Document conventions around adding new maintainers

Adding them to `maintainers/maintainer-list` in a separate commit.

Co-Authored-By: Pavol Rusnak <pavol@rusnak.io>
Co-Authored-By: Atemu <atemu.main@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: Kevin Cox <kevincox@kevincox.ca>
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Arnout Engelen 2020-08-30 12:12:45 +02:00
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@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ hello-2.3 A program that produces a familiar, friendly greeting
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A list of names and e-mail addresses of the maintainers of this Nix expression. If you would like to be a maintainer of a package, you may want to add yourself to <link
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix"><filename>nixpkgs/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix</filename></link> and write something like <literal>[ stdenv.lib.maintainers.alice stdenv.lib.maintainers.bob ]</literal>.
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix"><filename>nixpkgs/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix</filename></link>. There is no restriction to becoming a maintainer, just add each new maintainer to that list in a separate commit titled 'maintainers: add alice', and reference maintainers with <literal>maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ alice bob ]</literal>.
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