NixOS Community Oceansprint 2021 Report — Jacek Galowicz's blog

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Jacek Galowicz

A trip report from the NixOS community Oceansprint hackathon held on Lanzarote in 2021. Around 13 contributors gathered for a week-long sprint covering projects including nix.dev UX improvements, nix-casync (a deduplicated binary cache), NixOS composability optimizations, a new MakeBinaryWrapper tool, refactoring of the NixOS integration test driver from Perl to Python, enabling NixOS integration tests on macOS, community governance bootstrapping, and Cachix Deploy. The report details participants, daily schedule, social activities, and technical outcomes with links to relevant PRs and blog posts.