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&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p class="first"&gt;&lt;a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/44439"&gt;RFC: Use meta.tests to link from packages to the tests that test them&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Aims to improve test discovery in nixpkgs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;ul class="simple"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="reference external" href="http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2018/08/automating-mendix-application.html"&gt;How to deploy Mendix applications with Nix/NixOS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p class="first"&gt;&lt;a class="reference external" href="http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2018/07/layered-build-function-abstractions-for.html"&gt;Layered build function abstractions for building Nix packages&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;An elaborate blog post that composes the stdenv.mkDerivation {} abstraction
function from scratch by using a layered approach.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p class="first"&gt;&lt;a class="reference external" href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/timeouts-nix-ci-20643198"&gt;OfBorg update&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Build time-outs, push-button deploys, monitoring transparency, and more.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p class="first"&gt;&lt;a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/30"&gt;RFC 30: Formalize review workflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A proposal for a new review workflow based on a set of pull-request states
(needs:review, needs:work). It is intended to help reviewers and contributors
get PRs merged quicker and reduce likelihood of PRs getting lost. It also
greatly increases the value of non-commiter reviews.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p class="first"&gt;&lt;a class="reference external" href="https://hackage.haskell.org/package/libnix-0.2.0.1"&gt;libnix-haskell 0.2.0.1 released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;libnix provides a nicely typed wrapper around the nix command line (for parsing,
instantiating and realizing). It also provides wrappers for the nix-prefetch-url
and nix-prefetch-git.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;You can help too! Comment on the &lt;a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-weekly/pulls"&gt;pull request&lt;/a&gt; for the next edition
or look at the &lt;a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-weekly/issues"&gt;issue tracker&lt;/a&gt; to add other improvements.&lt;/p&gt;
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