[Nix-dev] patch: eclipse version 4.6

[Bjørn Forsman]

On 3 July 2016 at 17:20, Azul <mail at azulinho.com> wrote:
> n00b to the nix community so forgive my ignorance here.
> is this the correct way to submit patches to nixpkgs ?
> I attempted a PR some time ago which I never managed to get to build
> properly on Travis or identify why the Travis build scripts failed the the
> build , so I scrapped it all together. Being new to nix and being very short
> of time meant I didn't have the opportunity to debug it properly. I could
> say I read some sort of contributor guidelines which lead to follow the
> usual github PR, test, wait for green and ask for a review but maybe I just
> dreamed it up or I was thinking of some other open source project?
>
> so what is the best way to send patches to nix in a sane and safe way that
> won't break master ?

In general the best way is github PRs. But patches on the mailing list
may be applied too. Someone just have to do it...

The Travis builds are unfortunately failing a lot. It is my feeling
that most devs will look at PRs even if Travis are failing.

- Bjørn