In an effort to help devenv.sh and Nix adoption I wanted to focus more on the overal UX surrounding devenv.sh. Currently the installation (using nix profile install
) was a bit lacking in terms of UX, so I attempted to fix some of the existing submitted issues against Nix regarding error messaging when using the command. This would be the first PR in possibly a series of PRs to improve the UX of nix profile
and other problems related to UX.
I haven’t worked with C++ in a while, but got something working that I think might be good enough for review.
The problem I run into is that I don’t know what to do after submitting the PR. Reviewers are automatically assigned, but I know the reviewers are pretty busy with their work and other PRs on Nix. I couldn’t find CONTRIBUTING.md
, so I was not 100% sure what the process should be. I also know that the Nix core team has started only a couple of months ago (), so I should be patient, but I also don’t want PRs to get lost and eventually forgotten. Especially when I want to look in follow-up UX PRs: I don’t want to start on new PRs if my current PR isn’t up-to-par quality-wise.
What is the process and what can I do to help PRs get merged? (not just mine, but in general)
My PR for reference: Improve error on conflict for nix profile install by bobvanderlinden · Pull Request #7788 · NixOS/nix · GitHub