[Nix-dev] Re: Build failures on hydra and maintainers.

[Michael Raskin]

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Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> To that end, I suggested something different to Eelco: remove
> `top-level/release.nix' and instead build all the packages that have a
> `meta.maintainers' attribute.
> 
> That would give an incentive to get listed as a package maintainer.
> (There could still be unmaintained packages among the references of a
> maintained package, but hopefully breakage of such a dependency would be
> quickly caught.)

I do like such an idea, but we have to make some decision about policy
points. We would need to declare that "maintainer" rights and
obligations are quite lower than in some other projects. I.e. we do not
suppose that maintainers explicitly acknowledge changes to the packages
made by non-maintainers. Also, it is not supposed that maintainers
always keep packages up-to-date.

We need to lower the bar for a trivial reason: there are some packages
where original packager is no more interested and the interested people
do not consider it correct to proclaim themselves maintainers without
making any changes (while no changes are needed..)
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