github shows CONTRIBUTING.md when you open an issue/PR, that's the main reason I'd like to see it as an entry point to contributing to Nix family.
The wiki page and nixos.org is something ~1% of contributing users will ever read. On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Florian Friesdorf <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > >> GPG FPR: 7A13 5EEE 1421 9FC2 108D BAAF 38F8 99A3 0C45 F083 > >> > >> > >> > >> ---------- > >> _______________________________________________ > >> nix-dev mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > >> > > > > > > -- > Florian Friesdorf <[email protected]> > GPG FPR: 7A13 5EEE 1421 9FC2 108D BAAF 38F8 99A3 0C45 F083 > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > >
_______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
