| 26 Sep 2025 |
 Sergei Zimmerman (xokdvium) | In reply to @shine:proqqul.net
probably I could rearrange the commits. I wasn't sure how much effort to put into cleaning up the commit history because i wasn't sure if I should squash them all before merging anyways In case the in-between commits are broken then there isn’t much point to keeping those separate. Also the diff is small enough | 16:58:45 |
 John Ericson | I don't know how much things can/should be squashed, I'll leave that to sergei :), but yeah anything that will be squashed away of course don't worry about the history | 16:59:06 |
 Taeer Bar-Yam | (i'm aware the tests are failing btw. looking into it) | 17:08:46 |
 Mic92 | Taeer Bar-Yam: btw. don't mind too much, but in general you can avoid "formatting" commands, by using git-absorb: https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb | 18:25:51 |
| Mic92 | * Taeer Bar-Yam: btw. don't mind too much, but in general you can avoid "formatting" commits, by using git-absorb: https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb | 18:25:59 |
| Taeer Bar-Yam | Ah, thanks for the tip! I'll try to look into it soon. Though I'm kind of wary of stuff that is automagical with my git history 😅 | 20:09:03 |
 magic_rb | It says it will only create fixup commits by default so you can review them | 20:10:29 |
| Taeer Bar-Yam | oh i see. that's much better | 20:10:55 |
| 27 Sep 2025 |
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| @meltymeli:catgirl.cloud | Hi. I'm on Void Linux. I really like how Nix handles configuration, but am worried I have to hop to get the full experience. Is this the case? | 11:01:25 |
 K900 | The full experience being full system config, yes | 11:04:53 |
| K900 | Also wrong room kinda | 11:04:57 |
| K900 | You probably want #users:nixos.org | 11:05:05 |
| @meltymeli:catgirl.cloud | Thank you. Yes meaning I have to hop? | 11:06:22 |
| K900 | Yes meaning you have to run NixOS | 11:06:41 |
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| John Ericson | https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14063 is ready for review | 19:13:31 |
| John Ericson | fixed the GCC only issues | 19:13:36 |
| John Ericson | Sergei Zimmerman (xokdvium): so it occured ot me that we can (de)serialize entire dummy stores to JSON | 21:10:36 |
| John Ericson | and this is, naturally, the grand culmination of my JSON issue | 21:10:53 |
| John Ericson | :) | 21:10:54 |
| 28 Sep 2025 |
| John Ericson | Martin Schwaighofer: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/13942 JSON for the entire dummy store | 06:59:02 |
| John Ericson | this will hopefully allow us to unit the the substitutor | 06:59:21 |
| John Ericson | * this will hopefully allow us to unit the the real substitutor | 06:59:29 |
| John Ericson | and show how "build" (mocked up insertions) caching works | 06:59:44 |
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| bit-aloo | Hey everyone! Hope this is the right channel for asking. I've been using nix at work and understand its basics. I would love to dive deeper and contribute meaningfully to the project. It would be awesome if someone could guide me in which direction or resources to look for. | 17:27:51 |
 WeetHet | If you want to contribute to nix the package manager (which I'm really not sure you want to if you only understand the basics), you can look at the contributing guide here:
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
If you don't want to work with the (not so great) C++ code of nix the package manager you can go and contribute to nixpkgs:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
You can help with fixing reproducibility of a package, add a new one, write a nixos module for a missing program/service or work on more fundamental stuff like the stdenv or any of the language ecosystems. Personally, these two are interesting for me, but you might wanna search yourself:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/334195
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/333702
If you don't want to write nix either, there are outside issues like
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/424345
decentralized binary caching, etc
You can also help around on discourse or in #users:nixos.org
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