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# Contributing to Nixpkgs
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2023-07-25 17:20:41 +02:00
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## (Proposing a change)
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When pull requests are made, our tooling automation bot,
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[OfBorg](https://github.com/NixOS/ofborg) will perform various checks
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to help ensure expression quality.
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## (Merging a pull request)
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The *Nixpkgs committers* are people who have been given
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permission to merge.
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## (Flow of changes)
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Most contributions are based on and merged into these branches:
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* `master` is the main branch where all small contributions go
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* `staging` is branched from master, changes that have a big impact on
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Hydra builds go to this branch
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* `staging-next` is branched from staging and only fixes to stabilize
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and security fixes with a big impact on Hydra builds should be
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contributed to this branch. This branch is merged into master when
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deemed of sufficiently high quality
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