NixOS 20.09 GO / NO-GO Meeting

Sounds so good you won't believe it.

tags: Meeting

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Intentions

• A brief explanation of the intentions of the meeting

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Roll Call

• Participants will identify what subsystems and users they are representing.

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Blocker Review

• Review each listed bug and related issues and decide on priority. Make sure your bug is in this thread before the meeting.

Issues Reviewed

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/99648

QA for plasma should be done. Needs staging for 20.09 to be merged https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/99621.
GNOME still needs to be QA'd properly.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/94011

Needs new issue, not a blocker.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/84634

Fix to be committed @worldofpeace

https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/issues/416

Eelco made a fix so that the endpoint would be available.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-channel-scripts/commit/f8db1d7bf9b902086d3a2b1a77bfa4c08fac3733
Needs work.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/95765

Release notes still need work.
Also feedback from the marketing team and some extra proofreading. @worldofpeace mentioned that, along with Q.A of the ISO images, we need a formal Q.A team for the proofreading.

@worldofpeace decided outside the meeting to make an issue to verify the release notes in vein of https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/82777

https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/issues/448

"The marketing side of the release" basically.
@garbas wasn't present in the meeting so most things are yet to be determined where they are.

Work needed:

• Release announcement
• Release notes with channel-diff info?

PRs Reviewed

No PRs were reviewed this meeting.

Blocker Project

https://github.com/orgs/NixOS/projects/4

Quick links

20.09 milestone

Bugs as "severity.blocker" in milestone

PRs as "severity.blocker" in milestone

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GO / NO-GO Decision

NO-GO

There is still work that needs to be done.
Though we're very close to being ready for a release.

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Setting the goal date

Because NixCon is starting next Friday @worldofpeace will be unavailable (they're mc), and we wouldn't want to conflict with a community event like this.

The options we discussed

• make another when2meet to talk again after that Friday

This is going to delay the release even more

• meet on Monday

The issue with that was we need to talk with @garbas in the meeting or we won't have anything useful to go over.

Priority

Getting in contact with @garbas some way or another.

Notes

@ttuegel mentioned an issue with the download page:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/issues/613

An easy one.