[Nix-dev] How to add yourself as a maintainer for Haskell packages

[Peter Simons]

Fellow Haskell hackers,

if you'd like your favorite Haskell packages to always compile in
Nixpkgs, then you can tip the odds in your favor by becoming a package
maintainer. Maintainers receive an e-mail from hydra.nixos.org every
time the build status of their package changes, i.e. every time a
successful build suddenly fails. This gives you the chance to respond
quickly to the issue and help to fix it.

You have to do two things to enlist yourself as a maintainer:

 - Add your e-mail address to [1].

 - Add your maintainer id to [2] and list all the packages you'd like to
   subscribe to.

I hope you'll find this feature useful,
Peter


[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/lib/maintainers.nix.
[2] https://github.com/NixOS/cabal2nix/blob/master/src/Distribution/Nixpkgs/Haskell/FromCabal/Configuration/Maintainers.hs#L12