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This contains a rework of my initial proposal to rebuild the moderation team, informed by the comments and remarks of the other members of the Steering...
In this report, I'd like to start by wishing everyone an great 2026. On the project level, of course, I hope that this year we will be able to solve some of...
This part of the report have been written before the Steering Committee meeting on Dec 4: You may have noticed that I have not published a SC report in the...
I designed this after discussions with K900, Philip and other members of the community. My main driver for writing this proposal is that I don't think the SC...
Frustrations This second week was filled with a mix of frustration and hope. Frustration because of course when I decided to run for SC I was ready to dive...
Governance body of the NixOS community. Created by the NixOS Constitutional Assembly after community crisis. Contains 7 elected members.
One week has passed since I started my 1 year mandate in the NixOS Steering Committee. My most essential concern for this mandate is being able to restore the...
About me I'm excited to share that I'm running for a seat on the NixOS Steering Committee. Before diving into my motivations, I'd like to take a moment to...
The problem of slides distribution... As a PhD student, I often do presentations. A lot of presentations. In 2024 alone, I gave about 15 talks in different...
Introduction In March 2024, a backdoor was discovered in xz, a (de)-compression software that is regularly used at the core of Linux distributions to unpack...
Venue: FOSDEM 2025 Recording: https:/fosdem.org2025scheduleeventfosdem-2025-4430-how-reproducible-is-nixos- How reproducible is NixOS? In this talk at FOSDEM...
Build reproducibility is often considered as a de facto feature provided by functional package managers like Nix. Although the functional package manager model...
Authors: J. Malka, S. Zacchiroli, T. Zimmermann Venue: MSR 2025 Award: ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award Preprint: https:/hal.sciencehal-04913007 ...
Venue: All Systems Go 2024 Recording:...
Authors: J. Malka Venue: ICSE Doctoral Symposium 24 Preprint: https:/hal.sciencehal-04482192v1 Functional package managers (FPMs) and reproducible builds...
Authors: J. Malka, S. Zacchiroli, T. Zimmermann Venue: ICSE-NIER'24 Preprint: https:/hal.sciencehal-04430009v1 Modern software engineering builds up on the...
Venue: ICSE 2024 Presentation of our ICSE-NIER'24 paper on how functional package managers provide the tooling to make build environments reproducible in...
Venue: FOSDEM 2024 Recording: https:/archive.fosdem.org2024scheduleeventfosdem-2024-3443-public-calendars-aggregation-using-linkal A talk about public...
Venue: FOSDEM 2024 Recording: https:/archive.fosdem.org2024scheduleeventfosdem-2024-2784-debug-your-stage-1-systemd-with-gdb-and-the-nixos-test-framework A...
Venue: FOSDEM 2024 Recording: https:/archive.fosdem.org2024scheduleeventfosdem-2024-3045-automatic-boot-assessment-with-boot-counting A talk about automatic...
Venue: FOSDEM 2024 Recording: https:/archive.fosdem.org2024scheduleeventfosdem-2024-3044-clevis-tang-unattended-boot-of-an-encrypted-nixos-system A talk about...
PhD student at the Polytechnic Institute of Paris researching software supply chain security. Former theoretical CS student at École Normale Supérieure....