[Nix-dev] Limiting access to only maintained packages and ensuring core packages are maintained

[Thomas Hunger]

I'm mostly worried about leaning that I need to fix a package that I'm
maintaining. I care about fixing bugs and purging unmaintaned packages, but
most of the time I don't even see the report, or I know it's broken in
hydra until I test again locally.

Do you have any ideas around getting word out to maintainers sooner?

On 2 September 2016 at 21:22, Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I think a few changes might improve package stability a bit:
>
> 1. Add a nixpkgs config setting to throw an error on packages with no
>    meta.maintainers
> 2. Work to reach a point where a significant subset of nixpkgs (say,
>    release-small) is allowed on this list.
> 3. Remove maintainers after X weeks without reply on issues they're
>    tagged in about packages they maintain
> 4. (Optional) Separate out maintainers by system
>
> Thoughts on these?
>
> ~Shea
>
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