[[!meta date="2016-11-15 12:10"]]
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[[!tag sprint nixos linux technology usability]]
[[!summary a report about a nixos hacking sprint in the augsburger 'openlab' hackerspace.]]

# nixos-sprint

paul and me visisted the [augsburger openlab](https://openlab-augsburg.de/) again!

# projects

## profpatsch

 * package draw.io  
    * ✔ build with ant
 * ✔ Initialize package tests

## uwap

 * Quassel + qt4 doesn't support postgresql as database backend   
    * ✔ Add an option to the quassel service to allow the qt5 version 
 * "nixify" postfix configuration  
    * ✔ main.cf <https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/20218>

## christine

 * ✔ add maildev: <https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/20162>
 * ✔ removed django 1.5: <https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/20195>
 * ✔ nodejs cleanup: <https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels>
 * ✔ hadoop: removed hardcoded path: <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-13797>

## paul, michael & qknight 
 * ✔ started nextcloud packaging 
 * ✔ leaps: packaged with tests: <https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/47d81ed3473f33cfb48f2be079f50cdfac60f1e7>
 * ✔ made <https://github.com/QuiteRSS/quiterss> work on nixos, <https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/20245>
 * fixed nixcloud.io email system so that qknight can use thunderbird with STARTTLS and submission

        submissionOptions = {
          "smtpd_tls_security_level" = "encrypt";
          "smtpd_sasl_auth_enable" = "yes";
          "smtpd_client_restrictions" = "permit_sasl_authenticated,reject";
          "smtpd_sasl_type" = "dovecot";
          "smtpd_sasl_path" = "private/auth";
        };

 * LXC: Unprivileged container with NixOS as guest and as host:
    * ✔ LXC container ist started as root that spawnes the LXC as user 100000 which is unprivileged on the host
    * ✔ shared read only store  with the host
    * ✔ container can be build and updated on the host with nix-env

# summary

this sprint was awesome. we got so many things to work!