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NixOS Ocean Sprint 2023 Report

Participants' summary:

  • Created pydev, a flake-parts module to setup an opinionated development environment for working on Python packages.
  • Julien, Linus and Ryan found a way to debug systemd running in initrd. They later gave a talk about it too.
  • Lassulus and Mic92 created the nixpkgs-merge-bot.
  • Devenv got a lot of improvements
  • Tvix got more features
  • NixOS Binary cache project (Which Mercury also sponsored)
  • Inventory dumps of S3 bucket to find what is in there
  • Lots of governance discussions
  • Tomberek worked on Nix performance optimizations
  • TPM/Yubikey support in sops-nix
  • Scraping Nixpkgs Metadata (Due to sanctions programmes deleting PRs)
  • Tomberek worked on string refactoring in Nix
  • Release note generator
  • NixOS Tst framework improvements
    • Support for QMP API (Qemu Machine API)
  • Worked on using ComposeFS for atomic /etc updates without perl
  • Work on plans for Perllless NixOS
  • Make NixOS VM tests easier to run on MAcOS
  • Worked on the Nix “C-c” hangs issue
  • Lots of documentation fixes
  • Groundwork for cudaPackages.writeGpuTestPython

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