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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
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...
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Date: Participants: Topic: Conclusion / Action items Meeting notes / Discussion
2025-06-27 Wiki work
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
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
Logging in to CI for restarts Go via https://buildkite.com/sso/lix-project and use your Lix account.
Contributor permissions and Code Owners
One might wonder how permissions work on Lix and how one can help out with certain tasks. This is subject to ongoing governance work. This page is a summary of the current (pretty vibes-based) state of how it works. Feel free to ask questions about this in the...
Nix Resources
Lix doesn't exist in a vacuum—but instead builds atop the incredible work of dozens of NixOS community members. This page collects resources that have been recommended by members of the community. We're also currently in the process of writing brand new docume...
Lix Governance
Moved to https://lix.systems/governance/
Flakes feature freeze
The core team has decided to freeze the Flake feature set and semantics at its current point, excluding bugfixes. No new features will be added to Flakes for the time being, including (but not limited to) new input types, new features for existing fetchers and...
Debugging weird DNS resolutions inside sandbox
Run this with pasta: $ nix-build -E 'let pkgs = (import <nixpkgs> {}); in pkgs.runCommand "resolvconf" { outputHashAlgo = "sha256"; outputHashMode = "flat"; outputHash = pkgs.lib.fakeHash; } "cat /etc/resolv.conf"' Report the result to a Lix developer.
Pointer equality
Introduction This page dives into the concept of pointer equality, its role in Lix, and provides an outlook on how it is implemented and utilized. For more in-depth information, refer to the resource on https://snix.dev/docs/reference/nix-language/value-pointe...
xattrs feasibility to supplement the SQLite database model
xattrs were imagined as a way to supplement/replace the SQLite database model. Unfortunately, xattrs are not useable on all platforms we may care about and not by all filesystem our users. Additionally, we need to plan for the workload size we have, i.e. large...
Development
Everything about development on the Lix codebase, including design documents and maintenance documentation.
2026-02-11 Core team technical discussion
Date: 2026-02-11 Participants: Raito, horrors, rootile, piegames, jade, kate, Qyriad Topic: Core team discussion on technical vision and alignment alignment Conclusion / Action items @kate: suggestion, every topic we discussed above should be made into a Zu...
2026-03-11 DevX meeting
Date: 2026-03-11 Participants: piegames, Qyriad, horrors, rutile, raito (15 minutes late) Topic: Lix DevX Agenda On Doxygen Merge queue Other DevX issues folks are facing? Meeting notes / Discussion On Doxygen Objective: document the RPC protocol APIs in L...
2026-03-13 State of the Matrix
Date: 2026-03-13 Participants: piegames, Raito, hexchen, Qyriad, Topic: Community team discussion on Lix's Matrix server, space, and channels Conclusion / Action items Make a backup the current database Owner: @afnix @raito Check the PL levels are what...
2026-03-18 - Governance weekly
Date: 2026-03-18 Participants: raito, horrors, piegames, rootile, kate, Qyriad. Topic: Lix governance weekly Agenda Job channel Inactive core team members Retrospective on the 2.95 release situation Various status updates from @raito for AFNix LixCon 2026 s...