Aleix Boné
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Reviewed-by: Rodrigo Arias Mallo <rodrigo.arias@bsc.es> Tested-by: Rodrigo Arias Mallo <rodrigo.arias@bsc.es>
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# Maintainers
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## Role of a maintainer
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The responsibilities of maintainers are quite lax, and similar in spirit to
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[nixpkgs' maintainers][1]:
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The main responsibility of a maintainer is to keep the packages they
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maintain in a functioning state, and keep up with updates. In order to do
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that, they are empowered to make decisions over the packages they maintain.
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That being said, the maintainer is not alone in proposing changes to the
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packages. Anybody (both bots and humans) can send PRs to bump or tweak the
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package.
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In practice, this means that when updating or proposing changes to a package,
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we will notify maintainers by mentioning them in Gitea so they can test changes
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and give feedback.
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Since we do bi-yearly release cycles, there is no expectation from maintainers
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to update packages at each upstream release. Nevertheless, on each release cycle
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we may request help from maintainers when updating or testing their packages.
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## Becoming a maintainer
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You'll have to add yourself in the `maintainers.nix` list; your username should
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match your `bsc.es` email. Then you can add yourself to the `meta.maintainers`
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of any package you are interested in maintaining.
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[1]: [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/nixos-25.05/maintainers]
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