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| author | Niklas Hambüchen <mail@nh2.me> | 2022-01-04 21:43:10 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-01-04 21:43:10 +0100 |
| commit | 11d91bd3185af9f4f8a084fbe1535486c8da8653 (patch) | |
| tree | a2ee06151251ad6164d3e47e97a4e071c2716735 /CONTRIBUTING.md | |
| parent | 5e42776e56c6c7804f4e256b471a86cad64f07a6 (diff) | |
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CONTRIBUTING: Make clearer where branch policy can be found
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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index e3a18c6e7eb..f0d1ecf5aa3 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ under the terms of [COPYING](COPYING), which is an MIT-like license. ## Submitting changes +Read the ["Submitting changes"](https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#chap-submitting-changes) section of the nixpkgs manual. It explains how to write, test, and iterate on your change, and which branch to base your pull request against. + +Below is a short excerpt of some points in there: + * Format the commit messages in the following way: ``` @@ -40,7 +44,7 @@ under the terms of [COPYING](COPYING), which is an MIT-like license. * If there is no upstream license, `meta.license` should default to `lib.licenses.unfree`. * `meta.maintainers` must be set. -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). +See the nixpkgs manual for more details on [standard meta-attributes](https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-standard-meta-attributes). ## Writing good commit messages |