diff --git a/maintainers/README.md b/maintainers/README.md index 70687604b611..d1e9433f909f 100644 --- a/maintainers/README.md +++ b/maintainers/README.md @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ The maintainer is welcome to come back at any time. ## Tools for maintainers When a pull request is made against a package, nixpkgs CI will notify the appropriate maintainer(s) by trying to correlate the files the PR touches with the packages that need rebuilding. +This process is subject to error however, so we encourage PR authors to notify the appropriate people. Maintainers can also invoke the [nixpkgs-merge-bot](https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs-merge-bot) to merge pull requests targeting packages they are the maintainer of, which satisfy the current security [constraints](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-merge-bot/blob/main/README.md#constraints). Examples: [#397273](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/397273#issuecomment-2789382120) and [#377027](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/377027#issuecomment-2614510869)