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authorArnout Engelen <arnout@bzzt.net>2020-08-30 12:12:45 +0200
committerArnout Engelen <arnout@bzzt.net>2020-11-11 14:07:20 +0100
commit292de46c5b9c3f42088d3de0d74a2aedf3755fee (patch)
treee5d0eb57075f961a3c1edd9e48fe6af3ec50732a /doc/stdenv
parentc59ea8b8a0e7f927e7291c14ea6cd1bd3a16ff38 (diff)
Document conventions around adding new maintainers
Adding them to `maintainers/maintainer-list` in a separate commit.

Co-Authored-By: Pavol Rusnak <pavol@rusnak.io>
Co-Authored-By: Atemu <atemu.main@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: Kevin Cox <kevincox@kevincox.ca>
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diff --git a/doc/stdenv/meta.xml b/doc/stdenv/meta.xml
index 9cef9360002cd..67c7a23c32e09 100644
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+++ b/doc/stdenv/meta.xml
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ hello-2.3  A program that produces a familiar, friendly greeting
     <listitem>
      <para>
       A list of names and e-mail addresses of the maintainers of this Nix expression. If you would like to be a maintainer of a package, you may want to add yourself to <link
-    xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix"><filename>nixpkgs/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix</filename></link> and write something like <literal>[ stdenv.lib.maintainers.alice stdenv.lib.maintainers.bob ]</literal>.
+    xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix"><filename>nixpkgs/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix</filename></link>. There is no restriction to becoming a maintainer, just add each new maintainer to that list in a separate commit titled 'maintainers: add alice', and reference maintainers with <literal>maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ alice bob ]</literal>.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>