doc: mention adding maintainers must be done in a separate commit (#410292)

authored by Gwenn Le Bihan and committed by GitHub 2f8b917c 6d6b0b1d

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maintainers/README.md
··· 40 40 [`maintainer-list.nix`](./maintainer-list.nix), and then to the desired 41 41 package's `meta.maintainers` list, and send a PR with the changes. 42 42 43 + If you're adding yourself as a maintainer as part of another PR (in which 44 + you become a maintainer of a package, for example), make your change to 45 + `maintainer-list.nix` in a separate commit. 46 + 43 47 ### How to lose maintainer status 44 48 45 49 Maintainers who have become inactive on a given package can be removed. This
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pkgs/README.md
··· 113 113 114 114 - Add yourself as the maintainer of the package. 115 115 116 + - If this is your first time contributing (welcome!), [add yourself to the maintainers list](../maintainers/README.md#how-to-become-a-maintainer) in a separate commit. 117 + 116 118 - All other [`meta`](https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#chap-meta) attributes are optional, but it’s still a good idea to provide at least the `description`, `homepage` and [`license`](https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#sec-meta-license). 117 119 118 120 - The exact syntax and semantics of the Nix expression language, including the built-in functions, are [Nix language reference](https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/language/).