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author | devhell <^@regexmail.net> | 2015-07-10 21:54:11 +0100 |
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committer | devhell <^@regexmail.net> | 2015-07-10 21:54:51 +0100 |
commit | f495ae308532cc7b97f81a8d9e43c9ff079c96bb (patch) | |
tree | 0a337b44492b7803d7358307478a95300765f4b6 /CONTRIBUTING.md | |
parent | 13a163e8cc202026c5c5bf03e80d873e55c0c7c9 (diff) | |
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CONTRIBUTING.md: Some minor clean-ups
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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 9938604eef5..f3b325ed297 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ git checkout -b 'fix/pkg-name-update' ``` * Please avoid working directly on the `master` branch. -* Make commits of logical units. +* Make commits of logical units. * If you removed pkgs, made some major NixOS changes etc., write about them in `nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-unstable.xml`. * Check for unnecessary whitespace with `git diff --check` before committing. * Format the commit in a following way: @@ -37,12 +37,12 @@ * `nginx service: refactor config generation` * Test your changes. If you work with * nixpkgs: - * update pkg -> + * update pkg -> * `nix-env -i pkg-name -f <path to your local nixpkgs folder>` - * add pkg -> + * add pkg -> * Make sure it's in `pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix` * `nix-env -i pkg-name -f <path to your local nixpkgs folder>` - * _If you don't want to install pkg in you profile_. + * _If you don't want to install pkg in you profile_. * `nix-build -A pkg-attribute-name <path to your local nixpkgs folder>/default.nix` and check results in the folder `result`. It will appear in the same directory where you did `nix-build`. * If you did `nix-env -i pkg-name` you can do `nix-env -e pkg-name` to uninstall it from your system. * NixOS and its modules: @@ -70,10 +70,9 @@ ## Commit policy -* Commits must be sufficiently tested before being merged, both the master and staging branches. -* Hydra builds for master and stagingshould not be used as testing platform, it's a build farm for changes that have been already tested. +* Commits must be sufficiently tested before being merged, both for the master and staging branches. +* Hydra builds for master and staging should not be used as testing platform, it's a build farm for changes that have been already tested. * Master should only see non-breaking commits that do not cause mass rebuilds. -* Staging should only see non-breaking mass-rebuild commits. That means it's not to be used for testing, changes must have been well tested already. [Read policy here](http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/13447). +* Staging should only see non-breaking mass-rebuild commits. That means it's not to be used for testing, and changes must have been well tested already. [Read policy here](http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/13447). * If staging is already in a broken state, please refrain from adding extra new breakages. Stabilize it for a few days, merge into master, then resume development on staging. [Keep an eye on the staging evaluations here](http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/staging#tabs-evaluations). -* When changing the bootloader installation process, extra care must be taken. Grub installations cannot be rolled back, hence changes may break people installation forever. For any non-trivial change to the bootloader please file a PR asking for review, especially from @edolstra. - +* When changing the bootloader installation process, extra care must be taken. Grub installations cannot be rolled back, hence changes may break people's installations forever. For any non-trivial change to the bootloader please file a PR asking for review, especially from @edolstra. |