| 21 May 2025 |
 emily | anyway sorry for the nitpicking! | 07:45:02 |
|  o_________o joined the room. | 08:17:39 |
 Arian | The journald tests should be fixed 🌅 | 08:23:45 |
 jficz | stupid question, but why a tag instead of a branch? Is the tag moved when new patches come in? | 09:14:51 |
| emily | the tag is just for the fixed states ("when 25.05 was first branched off from master", "when we declared 25.05 fully released") | 09:15:14 |
| emily | * the tags are just for the fixed states ("when 25.05 was first branched off from master", "when we declared 25.05 fully released") | 09:15:19 |
| emily | the branch people should actually use is nixos-25.05 or nixos-25.05-small or nixpkgs-25.05-darwin (and changes get merged into release-25.05 which flows into those) | 09:15:39 |
| jficz | so how does one test the beta then? :) | 09:15:40 |
 Grimmauld (any/all) | you use the channel/branch, not the tag for that | 09:15:56 |
| emily | you can run nixos-25.05 now, it's the same channel branch the final release will be on | 09:15:57 |
| jficz | right 🤦♂️ I'm overthinking too much | 09:16:17 |
| emily | don't worry, everyone is confused by the release process :P | 09:18:56 |
| Grimmauld (any/all) | including the release managers ^^ | 09:22:27 |
| emily | sometimes especially 😆 | 09:24:06 |
 WeetHet | What are the requirements for becoming a release manager? | 10:56:15 |
| WeetHet changed their profile picture. | 10:59:13 |
 leona | Primarily being a committer. Some time after cleanup, there will be a call for the new release manager. Then it’s up to the current release manager to choose who they think is the right person for the job | 11:02:29 |
|  maralorn joined the room. | 18:33:23 |
| maralorn | I have a last minute addition to the release notes. Do I need to consider anything special? Asking partially since this is affecting the "highlights" section. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/409505 | 18:35:46 |
| leona | that's okay | 18:36:12 |
| leona | just merge to master and backport to 25.05 | 18:36:17 |
 raf | Reminds me, I've bumped nh from 3.6.0 to 4.0.x, which made changes to a variable used by it; since the NixOS module handles setting the correct variable, should I be adding this to the release notes or would it be redundant | 18:38:11 |
| leona | i think this is internal enough so that it's only relevant for the Nixpkgs release notes if at all | 18:38:00 |
| raf | I'll open a PR to update the Nixpkgs release notes, it feels a litte off not mentioning it since the old variable is set to be deprecated... eventually. Cheers. | 18:40:44 |
| emily | maybe good to mention it's a guideline going forward rather than a one-off event? | 18:40:34 |
| emily | I guess if there aren't docs in the manual for it yet you can just link the Discourse post | 18:40:42 |
| emily | (just to prepare users for future routine drops) | 18:40:53 |
| maralorn | like this? | 18:47:27 |
| emily | LGTM :) | 18:50:14 |
 Winter | was this supposed to contain a link? | 18:50:46 |
