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| niklaskorz | repeating my question from #staging:nixos.org here:
Is anyone from the Gnome team already working on a Gnome 50 PR? There doesn't seem to be one yet, but I'd rather double check before giving it a try myself
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| niklaskorz | And if that is not the case and you are possibly willing to let me have a try at it, is the workflow described in nonemast still up to date?
Nixpkgs GNOME maintainers have the following workflow: When an alpha of a new GNOME release is published, they use update.nix script to automatically bump all GNOME packages in Nixpkgs on the gnome branch. After that, they walk through the commits, reading the release notes and modifying the package expressions as necessary. To have clean Git history where each commit points to a non-broken tree, maintainers push fixup/squash commits. Those are then periodically integrated by rebasing with auto-squashing.
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 Alyssa Ross | I couldn't even find the gnome branch earlier | 09:46:02 |
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 winston | just FYI I think most of the work now happens on https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/501286 | 14:46:58 |
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| 16 Apr 2026 |
 hexa | https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2026/02/06/mid-life-transitions/ | 17:12:33 |
| hexa |
The folliwing is a short list of important modules where I’m roughly the sole active maintainer: [...]
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| hexa | a long and scary list | 17:13:59 |
| 17 Apr 2026 |
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| oeti | I'm curious. Does anyone know if Gnome 50 will even make it into the 26.05 stable release? The feature freeze is coming up very soon (in 10 days from now), if I'm reading this correctly: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/504935. And if not, would it be Gnome 49 for another 6 Months? How does this work? I am really new to NixOS. | 08:20:27 |
| oeti | I would like to contribute at some point in the future, but maybe not for this release. I am currently finding my way into NixOS. How could I? What are parts, that need help? | 08:34:01 |
 emily | freeze for desktop environments is later | 10:17:30 |
| emily | those are allowed to run right up to the line | 10:18:21 |
| emily | (because we align our release cycle with theirs) | 10:18:48 |
| oeti | Thanks for clarifying! that sounds less worrying now. | 10:22:13 |
| 18 Apr 2026 |
 vcunat | It was still pretty last-moment on some NixOS releases, if I remember correctly. | 08:59:17 |
