Balancing Contributors and Adoption in Open Source

Host: Shahar “Dawn” Or (@mightyiam)
Guest: Silvan Mosberger (@infinisil)

• fileset library 🚀
  • lib.fileset documentation
  • Old, difficult ways: builtins.path and lib.cleanSourceWith
• Flakes
  • RFC 0136: “A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally”
  • CLI stabilization tracking issue
  • builtins.fetchTree experimental feature documentation
  • Input types supported by builtins.fetchTree
  • Fundraising for the documentation team
  • RFC 0049: Initial proposal for flakes
• Other community happenings
  • The Nix Hour, a weekly Nix Q&A Lecture by Tweag.
  • RFC 0166: Consistent Nix formatting.
  • Nix RFC process
  • RFC Steering Committee
  • Nixpkgs Architecture Team

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