[Nix-dev] Maintainership

[Petr Rockai]

Hi,

I agree with basically everything said, and I think "breaking" packages
with no maintainers (after the next stable branch-off, 14.0x?) would be
really good to make it obvious what is broken and is a candidate for
removal. It would also give people a chance to adopt a package they use
before it is removed.

Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> writes:
> * If a change elsewhere breaks a maintained package in a non-obvious
>   way, the maintainers should make a reasonable effort to fix the
>   breakage in a timely fashion

I'd say that maintainers of things (packages) with reverse dependencies
should also try to help out their dependees when they do bumps likely to
break downstream packages. At least by scheduling such bumps at times
when they are going to be available for consulting, if nothing else.

Petr

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