I've been using the Nix package manager for some time.
The first commit of a flake.nix file to my nixos-config repository (formerly my dotfiles repository) was on the 26th of September 2022.
The following month, I started to experiment with NixOS - the operating system built on the Nix language and the package manager.
Rarely have I found a package missing within the 120,000+ available, but I have added some missing Vim plugins and some custom packages to my own configuration.
But I hadn't tried to contribute any package definitions back to nixpkgs until today.
I've submitted my first pull request to nixpkgs to add a small script that I've added to my own configuration.
It's always nerve-racking contributing to a new projects, but let's see how it goes.
I'm thinking of it as a free code review.
If it goes well, I can see me contributing more packages in the future.
