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I would like to join if possible too!

grep -lR Miezhiko pkgs  | sort | uniq | wc -l
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Based on that query it looks like you’re not a package maintainer yet. The way to start is to submit PRs that improve a package and simultaneously (in a separate commit on the same PR) add yourself as a maintainer.

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52

I was invited in March, but the invite got archived by one of my mail filters. I noticed this just now after seeing this thread, but the invite has expired. Can the invite be sent again?

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I received an invite to join the NixOS organization on 2021-11-10, the day on which I became a maintainer. I’d like to join, but for some reason the invite expired or was disabled (visiting the invitation link says “Invitation not found”). Please consider both inviting me again, and also checking whether there’s an issue with the automatic invitation. Thank you.

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cc @domenkozar for another invite

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Maintainers team is managed by @grahamc!

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λ rg '\sjk\s' pkgs --count-matches | wc -l
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I was invited to the org 2020-12-28 but I pay more attention to my GH notifications than the GH email spam so I missed it so a fresh invite would be appreciated
I’m a normal member but not a “maintainer”

I have 2fa enabled, username 06kellyjac

Edit: updated 2022-03-17

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Hi,
I recently started using NixOS, and just packaged drivers for my brother dcpj315w printer. I want to contribute the package so that it becomes useful for other newbies. I am fine with setting myself as maintainer. Do I need to be on the maintainer list for doing so? In that case, you could add me as @jensac on Github. If there is another or even better way to deal with that situation, just let me know.

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you can just add yourself as a maintainer in lib/maintainer-list.nix, and open a PR to apply it to the main repo.

Then, just add yourself as a maintainer to any package that you would like to receive github notifications for when there are changes.

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Hey @grahamc can I get a invite to the org as well? portothree (Gustavo Porto) · GitHub
I’m already on the maintainer-list file from a bunch of go packages, but would be really nice to be part of the org (nothing like flexing the nix org badge on the GitHub profile lol)

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@portothree iirc the first time you contrib to nixpkgs you get an auto invite to the org on your email. i only noticed it after a while and the invite expired

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Ohh, just found the email, indeed expired. Did you managed to get invited again?

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no

idk who has inviting rights on there; maybe you can try asking somewhere on matrix

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Hi, I am already in the maintainers.nix (hellwolf (Miao ZhiCheng) · GitHub), how can I be added to the github org of the package maintainer team?

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Are you able to request invite at Sign in to GitHub · GitHub?

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Nope. It shows 404 for me.

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@hellwolf I created this issue to track this: Resend missed Nixpkgs Maintainers organization invites · Issue #234293 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

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Looks like the automated maintainers team adding script doesn’t work anymore, @alejandrosame was added in maintainers: add alejandrosame by alejandrosame · Pull Request #247146 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub, but still isn’t part of the maintainers team

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I appear to be now a member of NixOS/nixpkgs-maintainers. I didn’t see any notification of the invite in the GitHub UI but I could see an e-mail invitation after reading this comment.

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I could also use a new invite, somehow fell through the cracks, bin in maintainers.nix since 2020.