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Observability and Protocol Design

Lix contributors Design planning

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...

Replacement CLI design & Profiles

Lix contributors Design planning

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

Working Groups

Lix contributors Working in the Lix codebase

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...

2025-03-15: git.lix.systems replication broke

Lix infrastructure guide Postmortems

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...

Nix bootstrapping

Lix contributors Design planning

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

Improving IFD

Lix contributors Design planning

Discussion pad: https://pad.lix.systems/Xd5Xyt5cToyYxIv-lNdehA Further reading: https://jade.fyi/blog/the-postmodern-build-system/ pennae's idea: magic_ifd_primop = \f i -> import f >>= i # nix: importAndThen (res: <stuff>) some-ifd.outPath Observation: a...

Getting Started with Gerrit

Lix contributors Gerrit

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...

Review Flow

Lix contributors Gerrit

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...

Troubleshooting

Lix contributors Gerrit

"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...

Gerrit with Jujutsu

Lix contributors Gerrit

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...

Why Gerrit?

Lix contributors Gerrit

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...

Tips and Tricks

Lix contributors Gerrit

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 ...

Advanced Features

Lix contributors Gerrit

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...

Easy Drive-by Contributions

Lix contributors

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 ...

Related projects

Lix users

This page lists community projects that are built with, optimized for, or make specific use of Lix features. While these projects are not officially affiliated with the Lix project, we maintain this curated list to highlight tools, systems, and initiatives tha...

Debugging a stuck Lix invocation

Lix users

If you're experiencing an issue where a lix command appears to hang or make no visible progress, this page outlines multiple methods to investigate what’s going on. Step 1: Increase Verbosity Start by rerunning the Lix command with high verbosity to get a bett...

Discussion notes template

Lix contributors Discussion notes

Date: Participants: Topic: Conclusion / Action items Metting notes / Discussion

2025-06-27 Wiki work

Lix contributors Discussion notes

Date: 2025-06-27 Present: jade, piegames Topic: Information organization in the wiki and the homepage Summary: We have a mess of information in the pad system which is not well organized by quality, and it's hard to deal with it. Action items Create a new b...

2025-06-26 Lix NixOS Module

Lix contributors Discussion notes

Date: 2025-06-26 Participants: Niko, k900, piegames, Raito Topic: The current state of the Lix NixOS module (https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/nixos-module/) Conclusion / Action items piegames will reach out in Lix on main asking for volunteers Primary g...

Dealing with CI

Lix contributors Working in the Lix codebase

Logging in to CI for restarts Go via https://buildkite.com/sso/lix-project and use your Lix account.