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Contributing to Nixpkgs

(Proposing a change)

When pull requests are made, our tooling automation bot, OfBorg will perform various checks to help ensure expression quality.

(Merging a pull request)

The Nixpkgs committers are people who have been given permission to merge.

(Flow of changes)

Most contributions are based on and merged into these branches:

  • master is the main branch where all small contributions go
  • staging is branched from master, changes that have a big impact on Hydra builds go to this branch
  • staging-next is branched from staging and only fixes to stabilize and security fixes with a big impact on Hydra builds should be contributed to this branch. This branch is merged into master when deemed of sufficiently high quality