# NixOS RFC Process
@globin
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# History
* March 2017 - established, initiated by zimbatm, teh and Moretea
* January 2019 - RFC 36
* June 2019 - RFC 43
Note:
hardly any rfcs accepted, no way of determining "accepted"<br />
36 - last nixcon hackday, long discussion, created rfc steering committee
& shepherd teams<br />
43 - rfcsc rotation
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# Teams
* RFC Steering Committee (RFCSC)
* Shepherd Team
* Shepherd Leader
Note:
Leaders! call more meetings!
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# Process
* Write and PR the RFC
* Shepherd Nomination
* Discussion
* FCP
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# Accepted RFCs
* RFC 36 - RFC Process
* RFC 39 - Unprivileged Maintainer Team
* RFC 43 - RFCSC Rotation
* RFC 44 - Disband Nix Core
* RFC 52 - Dynamic User IDs
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# Open RFCs
* RFC 0055 - Retire inactive nixpkgs committers
* RFC 0054 - Support levels and tiers
* RFC 0051 - Mark stale nixpkgs issues
* RFC 0050 - Merge bot for maintainers
* **RFC 0049 - Flakes**
* RFC 0046 - Platform Support Tiers
* RFC 0045 - Deprecating unquoted URL syntax
* RFC 0042 - NixOS settings options
* RFC 0040 - "Ret-cont" recursive Nix
* RFC 0017 - Intensional Store
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# RFCSC Nomination!
### Thread on Discourse today!
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# Links
* https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs
* https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/36 - Process
* https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/43 - RFCSC Rotation
* https://nixos.mayflower.consulting/blog/2019/08/19/nixos-rfc-process/