User:Profpatsch

• IRC: Profpatsch (freenode, oftc, …)
• Github: https://github.com/Profpatsch

Projects

• yarn2nix: converting yarn.lock files to build npm projects with nix
• Package testing: an infrastructure to test nix derivations (without the need of VM tests)
  • I gave a talk about that on the 2017 NixCon
• Building minimal OCI/docker containers from nixpkgs, see Workgroup:Container

Ideas

nixpkgs support matrix

Note: grahamc mentioned (via peti) that SUSE uses a ring-0, ring-1, … naming for the different support levels, which we should adopt to not introduce any more confusion in nix(pkgs/OS) naming.

	x86_64	glibc	darwin	armv7	musl
Core	full	full	full	full	support
Extended Core	full	full	support	support	ask
Supported	support	support	support	support	ask
Maintained	support	ask	ask	ask	ask
Unmaintained	none	none	none	none	none

Support Levels:

• full: always tested, up-to-date, backported and release blocker
• support: tested and actively maintained, backported
• ask: guarantees given depend on the maintainer and package
  • adding/re-purposing meta attributes to indicate guarantees might be a good idea
• none: not maintained (but might still be useful and is therefore not deleted)

Support Tiers:

• Core: Small (low three-digit) number of packages maintained by active core team
• Extended Core: less vital packages maintained by active maintainers
  • About the same level as Archlinux core packages
  • Stuff like e.g. KDE goes here
• Supported: actively maintained by wider community, (automatically) tested on core systems [, backported]
• Maintained: maintained, probably only manually tested on the maintainer’s system
• Unmaintained: no maintainer, might not be on the newest version or broken because of updated dependencies

The MAINTAINERS file of the Linux kernel has the following categories:

S: Status, one of the following:
  Supported:	Someone is actually paid to look after this.
  Maintained:	Someone actually looks after it.
  Odd Fixes:	It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do
  much other than throw the odd patch in. See below..
  Orphan:	No current maintainer [but maybe you could take the
  role as you write your new code].
  Obsolete:	Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means
  it has been replaced by a better system and you
  should be using that.

Especially the “there’s somebody paid to maintain this subsystem” label is an idea we should incorporate.