[Nix-dev] Low-hanging fruit in NixOS for aspiring developer

[Anderson Torres]

2014-12-06 9:02 GMT-02:00, Albin Stjerna <albin.stjerna at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm thinking about getting involved in NixOS, and I'm looking for good
> places to start learning, beyond trying out NixOS and reading the manual
> and the papers. Are there any packaging efforts or other low-hanging fruit
> in particular that I could look at?
>

Well, I am trying to port some packages to Nixpkgs. A good place to
start thinking is to get the package list of FreeBSD Ports or
Archlinux+AUR and start porting them!

> Also, I'd like to mention that I'm considering a rather serious long-term
> committment to NixOS if things work out, though I'm waiting for Gnome to
> become slightly more stable before transitioning full-time on my main
> computer. I am particularly interested in using/participating in the
> development of a system  that is developed and tested as an organic whole,
> rather than as a core system plus packages, and from what I can tell NixOS
> seems to have great potential in this area.
>
> Regards,
>   Albin Stjerna
>