[Nix-dev] On nixpkgs and reasonable code size

[Patrick Callahan]

I think the topic trees idea is great. This is also how openSUSE does
things, and they've managed to reproduce something like a Github workflow
for packages across a wide range of distros. I think their capitalization
on this model, and the generous provision of a build cluster for public
use, are the two reasons we're seeing such a renaissance in the openSUSE
community right now. The other nice thing about this model is that I
already know where I would fit in (a 'robotics' topic), and I imagine many
other contributors feel the same way.

To get a clearer picture of what I'm talking about, take a glance at the
system of projects, subprojects, and repositories on openSUSE's public
instance of the Open Build Service here <https://build.opensuse.org/project>
.

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 8:08 AM Matthias Beyer <mail at beyermatthias.de>
wrote:

> On 21-02-2016 15:28:08, Bjørn Forsman wrote:
> > On 21 February 2016 at 15:17, zimbatm <zimbatm at zimbatm.com> wrote:
> > > tl,td; I think that we should split nixpkgs/pkgs in two
> >
> > Another way to do it is the Linux kernel way. Instead of splitting the
> > (git) repository in two (or more) pieces, split _maintenance
> > responsibility_ into a hierarchy. This is opposite to the flat
> > responsibility model NixOS development use today.
>
> I completely second this. The problem is IMHO _not_ that the repo gets big
> (there are other repos which are way, way bigger than nixpkgs) but the
> development model. AFAIK I said that before on this list. The problem is
> that
> everyone who wants to be a contributer gets push access to master. It just
> screams at you "I won't scale"!
>
> >
> > In such a model, PRs are initially made against a topic tree and then
> > each topic tree periodically submit aggregate PRs back to the main
> > tree.
> >
> > Some possible topic trees:
> >
> > * nixos (modules etc.)
> > * desktops environments (KDE, GNOME)
> > * package updates
> > * new packages
> >
> > Just my thoughts...
> >
>
> Exactly what I'd propose.
>
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> Matthias Beyer
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