Contributing to the Nix wiki

edit O(1)

On the haskell mailinglist there was some discussion about their [haskell.org wiki]. If you visit it it looks very crowded. However there is a good reason for it. You can access all content by O(1) access no matter whether you're an advanced user or a new user. I'd vote for O(1) access on the main wiki page as well - Marc Weber

edit WISH LIST

What is missing on the wiki? even if you don't have time let others know who may have time what you think is missing. Should we group this by author? Should we add kind of rating?

This is a list containing random notes right now. Add items yourself here.

haskell on Nix howto. (Marc Weber is going to write this?)

edit vim and .nix files. (Marc Weber is going to write this?)

edit use what is coming with nix (nix os)

# add .nix filetype detection and minimal syntax highlighting support
ftNixSupport     = getConfig [ "vim" "ftNix" ] true;

edit use the lisp syntax or what kosmikus provided

mkdir -p ~/.vim/ftdetect/
NEW NEW NEW
http://people.cs.uu.nl/andres/nix.vim
NEW NEW NEW
find / -name syntax/lisp.vim

Then use the found file an copy it to nix.vim

cp /nix/store/jz5hjc8a8cl5x9pm40ib42bk13b4vazz-vim-7.3/share/vim/vim73/syntax/lisp.vim

~/.vim/ftdetect/nix.vim

echo "syntax on" >> ~/.vimrc

Note: this is not exactly NIX syntax but looks much better than S/W anyway!

Test your new setup:

vi /etc/nixos/configuration.nix # should be highlighted

--Invalidmagic 10:31, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

contributor guide and workflows?

python on Nix (Marc Weber is going to contribute writing down how it is and which problems are there)

ruby on Nix (Marc Weber is going to write about what he has done)

buildfarm stuff

 how to make packages being build
 how to abort a build of packages (throw vs assert)

trouble building a package? things which you can try

 Link list to other distros
 where to get patches / source from.
 special hints about special make systems such as cmake whatsoever

Howto X?

 Which package managers are supported and which features of them ? eg kde, gnome etc

Nix and encryption

Howto add completion to bash and zsh?

Howto work with nix - common practises

   this should answer:
   how to find the package I'm looking for (Marc Weber is going to contribute)

howto use git to track nix ?

   I'm a fan of git :)

...

list of advanced buliders

edit random notes

What policies do we have ? Eg "Nix" and "NixOS" is the spelling which should be used everywhere. What about links? Should they all start with an upper case letter? Anyway. Keep this short because everyone is supposed to read it!

Do we want subsections for different projects?

Eg NixOS:Modules using a colon (":") to separate the project and the page contents? Or does Mediawiki allow NixOS/Modules, Don't create this page as well using a slash?

It is possible configure MediaWiki to treat slashes as a hierarchy, but I suspect we're better off using categories: [[Category:NixOS]] It is also possible to have hierarchical categories but it gets a bit messy. I really like the look of the Semantic MediaWiki extensions http://semantic-mediawiki.org which allows for very rich categorization and queries: e.g. "Concepts" (goibhniu)