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| author | xd1le <elisp.vim@gmail.com> | 2017-09-22 23:12:49 +1000 |
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| committer | xd1le <elisp.vim@gmail.com> | 2017-09-22 23:12:49 +1000 |
| commit | 306a0d32dfb668f697e962206284f8df75964d0d (patch) | |
| tree | 0c1fa373a9320d6298cf58b0446c58726ca4bd74 /.github/CONTRIBUTING.md | |
| parent | c8e7aab0c8bae8a49ec5bd87ace65b237c8e3d18 (diff) | |
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CONTRIBUTING.md: mention that the meta.license and meta.maintainers
attributes must be set
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diff --git a/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md b/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md index f7fac647f41..99c5e0e429b 100644 --- a/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -32,11 +32,13 @@ under the terms of [COPYING](../COPYING), which is an MIT-like license. The old config generation system used impure shell scripts and could break in specific circumstances (see #1234). * `meta.description` should: - * Be capitalized - * Not start with the package name - * Not have a dot at the end + * Be capitalized. + * Not start with the package name. + * Not have a period at the end. +* `meta.license` must be set and fit the upstream license. +* `meta.maintainers` must be set. -See the nixpkgs manual for more details on how to [Submit changes to nixpkgs](https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#chap-submitting-changes). +See the nixpkgs manual for more details on [standard meta-attributes](https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-standard-meta-attributes) and on how to [submit changes to nixpkgs](https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#chap-submitting-changes). ## Writing good commit messages |