Get In Touch

This article provides an overview of various ways of engaging the Nix community. See official NixOS community page for more information.

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 the contributing section of the Nixpkgs article.

Communication

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

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.

Forums

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