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Developing for NixOS

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Description

or developing portable software

@domenkozar do you want to make a tutorial out of this?

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/developing-for-nixos/8189

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reading the linked Discourse discussion on developing for NixOS and determine the intended scope of the tutorial. The issue is done when a clear tutorial on developing portable software for NixOS is defined and added to the project's documentation, but its exact content and location are not specified.

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Assessment

Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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