[Nix-dev] Nix Policy Documentation

[Florian Friesdorf]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:02:26 +0200, Florian Friesdorf <flo at chaoflow.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Shea,
> 
> first of all: thank you very much for getting this started!
> 
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 09:13:31 -0400, Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> wrote:
> > So now to my first two questions:
> > 
> > 	1. Does anyone have any suggestions for other policy documents that I could model this work after?
> > 	2. Which subjects would you like to see covered in the document?
> 
> - How do we support sudo / what is the supported usage of sudo
>   (currently under discussion).
> 
> - When to create a pull request / when not - common sense with examples.
>   When to merge a pull request / when to just apply it's patches.
> 
> - Where to put new packages / how is all-packages sorted

- How much magic is good / bad in a nix expression and when to generate
  the nix file using for example a template (see still open discussion)

In order to put them somewhere, I would also add a section with items we
so far could not achieve consens on, with distilled conflicting
opinions.

Let me know if I can help.

I'd appreciate restructured text as format and a git repo somewhere, but
am open for other things. I don't like weird markup syntaxes, most wikis
are using.

> If some of this is already documented somewhere, I think it should be
> moved into a policy document. And thinking of it, the policy document
> should be a section of the manual.
> 
> regards
> florian
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