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# How to get help
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If you need assistance with one of your contributions, there are a few places you
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can go for help.
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These are sorted from specific to general, and you typically want to start as
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specific as possible, since this increases your changes to get help.
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Initially, you'll want to try to find individuals or groups with specific knowledge of
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your issue:
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- look for the relevant package's maintainers, listed in its `maintainers` attribute
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- look at the git log for the relevant files
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- check out if any teams are responsible for the relevant subsystem:
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- on the [NixOS website](https://nixos.org/community/#governance-teams)
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- in the [team list file](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/maintainers/team-list.nix)
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- in the [`CODEOWNERS`](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/.github/CODEOWNERS) file
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If that fails, you can resort to asking the community at large, using one of the official
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communication channels, such as:
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- a related room in the [NixOS Matrix space](https://matrix.to/#/#community:nixos.org)
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- the *Help* category on the [Discourse Forum](https://discourse.nixos.org/c/learn/9)
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- note that people typically (but not always!) have the same username here as on
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GitHub, so this can be another way of reaching out to specific maintainers.
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- the general [`#nix`](https://matrix.to/#/#nix:nixos.org) room on Matrix
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If your issue is about a specific package, or a subsystem as listed in `CODEOWNERS`, then file an issue on nixpkgs, and tag the
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maintainers.
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If it's a more general question, rather than an issue, ask on Matrix or on Discourse.
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