oops I forgot the url in my last message https://gist.github.com/edsu/855230f4754d6d11844d
maybe -q will do the trick? http://edsu.github.io/twtxt/config.txt
@ruebot did you add a post_tweet_hook like this? http://edsu.github.io/twtxt/config.txt
Stdenv updates branch merged into master
The stdenv-updates branch has\⨠been merged into the master branch of Nixpkgs. The main
change are that brings is that Nixpkgs/NixOS are now based on
GCC 4.8 and Glibc 2.18, in addition to many smaller updates. â Read more
NixOS sources merged into Nixpkgs
The NixOS Git tree has been merged into the Nixpkgs tree in
order to simplify development. The sources now live in the nixos\⨠subdirectory of the Nixpkgs repository on GitHub. See the
announcement
for more information. â Read more
PhD thesis: A Reference Architecture for Distributed Software Deployment
Today Sander van\⨠der Burg successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled A\⨠Reference Architecture for Distributed Software\⨠Deployment! It describes (among other things) [Disnix](https://github.com/s ⌠â Read more
Hydra talk at Inria
Ludovic Courtès gave a talk on Hydra at Inria (which has
its own Hydra instance for building Inria software) entitled âHydra:\⨠continuous integration for demanding peopleâ. â Read more
Moving to GitHub
The NixOS project is (slowly) migrating from Subversion to Git!
The master repositories will be hosted in the NixOS organization on GitHub. For the moment, just a
few subprojects have been migrated, such as Hydra and Charon. Thanks to
Tianyi Cui for donating the NixOS GitHub organization. â Read more
ISSRE paper on NixOS-based system testing
The paper âAutomating System\⨠Tests Using Declarative Virtual Machinesâ (by Sander van der
Burg and Eelco Dolstra) has been accepted for presentation at
the 21st IEEE International\⨠Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2010).
It describes how system tests with complex requirements on the
en ⌠â Read more
Hydra
Nix
and NixOS
releases are now built in Hydra, the new Nix-based
continuous build system. Hydra replaces our old Nix-based\⨠build farm, which will be phased out soon. There are
several advantages over the old build farm: the build tasks for
a project are scheduled and published separat ⌠â Read more
DisNix paper accepted at HotSWUp
The paper âAtomic Upgrading of Distributed Systemsâ (by Sander
van der Burg, Eelco Dolstra and Merijn de Jonge) has been
accepted for presentation at the First ACM Workshop on Hot\â¨Topics in Software Upgrades (HotSWUp). A draft\â¨of the paper is available. It describes Sanderâs masterâs
thesis research on DisNix, an extension ⌠â Read more
LDTA 2008 paper
Eelco Dolstra presented the paper âMaximal\â¨Laziness â An Efficient Interpretation Technique for Purely\â¨Functional DSLsâ at 8th\â¨Workshop on Language\â¨Description, Tools and Applications (LDTA 2008). Itâs about
caching of evaluation results in the Nix expression evaluator as
a technique to make a simple term-rewriting evaluator efficient.
Slides are [here](h ⌠â Read more
HotOS paper on NixOS
Eelco Dolstra presented the paper Purely\â¨Functional System\â¨Configuration Management at the 11th Workshop on\â¨Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XI). It gives an
overview of the ideas behind NixOS. The
slides
are also available. â Read more
PhD thesis defended
Eelco Dolstra
defended his PhD\⨠thesis on the purely functional deployment model. â Read more