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Contributing to nix.dev
nix.dev is a community effort to collect, create, and maintain world-class learning resources for Nix.
We strongly encourage everyone interested to contribute by asking informed questions or directly proposing changes.
Make a pull request if you want to introduce an incremental change. Note our considerations on licensing and attribution.
Open an issue if you want to clarify something not evident from what is provided in this repository, or if you want to discuss a significant change before starting to work on it.
Code of conduct
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- Use welcoming and inclusive language
- Show empathy and respect towards other people
- Be respectful of different viewpoints and experiences
- Give and gracefully accept constructive criticism
- Focus on what is best for the community
Updating reference manuals
With the current setup, the Nix manual hosted on nix.dev does not get updated automatically with new releases. The following manual steps are required:
nix-shell --run update-nixpkgs-releases
nix-shell --run update-nix-releases
Contributor guides
Please read Contributing Documentation.