Governance

The Nix Community Values and the Nix Governance Constitution are important documents tracked in this repository. The latter describes Steering Committee (SC) and the NixOS Foundation Board. The first election ran in 2024.

RFC Process

The Nix RFC (Request For Comments) process exists to establish wider consensus for substantial changes. See the rfcs repository for more information.

Teams

Various Nix teams exist to work together. Teams generally have certain authority, responsibility and accountability over their resources. There are currently no strict requirements from teams.

As a team you might want to have a new GitHub team, Matrix room or permissions to a repository. Adding a team as shown below does not automatically give you that. Instead see the resources page.

Website

The most official teams are the ones declared in the teams section on the homepage.

To add a new team to this list, open a PR on the nixos-homepage repository.

Nixpkgs

The Nixpkgs core team governs Nixpkgs and its teams.

More Nixpkgs-specific teams are declared in the maintainers/team-list.nix file, which can be programmatically accessed using lib.teams.

To add a new team to this list, open a PR to change it.

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