decide what is an official project in the Nix ecosystem

[fricklerhandwerk]

There is no clear definition of what firmly belongs to the Nix ecosystem, what is "official" or merely "associated", and what is considered third-party.

Tasks

• decide on criteria
• define processes for state transitions
• take inventory
• update status

Proposal

1. Mentioned (third party): Code that works and solves a known problem
2. Endorsed (third party): Significant user base; software is usable and approachable (don't have to read the code to work with it)
3. Recommended (community project): Large user base; maintained and accepting contributions
4. Official: Vital to the ecosystem; actively developed by at least two people and with enough resources in the long run; high standards of code quality, collaboration, and documentation

[fricklerhandwerk]

• @infinisil at the point where "everyone" relies on it, it should be made official
• @domenkozar this should be a topic for the board
  • @fricklerhandwerk agree. does the board have the capacity to deal with that and decide in a reasonable amount of time?
    • @domenkozar we have a lot in the backlog, currently focusing on administrative issues such as having and accountant and secretary
      • @fricklerhandwerk great to hear!
      • still need a transparent way to keep track of board work, e.g. project board

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[fricklerhandwerk]

@edolstra this is for the board to answer, could you please transfer it to NixOS/nixos-foundation?

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[infinisil]

This is now addressed with the constitution, which says that:

[The SC is responsible for] Management of Official Resources:

• Decide which resources are considered official
• ...
• As of the establishment of the SC, official resources and access details are listed in the [org] repository.

So https://github.com/NixOS/org defines what is official and can be amended by the SC (like this)