which is most cleanly hit by looking at how observability architecture looks. Let's get cracking on what observability we need/want in Lix. Context Old profiling p...

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

What are they? Lix doesn't have a very formal development structure - ice cream isn't a stranger to being fluid, after all! But all of the contributors have a different shape - so they are naturally drawn to different parts of the project. Documenting that is...

On 2025-03-15, the git.lix.systems host (which runs gerrit.lix.systems and identity.lix.systems also) got migrated to the forkos infra repo. Fixes: https://git.lix.systems/the-distro/infra/pulls/193 This broke Gerrit replication due to multiple reasons: Chan...

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

Lix's roadmap for 2026

Pad: https://pad.lix.systems/Xd5Xyt5cToyYxIv-lNdehA

Thanks for showing interest in contributing to Lix! Gerrit can seem daunting at first, but it is our hope that you'll learn to navigate it and use it confidently after finishing this tutorial. Perhaps the first question you have is: "Why Gerrit"? Well, glad yo...

The review flow is quite similar to how Github does it, but there are a few differences here too. The UI also hides a few pretty powerful features! Reviewer Flow You can scroll down to the changes and start a review: You can click on a line number to add a co...

"Remote Unpack Failed" on push Run a git fetch and try again. Re-run a CI Do an empty commit amend: git commit -a. This will change the commit ID (because the date has changed!), so it will now be a new CL revision: you can git push it and pray for good CI run...

Jujutsu has a very similar model to Gerrit! How nice it would be to integrate them! Unfortunately, Jujutsu currently doesn't support Gerrit natively. You'll have to rely on a couple of workarounds to get it working. You need to colocate with Git, because Juju...

Gerrit produces better code: Gerrit enforces good commit messages. "PR message" and "commit message" are the same thing in Gerrit; there's no duplication, and information about a change can be seen in regular commit history. Gerrit enforces good commit hygien...

SSH Tuning Add these lines to your ~/.ssh/config: Host gerrit.lix.systems User YOUR_GERRIT_USERNAME Port 2022 # Keep sessions open for a bit in the background to make connections faster: ControlMaster auto ControlPath /tmp/ssh-%r@%h:%p ...

If you feel confident in your Gerrit-fu, this page is for you. Perhaps you've already noticed how Gerrit brings a few good improvements to the workflow just based on the commit-centric design. Now we are getting to the really cool stuff: Gerrit-specific featur...

This page lists easy contributions to do without additional context. Perfect to do on a quiet weekend by yourself! The page is free to edit, so if you've solved one of the issues, or concluded that it's not really easy to drive-by at all - feel free to remove ...