[Nix-dev] Repo for incomplete/unmaintained work

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 10:25:59PM +0200, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
> 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?

I think it's important to have the broken packages *in front* of the
potential fixers. The broken attribute (which I discovered last week)
sounds fine to me too.