| 14 Sep 2025 |
 dish [Fox/It/She] | * When will the "Let's have a great release cycle"/cycle announcement posts go out for 25.11? Based on my rough estimates they're released around the middle of the month two before the cycle(so around now in september for a mid-nov release). Just want to make sure everything's working smoothly, and to see if there's anything I can do as a release editor atm | 19:43:32 |
 leona | We're preparing a schedule atm that we will publish in the next few days. Then we can have a meeting too (I still have one exam on tuesday, so unfortunately i'm somewhat busy :/) | 20:23:55 |
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| 17 Sep 2025 |
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| 18 Sep 2025 |
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| ners | Hey everyone! Thanks for the announcement.
I have a bit of a predicament: I organise ZHF hackathons before every release (https://zurich.nix.ug/), and sadly the venue we use could only offer us 29-30 November 2025 for this cycle.
This falls out of the proposed ZHF campaign, so it'll be quite a miserable ZHF.
I know it's a long-shot, but would there be any chance of moving the release forward a week? | 08:32:05 |
| ners | * Hey everyone! Thanks for the announcement.
I have a bit of a predicament: I organise ZHF hackathons before every release (https://zurich.nix.ug/), and sadly the venue we use could only offer us 29-30 November 2025 for this cycle.
This falls out of the proposed ZHF campaign, so it'll be quite a miserable ZHF.
I know it's a long-shot, but would there be any chance of moving the release forward a week so we have a chance to participate? | 08:32:11 |
| 22 Sep 2025 |
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| 23 Sep 2025 |
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| john-rodewald | Hi everybody. Thanks a lot for taking care of this cycle's planning. 🙌 Have you maybe had a chance to discuss the date request above? Do you think it's feasible at all? | 08:05:21 |
 vcunat | I can't speak for the 25.11 team, but it's called .11 for November, so if you still do ZHF on the last of November, you can't manage to release during November. | 08:08:02 |
| vcunat | It's no huge deal to release later (I'd say); it happens sometimes that it gets delayed from the plans by a week or two and thus gets into the next month. | 08:09:23 |
| vcunat | But to plan in advance that we won't make it in November - sounds unusual to me. | 08:09:50 |
| leona | I'd personally really like to have a week to spare, just because for me it's cool to actually release in the month we planned for and also with winter holidays, I think it's good to leave people a week or two more to update their systems before everyone is on vacation. | 08:11:01 |
| vcunat | Either way, lots of failures on Hydra tend to remain even on the day of release. | 08:11:01 |
| vcunat | * Either way, lots of failures on Hydra tend to remain even on the day of release, so you'll surely be able to find some work to do. | 08:11:30 |
| leona | I see no problem for you fixing build issues after the release tho. Backports are quite possible | 08:11:37 |
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| 24 Sep 2025 |
| john-rodewald | In reply to @ners:nixos.dev
Hey everyone! Thanks for the announcement.
I have a bit of a predicament: I organise ZHF hackathons before every release (https://zurich.nix.ug/), and sadly the venue we use could only offer us 29-30 November 2025 for this cycle.
This falls out of the proposed ZHF campaign, so it'll be quite a miserable ZHF.
I know it's a long-shot, but would there be any chance of moving the release forward a week? We found a different solution. No more need to change around any release dates. :) | 19:00:10 |
| 26 Sep 2025 |
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| 28 Sep 2025 |
| tornax | Hi! May I ask if the new crowdsec module may not be added to stable for the next release (yet) please? It feels like as if there is still some work to do (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/446307). So I'd like to keep its config as unstable for the time being. | 19:08:33 |
| tornax | * Hi! May I ask if the new crowdsec module may not be added to stable for the next release (yet) please (just in case if that's going to happen)? It feels like as if there is still some work to do (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/446307). So I'd like to keep its config as unstable for the time being. | 19:08:55 |
| vcunat | If you keep the PR as draft until the 25.11 fork-off happens... | 19:54:49 |
| 29 Sep 2025 |
 Sandro 🐧 | It is technically not possible to exclude the module from the release unless we remove it again.
But I don't see a problem backporting the fix PR whenever it is ready. | 13:25:01 |
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| leona | This depends a bit on how the fix PR actually works. For it to be backportable, it would be good to allow for a seamless transition | 15:39:02 |
| leona | but also it's correct what Sandro said, that there is no technical possibility to remove the module from the release. We could ofc remove the module directly after branch-off, but this also feels a bit strange | 15:39:43 |
