Is the process documented anywhere by chance?

I think we had quite a few updates recently to the bootstrap script that did not regenerate binaries. A few examples are:

• 11c8f46
• fed2300
• d7fe0a5
• 86ca0fa
• c6bd37a
• d29b1ec

These were just this year.

It's not documented, it kind of existed when I picked up the function of uploading new bootstrap tarballs, and it's remained in a kind-of-exists way.

Documenting it would be good, but I have not had the time to work on Nix lately, other than uploading new tarballs since if I don't do it, no one will.

@amjoseph-nixpkgs should be able to help/explain the process well, since they've done it quite a few times.

I'm sorry about the state of all this, just trying to do the best with what little time I've got.

Sounds reasonable.

I someone gets to document the process it might be a good idea to change it as well as current process gets us suboptimal result: #253713

@lovesegfault in #180223 @amjoseph-nixpkgs also used files from hydra and cross-trunk to give you files to upload

Please advice how to proceed.

I would be happy to help document this as part of the @NixOS/documentation-team efforts, together with someone who actually knows how it works.

Reverting the revert #256439