[Nix-dev] Repo for incomplete/unmaintained work

[Mathijs Kwik]

Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Currently we have quite a lot of unmaintained, broken, or work-in
> progress components in nixpkgs. It would be great if we could get to the
> point where everything in nixpkgs was expected to work and be
> maintained, but part of that I think is having a place for this other
> work that isn't quite up to scratch but still may be valuable can live
> (it could also include experimental coding styles, proprietary services,
> etc.).
>
> Thoughts on the idea? Any idea for a name for the repo? 

I propose "nixnut" :P
But that might not be clear to non-dutch-speaking users.

The idea itself sounds good.
But isn't the `broken` attribute aiming for something similar?

> Eelco, would you
> be able to make the repo if you think this is a good approach?
>
> ~Shea
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