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author | Silvan Mosberger <silvan.mosberger@tweag.io> | 2023-08-02 19:25:04 +0200 |
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committer | Silvan Mosberger <silvan.mosberger@tweag.io> | 2023-08-13 22:04:57 +0200 |
commit | 3d5fc07cfb6835d5928a1b3388dbbb5a2a61133e (patch) | |
tree | 0f52ab246443d942c557713b14935a5328ab1eee /CONTRIBUTING.md | |
parent | 350eb69c170cde0d8c0bf8afd117f8352cacec6d (diff) |
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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 76f7cf5f4cc87..17f63d1868d68 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -1,5 +1,12 @@ # Contributing to Nixpkgs +This document is for people wanting to contribute to the implementation of Nixpkgs. +This involves interacting with implementation changes that are proposed using [GitHub](https://github.com/) [pull requests](https://docs.github.com/pull-requests) to the [Nixpkgs](https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/) repository (which you're in right now). + +As such, a GitHub account is required, which you can sign up for [here](https://github.com/signup). +Additionally this document assumes that you already know how to use GitHub and Git. +If that's not the case, we recommend learning about it first [here](https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/quickstart/hello-world). + ## (Proposing a change) | Submitting changes Note: contributing implies licensing those contributions |