meta/meeting-notes/2025-07-22 developer sync.md

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Attendees: @kiara @fricklerhandwerk @niols

  • CI still bad: checkout action flaky, secrets exposed to all contributors
    • We discussed switching to Gerrit (for review suggestions) and buildbot-nix (for CI)
    • It will be a lot of effort, but it's already a lot of effort and we better spend it now than when more people join the project
    • Chances are this will solve the secrets issue automatically
  • Regressions in Proxmox provisioning
    • needs tests and docs, proxmox-provision.sh was written ad hoc beginning of the year
    • we haven't been exercising our knowledge of provisioning since
    • would be nice to rewrite in Python, also as a way to turn it into a NixOps4 resource provider
  • NixOps4 future:
    • @roberth signaled the path to nested deployments may not be all that long
    • @fricklerhandwerk: currently our use case is perfectly suited by the state of affairs (especially having everything one language), but eventually we'll need something more powerful
    • @niols: dry run threatens to be a can of worms with nested deployments
      • @fricklerhandwerk: we'd need to mock away everything, we don't have a programming pattern for that yet (sigh)
      • @niols: for now we expose only the NixOS configurations to get evaluated separately
  • @kiara kept dabbling at the data model, fixing small issues
  • @niols will add tests to provisioning code to fix regressions from recent refactorings
    • will start refactoring infra/flake-parts.nix to remove the wild function passing