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 Arian | Hey I have excellent news. Systemd 260 explicitly adds support for unicode in release names. I think this means animals with non-latin characters is something we should do again!
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| h0nig2k | Hi, is a timeline for 26.05 expected to arrive in the next 1-2 weeks? I would appreciate at least a rough timeline for our own planning. Thank you | 13:20:43 |
 Vladimír Čunát | I'd think that the timeline will be roughly the same as for 25.11 (shifted by 6 months). | 13:21:51 |
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| Arian | https://nixos.github.io/release-wiki/Release-Process.html | 21:04:34 |
 dish [Fox/It/She] | can nodePackages being removed be considered a release highlight for 26.05? | 22:07:42 |
| dish [Fox/It/She] | not sure what the criteria are for that section, if any, but would like to highlight it as it's been a maintainance burden for a while | 22:08:02 |
 emily | probably best to go in the breaking changes section if anything, it's pretty low-impact for users | 22:08:30 |
| emily | (not to diminish the achievement from a maintenance PoV) | 22:08:42 |
| emily | I suppose it means dropping node2nix which could be worth a highlight | 22:09:04 |
 Aaron Hall | it's going to break my config (I'll probably just comment it out until I figure out what I'm supposed to do instead) - why isn't it marked deprecated and warning users? | 22:10:29 |
| dish [Fox/It/She] | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
I suppose it means dropping node2nix which could be worth a highlight yeah node2nix is unpackagable with the regular tooling since it doesnt have a package-lock.json in its upstream repo 🥴 | 22:10:42 |
| emily | things don't generally get a deprecation cycle when they're being hard removed | 22:11:21 |
| emily | the beta period, month overlap in support, etc. are intended for validating your setups for a new release | 22:11:42 |
| dish [Fox/It/She] | In reply to @aaronchallmba:matrix.org
it's going to break my config (I'll probably just comment it out until I figure out what I'm supposed to do instead) - why isn't it marked deprecated and warning users? Fwiw, individual packages that were being removed got aliases added for them as they were removed. There maybe should have been warnings on instantiation for other packages, but at this point I just want to be done with it. It's a shambling corpse that makes everyone's lives harder >.> | 22:12:35 |
| dish [Fox/It/She] | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
I suppose it means dropping node2nix which could be worth a highlight I'll just mention that node2nix has been dropped in the release note about nodePackages. | 22:13:59 |
| emily | yeah, distinguishing between throw aliases and warnings here | 22:14:01 |
| emily | especially since that would involve backporting warnings to stable which would be weird for multiplereasons | 22:14:22 |
| Aaron Hall | What should I do here?:
#### Node and Javascript:
nodejs
deno
] ++ (with nodePackages; [
npm
typescript
typescript-language-server
] ++.
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