There is also a thread mentioning contribution from march: "Some bug tracker experience and RFC on improvements"
On Fri, May 22 2015, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > Hi Arseniy, > > On Tue, May 19 2015, Arseniy Seroka wrote: >> We have this. >> Read about it in a "making patches" section [1] >> >> [1] >> https://github.com/jagajaga/nixpkgs/blob/addition/contributing/CONTRIBUTING.md > > what's the status of that document? > > We also have: https://nixos.org/wiki/Contributing > > Is your page adding information on top of the wiki page? If yes, could > you adjust it to make use of the nixpkgs-channels repo? > > Do you see a need for a CONTRIBUTING.md in nixpkgs (instead of the wiki page)? > What do you think about a link from README.md to the Contributing wiki > page? > > I'm a fan of having things in one place and would welcome a > CONTRIBUTING.md instead of the wiki page. > > regards > Florian > >> On 19 May 2015 12:15:00 Florian Friesdorf <f...@chaoflow.net> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> nix channels are series of snapshots of nixpkgs that were succesfully >>> build by hydra and we subscribe and update them via nix-channel - for >>> users of nixpkgs this is great! >>> >>> As maintainers of nixpkgs and users who keep custom patches, we also >>> have one or more local checkouts of git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git. >>> >>> It would be great if channel information would be available via git as >>> well: >>> >>> - one branch per channel, git reset --hard to the latest successfully >>> build nixpkgs in this channel >>> >>> - tags (<channel-name>-<datetime>) for each successful channel build. >>> >>> This would enable us to base local customizations of nixpkgs on-top of >>> successful hydra builds and therefore getting as much binary package >>> support as possible, and would remove the need to additionally maintain >>> channels with nix-channel. >>> >>> What do you think? >>> >>> cheers >>> florian >>> -- >>> Florian Friesdorf <f...@chaoflow.net> >>> GPG FPR: 7A13 5EEE 1421 9FC2 108D BAAF 38F8 99A3 0C45 F083 >>> >>> >>> >>> ---------- >>> _______________________________________________ >>> nix-dev mailing list >>> nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl >>> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >>> >> >> > > -- > Florian Friesdorf <f...@chaoflow.net> > GPG FPR: 7A13 5EEE 1421 9FC2 108D BAAF 38F8 99A3 0C45 F083 -- Florian Friesdorf <f...@chaoflow.net> GPG FPR: 7A13 5EEE 1421 9FC2 108D BAAF 38F8 99A3 0C45 F083
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