NixOS 20.09 GO NO-GO Meeting.md

NixOS 20.09 GO / NO-GO Meeting

Sounds so good you won't believe it.

tags: Meeting

:::info

• Meeting Link: https://meet.jit.si/GoNightingaleGo
• Date: Oct 9, 2020 3:00 PM (EDT)
• Agenda

1. Intentions
2. Roll Call (soundcheck)
3. Blocker Review 40min
   • Review Release Notes 10min
4. GO / NO-GO Decision 5min
5. Setting the goal date 5min

• Participants:**
  • Aaron Anderse (@aanderse)
  • Eelco Dolstra (@edolstra)
  • Daiderd Jordan (@LnL7)
  • Thomas Tuegel (@ttuegel)
• Release Managers:
  • Jon Ringer (@jonringer)
  • WORLDofPEACE (@worldofpeace)
• Contact Information:
  • @jonringer
    • github: @jonringer
    • freenode irc nick: jonringer
    • email: jonringer117@gmail.com
  • @worldofpeace:
    • matrix handle: @worldofpeace:matrix.org
    • freenode irc nick: worldofpeace
    • github: @worldofpeace
    • email: worldofpeace@protonmail.com
• References
  • Fri Oct 9 2020 Notes (basically nothing because we forgot)

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☮️ Intentions

• A brief explanation of the intentions of the meeting

:speaking_head_in_silhouette: Roll Call

• Participants will identify what subsystems and users they are representing.

🔍 Blocker Review

• Review each listed bug and related issues and decide on priority. Make sure your bug is in this thread before the meeting.

Issues Reviewed

NixOS/nixpkgs#99648

QA for plasma should be done. Needs staging for 20.09 to be merged NixOS/nixpkgs#99621. GNOME still needs to be QA'd properly.

NixOS/nixpkgs#94011

Needs new issue, not a blocker.

NixOS/nixpkgs#84634

Fix to be committed @worldofpeace

NixOS/nixos-homepage#416

Eelco made a fix so that the endpoint would be available. https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-channel-scripts/commit/f8db1d7bf9b902086d3a2b1a77bfa4c08fac3733 Needs work.

NixOS/nixpkgs#95765

Release notes still need work. Also feedback from the marketing team and some extra proofreading. @worldofpeace mentioned that, along with Q.A of the ISO images, we need a formal Q.A team for the proofreading.

@worldofpeace decided outside the meeting to make an issue to verify the release notes in vein of NixOS/nixpkgs#82777

NixOS/nixos-homepage#448

"The marketing side of the release" basically. @garbas wasn't present in the meeting so most things are yet to be determined where they are.

Work needed:

• Release announcement
• Release notes with channel-diff info?

PRs Reviewed

No PRs were reviewed this meeting.

Blocker Project

https://github.com/orgs/NixOS/projects/4

Quick links

20.09 milestone

Bugs as "severity.blocker" in milestone

PRs as "severity.blocker" in milestone

🎯 GO / NO-GO Decision

NO-GO

There is still work that needs to be done. Though we're very close to being ready for a release.

📆 Setting the goal date

Because NixCon is starting next Friday @worldofpeace will be unavailable (they're mc), and we wouldn't want to conflict with a community event like this.

The options we discussed

• make another when2meet to talk again after that Friday

This is going to delay the release even more 😦

• meet on Monday

The issue with that was we need to talk with @garbas in the meeting or we won't have anything useful to go over.

Priority

Getting in contact with @garbas some way or another.

Notes

@ttuegel mentioned an issue with the download page: NixOS/nixos-homepage#613

An easy one.