[Nix-dev] Git branches to track nix channels

[Domen Kožar]

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 <flo at chaoflow.net>
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 <flo at 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
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