• Dhall - Year in review

• nixos-generators
  The nixos-generators project allows to take the same NixOS configuration, and generate outputs for different target formats i.e. ISO, kexec tarballs, qemu's qcow2 format, google cloud images...

If this edition happens earlier than next thursday, RFCs 13, 17 and 39 are open for shepherd nomination.

Code archeology: 15 years ago Nix files had .fix extension. Compare original MPlayer expression, it's first rewrite and modern view

Moving to next week.

hydra-in-a-bag by @samueldr aims to provide a one-click^W command solution to running a hydra instance for development purposes.

• NixOS 19.03 feature freeze

I have a short writeup on contributing to NixOS/Nixpkgs written on Discourse. The idea is to make it easier for new users to contribute. You can read it here:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/call-for-proofreaders-and-beta-testers-for-19-03/1980

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundation-participating-in-eus-next-generation-internet-initiative/2011

https://r13y.com/

https://www.tweag.io/posts/2019-02-06-mapping-open-source.html

The repositories of distributions such as Debian and Nixpkgs are among the largest collections of open source (and some unfree) software. They are complex systems that connect and organize many interdependent packages. In this blog post we try to shed some light on them from the perspective of Nixpkgs, mostly with visualizations of its complete dependency.

Also: fancy graphs!

• nix is now available in debian

https://iohk.io/blog/how-we-use-nix-at-iohk/

Well it's technically a monthly :) I don't want to be a news blocker so just ship everything :)

@domenkozar could you include rfc news?

Next week once we have a curated list :)