Get In Touch

Next to the Contributing to NixOS section at the NixOS community page on the official NixOS website we want to additionally describe how you can get involved in the NixOS ecosystem.

Development

Development of Nix and NixOS happens primarily on Nixpkgs. You can contribute by helping reporting, diagnosing and closing issues, by creating, testing and reviewing pull-requests, and by becoming a maintainer of packages and modules hosted on the repository. For more information, see Nixpkgs#Contributing the contributing section of the Nixpkgs article.

Communication

Join the mailinglist

There is currently only one official Mailinglist related to NixOS, nix-devel. You don't need to be a developer to use nix-devel.

Join the chat

The official NixOS channel resides on irc.freenode.org in #nixos (searchable Log) and the wiki channel is at #nixos-wiki.

In addition to that there is also the unofficial NixOS matrix channel

Join the forums

Check out the NixOS Reddit channel and help answering questions on Stack Overflow for NixOS and nix.