[Nix-dev] Keeping nixpkgs up to date

[Alan & Kim Zimmerman]

People may be likely to commit to being part of a group, where they can
assist as time allows, without necessarily commiting to being THE
maintainer for a particular package. So you could potentially end up with a
larger pool of people prepared to do maintenance with this model.

Alan


On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Vladimír Čunát <vcunat at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 08/27/2014 04:35 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
>
>> What do you think? I think something like this is inevitable with the
>> ever-growing number of packages and users or we end up with the
>> situation like we have today, with thousands of outdated packages
>> without maintainers or with inactive/busy maintainers listed.
>>
>
> I think the main problem is that the total amount of energy spent on
> maintaining packages is low, and I don't see how the grouping will help it.
>
> Also, the commitment of being maintainer of a group of packages seems
> significantly larger than for a single package.  The change may rather
> dissuade people from becoming a maintainer at all, as they may be only
> interested in a few particular packages and not e.g. in all games we have.
>
>
> Vladimir
>
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