Call for content: 2018/06

[domenkozar]

Hi all,

please add Nix news item in form of:

- Example news item title `with link`_

  (optional) News item description

.. _`with link`: http://example.com

either as a comment or PR against master branch. Thank you <3

[ryantm]

https://grahamc.com/blog/an-epyc-nixos-build-farm

[ryantm]

http://blog.shealevy.com/2018/08/05/understanding-nix's-string-context/

[thoughtpolice]

Basically everything in NixOS/nixpkgs#38698 -- I'l try to post a summary soon.

[domenkozar]

RFC NixOS/nixpkgs#44196

[domenkozar]

ETA lang nix packages https://github.com/eta-lang/eta-nix/tree/etaPackages

[grahamc]

https://grahamc.com/blog/an-epyc-nixos-build-farm

Graham explores and benchmarks an AMD EPYC build server against a differently incredible build server, finding the EPYC's builds are much faster across the board.

[Ekleog]

RFC NixOS/nixpkgs#44439

[svanderburg]

Two blog posts:

How to deploy Mendix applications with Nix/NixOS: http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2018/08/automating-mendix-application.html

An elaborate blog post that composes the stdenv.mkDerivation {} abstraction function from scratch by using a layered approach: http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2018/07/layered-build-function-abstractions-for.html

[grahamc]

An OfBorg update! https://www.patreon.com/posts/timeouts-nix-ci-20643198 build time-outs, push-button deploys, monitoring transparency, and more!

[domenkozar]

Moving content to next week.

[timokau]

RFC 30: NixOS/rfcs#30

A proposal for a new review workflow based on a set of pull-request states (needs:review, needs:work). It is intended to help reviewers and contributors get PRs merged quicker and reduce likelihood of PRs getting lost. It also greatly increases the value of non-commiter reviews.

[Profpatsch]

libnix-haskell released: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/libnix-0.2.0.1

libnix provides a nicely typed wrapper around the nix command line (for parsing, instantiating and realizing). It also provides wrappers for the nix-prefetch-url and nix-prefetch-git.

[domenkozar]

Thank you all :) Next week: #62

[timokau]

Thank you!