| 22 Dec 2023 |
 danielsidhion | Also when going through this, I'm starting to create issues for extra work that is either more than I can do at the moment, or is stuff that I'd try to revisit at some point. It improves either the documentation or stuff in Nixpkgs, and I think it's the sort of thing bzm3r would love to have to work on issues with very specific scope. Here are two issues I opened from my rewrite of that section:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/276033
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/276034 | 11:34:35 |
| 23 Dec 2023 |
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| 24 Dec 2023 |
 @bzzm3r:matrix.org | In reply to @danielsidhion:nixos.dev
Also when going through this, I'm starting to create issues for extra work that is either more than I can do at the moment, or is stuff that I'd try to revisit at some point. It improves either the documentation or stuff in Nixpkgs, and I think it's the sort of thing bzm3r would love to have to work on issues with very specific scope. Here are two issues I opened from my rewrite of that section:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/276033
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/276034 danielsidhion: thank you! (I'm also very glad that you did decide to ping me re: looking into these issues) | 08:26:58 |
| @bzzm3r:matrix.org | (so please feel free to continue to ping me on such stuff, both here, and on GitHub) | 08:28:52 |
| @bzzm3r:matrix.org | * (so please continue to ping me on such stuff, both here, and on GitHub) | 08:29:10 |
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| 25 Dec 2023 |
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| 26 Dec 2023 |
| danielsidhion | Also had to change a bit of content on this one, but at a way smaller scale: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/276821
When working on it, I realised the manual doesn't seem to follow a convention for shell commands and their outputs, and created the following issue to track this: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/276829
I'll put this issue on the agenda for some meeting next year, but I'm hoping it won't take long to achieve consensus. Once we have one, I can add it to my list of "things to update while I go through every file of the nixpkgs manual". | 02:03:50 |
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| 29 Dec 2023 |
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| Chris McDonough | hi folks... fyi, i submitted a PR for improving trivial builder text-related functions at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/277534 ...i'd appreciate it if someone could review it and maybe merge? | 13:05:23 |
| 30 Dec 2023 |
 asymmetric | Robert Hensing (roberth): about https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/167670#issuecomment-1872501084, do you mean that you'd like to see more documentation before this is exposed to users? | 10:54:19 |
| asymmetric | * Robert Hensing (roberth): about https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/167670#issuecomment-1872501084, do you mean that you'd like to see more documentation before this is exposed to lots users via 2023 recap? | 10:54:32 |
| asymmetric | * Robert Hensing (roberth): about https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/167670#issuecomment-1872501084, do you mean that you'd like to see more documentation before this is exposed to lots of users via 2023 recap? | 10:54:42 |
 Robert Hensing (roberth) | Just to set expectations in the recap | 10:54:44 |
| Robert Hensing (roberth) | I think it's sufficiently documented | 10:54:53 |
| Robert Hensing (roberth) | Though maybe the part about it consisting of a single derivation isn't actually | 10:55:34 |
| Robert Hensing (roberth) | hmm | 10:55:38 |
| asymmetric | Robert Hensing (roberth): afaict this is ready to be merged, do you agree? https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/277171 | 11:42:19 |
| asymmetric | if so i'll reopen and merge | 11:42:22 |
| Robert Hensing (roberth) | maybe I overreacted. The pr was probably fine | 11:43:52 |
| Chris McDonough | asymmetric: i have something of a competing PR (a bit silly) at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/277534 ... i think it atually addresses most of your comments, but likely none of Robert's | 12:17:51 |
| Chris McDonough | i think it improves on the original PR by specifying whether the derivaion produced will be a file or a directory, and demonstrates how you might use bare writeTextFile to do the job of each writeText*/writeScript*/writeShellScript* function | 12:20:16 |
| Chris McDonough | it also breaks out each function into a top-level thing | 12:20:52 |
| Chris McDonough | ah nevermind i did not notice it was already merged. i will propose another pr against master. | 12:24:47 |
| Chris McDonough | or was it? i guess he just closed it instead. | 12:29:52 |
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| 31 Dec 2023 |
 aos | Hey y'all - quick question: is there a way to build the nixpkgs manual using the provided flake? I see in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/34d3d09834b52db5da25fb6f36055f4971709ee3/flake.nix#L57-L62 that the output: htmlDocs is exposed, but I don't think it's possible to build it? I tried nix build .#htmlDocs on a local checkout of nixpkgs repo, but that doesn't work | 17:28:51 |
