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Nix error message improvement

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Fiscal Host: codeops llc

A project to make errors more friendly in the nix tools.

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Estimated Annual Budget
$2,906
Today's Balance
$4,990.77
Phase 3 continued: nix issues...
$11,000

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Burke Libbey

$300 USD since Apr 2020

2
Incognito

$300 USD since Apr 2020

3
Gasper Vozel

$275 USD since Mar 2020

4
Marek Fajkus

$260 USD since Apr 2020

5
Simon Chatterjee

$260 USD since Apr 2020

6
codygman.dev

$250 USD since Mar 2020

7
das-g

$240 USD since Mar 2020

8
Daniel Mueller

$240 USD since May 2020

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Sam Griffin

$200 USD since Mar 2020

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Sylvain Fankhauser

$200 USD since Mar 2020

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Jaka Hudoklin

$200 USD since Mar 2020

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Arian van Putten

$100 USD since Apr 2020

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Mitchell Hashimoto

$100 USD since Jun 2020

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Terje Larsen

$100 USD since Jul 2020

15
Cole Mickens

$100 USD since Jul 2020

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Niteo GmbH

$1k USD since Mar 2020

2
Serokell OÜ

$1k USD since Apr 2020

3
Hypered

$600 USD since Mar 2020

4
Mercury

$100 USD since Apr 2020

Nix error message improvement is all of us

Our contributors 43

Thank you for supporting Nix error message improvement.

Ben Burdette

Admin

I'm the collective admin and also the primary developer on the project.

Domen Kozar

Admin

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Niteo GmbH

Financial Contributor

Total contributions

$1,400 USD

sponsor

Serokell OÜ

Financial Contributor

Total contributions

$1,000 USD

Hypered

Financial Contributor

Total contributions

$600 USD

Burke Libbey

Financial Contributor

Total contributions

$300 USD

incognito

Financial Contributor

Total contributions

$300 USD

Gasper Vozel

Financial Contributor

Total contributions

$275 USD

backer

Marek Fajkus

Financial Contributor

Total contributions

$260 USD

Simon Chatterjee

Financial Contributor

Total contributions

$260 USD

codygman.dev

Financial Contributor

Total contributions

$250 USD

Good luck! Hopefully I can hurry up and get good enough with nix to help!

das-g

Financial Contributor

Total contributions

$240 USD

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Monthly financial contribution to Proposal for improving ...

from Joe Hermaszewski •

+$2.00USD
Completed

Monthly financial contribution to nix errors enhancement ...

from Niteo GmbH •

+$100.00USD
Completed

Monthly financial contribution to Proposal for improving ...

from Daniel Mueller •

+$20.00USD
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Today’s balance

$4,990.77 USD

Total raised

$5,990.77 USD

Total disbursed

$1,000.00 USD

Estimated annual budget

$2,905.82 USD

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News from Nix error message improvement

Updates on our activities and progress.

Revising our nix errors road map - phase 3+

We're revamping the funding goals for the nix error improvement project! The original phase 3 involved a comprehensive review and revision of all the existing errors, followed by a phase 4 where we address specific pain points from the nix...
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Published on July 16, 2020 by Ben Burdette

Phase 2 complete!

Good news! Changes are merged, tests are passing, the technical changes of the nix error project are complete. The new features this time around:show-trace data is included in the ErrorInfo class now.the lines of code surrounding the error...
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Published on July 7, 2020 by Ben Burdette

Lines of code! And show-trace.

We're closing in on the end of phase 2 for this project! Today I put in the second PR for this phase, which displays the problem lines of code for errors, as well as for show-trace call sites. There are some screenshots - check them out her...
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Published on July 1, 2020 by Ben Burdette

About

"Nix errors enhancement" is me, Ben Burdette.  I'll be working on this for a few months most likely, to improve error messages throughout nix and the nix tools.

Check out the proposal for more details.

Our team

Ben Burdette

Admin

I'm the collective admin and also the primary developer on the project.

Domen Kozar

Admin

Organizer