Silvan Mosberger

I'm not sure how much you'll appreciate this, but I did a little exploration of how I'd organize such a tutorial. I focused on it being very incremental in terms...

Something important I'd like to mention is that calling file paths and fetchers an impurity is not really accurate: - Paths are considered pure _if_ they are in the same...

@tazjin Maybe try to not go into too much detail. We discussed this in the documentation team a bunch already, the goal of this tutorial is to get beginners to...

Related to the domain name discussions: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-related-domains-that-i-control/10034

@edolstra Did you get a reply regarding the cost for nix.org or nix.com?

Having discussed this on IRC a bit, this is an arbitrary set of requirements I came up with: To become a nixpkgs committer you need: - To have at least...

In addition, a series of interview questions could be asked, such as: - "How does master and staging work, when to use what?" - "Describe the release process, what do...

- "When would you commit to master directly, versus going through a PR?"

@veprbl The thing is, people might get commit access at some point because they have a lot of time and motivation to contribute, and that is a great help at...

@veprbl Well I'm certainly up for some purging though! I understand what you mean, but I disagree. Let's look at it like this: - We have a certain number of...