[Nix-dev] Keeping nixpkgs up to date

[Paul Colomiets]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 12:04 PM, 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 situation like we have today, with thousands of outdated packages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.
>

The main problem with maintaining a package is slow feedback cycle.
I.e. when I do pull request, there is hard to find out who should make
review and take final decision. So I there will be group of people
that responsible for that package may be easier than current situation
of anybody can merge but nobody feels he should. However, may be I'm
wrong with my understanding of current state.

-- 
Paul