Contributing to Nixpkgs, NixVim with Gaétan Lepage

Pre-roll transcript:Before you is an episode of the Full Time Nix podcast.For silence skipping and other useful features consider using a podcast app.---https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits?author=GaetanLepagehttps://github.com/nix-community/nixvimhttps://ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr/enhttps://github.com/nix-community/nixvim/commits?author=traxyshttps://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/unstable/#pythonhttps://nix.dev/guides/recipes/python-environment.htmlhttps://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Pythonhttps://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/00c24cc9cabab1bb8828311a670242ac80dd2ac5/pkgs/development/python-modules/torchhttps://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/JAXhttps://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/00c24cc9cabab1bb8828311a670242ac80dd2ac5/pkgs/development/python-modules/jaxhttps://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Tensorflowhttps://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/00c24cc9cabab1bb8828311a670242ac80dd2ac5/pkgs/development/python-modules/tensorflowhttps://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/00c24cc9cabab1bb8828311a670242ac80dd2ac5/pkgs/development/python-modules/protobufhttps://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/157398https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/166https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/140Some recent contributions by Gaétanhttps://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/362844https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/363751https://github.com/Mic92/nixpkgs-review/pull/440https://github.com/NixOS/nixfmthttps://github.com/nix-community/nix-inithttps://github.com/ekala-projecthttps://github.com/jonringerhttps://github.com/nrdxphttps://github.com/nix-community/nixvimhttps://github.com/nix-community/home-managerPedro Alveshttps://github.com/pta2002https://github.com/traxyshttps://github.com/MattSturgeonhttps://github.com/khanelimanhttps://github.com/nix-community/nixvim/graphs/contributorsNixvim: Configure Neovim with the power of Nix (NeovimConf 2023): https://youtu.be/GOe0C7Qtypk?si=T9gd0evaS8W3HvG-```nix run github:mightyiam/infra#nixvim```https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvimhttps://github.com/nvim-neorocks/lz.nGenerated chapters:00:00 Introduction to the Podcast and Guest06:15 Understanding NixOS Use Cases11:53 The Contribution Process Explained25:22 Nixpkgs Review Tool and CI Challenges34:26 Infrastructure and CI Limitations38:37 Transitioning to GitHub Actions45:07 Multi-System Evaluation Explained50:32 Contributions to Python Packages58:08 Challenges in Nix Packages01:02:27 Recent Progress in Nixpkgs01:07:53 NixVim Features and Benefits01:11:22 Gaétan's Involvement in NixVim01:19:33 NixVim: Configuration vs Distribution01:23:44 NixVim Options and Flexibility01:26:27 Plugin Management in NixVim01:29:27 Settings and Configuration Options01:32:06 Keeping Up with Plugin Changes01:37:24 User Contributions and Community Engagement01:44:13 Future Perspectives for NixVim ---Nixcademy ad transcript:Statistically speaking, Nix is a novel technology.As such, adoption comes at an immediate cost of productivity.Team members who know Nix find themselves preoccupied providing supportand the emergence of anti-patterns adds technical debt.What's worse; morale is affected.But, with training, these costs can be all but elimitated.Founded by my friend and mentor Jacek Galowicz,Nixcademy have brought hundreds of team members up to speed with Nix.It's what they do.So, liberate your Nix experts,prevent technical debtand get on top of Nix and back to work better and sooner.Visit nixcademy.com.Jacek tells me that most Nixcademy clients returned their investment in training in under three months.They also provide free educational content that I recommend and a newsletter that I subscribe to.nixcademy.com.Determinate Nix ad transcript:You may be a huge Nixer, seeking to apply it to everything at work.But — security, compliance, and scale.Enter Determinate Nix.It is the Nix that powers our systems.But with the governance, stability, and features to back an enterprise Nixer.Such as:- Parallel evaluation- Out of the box native Linux builder on macOS- Lazy trees- Automatic certificate handling- First-class mobile device managementAnd the list goes on.Visit determinate.systems to find out how Nixers in charge of critical infrasuch as finance and defense turn deterministic fantasy into reproducible reality.determinate.systemsPost-roll transcript:For past and future episodes search “Full Time Nix” on a podcast app or visit fulltimenix.com.For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.