meta/meeting-notes/2024-03-01_nixops_initial_location.md

title	attendees
NixOps Initial location	Robert Koen Théophane

How/where do we develop NixOps4?

• Initial idea was to just develop it in the NixOS/nixops repository

• Community members generally against that

  • The previous iterations of NixOps didn't hold their promises
  • Now NixOps still appears like the way-to-go for NixOS deployments, while it's generally not a good solution. → Bad impression of the Nix project as a whole
  • Fear that a new version will not be successful either, and just increase the problem.

• Possible solutions:

  • Give the project another name to reduce the confusion
    • Probably won't help that much
  • Use nix-community as an incubator
    • This is what the organisation is made for
    • Wouldn't bring nearly as much visibility as the NixOS org though, while still adding constraints to the development
  • Develop it internally and then donate it to the community?
    • Can make a big bang once we announce it, will give leverage to move it to the NixOS org
    • Most likely solution
    • Roberth would still like to have it on GitHub for convenience for contributors

• Decision:

  • Work in a dedicated NixOps4 GitHub org
  • Mirror the repository (with metadata?) to https://git.fediversity.eu
  • Make the project LGPL to conform with the original NixOps licence