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

[Bardur Arantsson]

On 2016-09-02 23:16, Shea Levy wrote:
> Why can't people use the commit logs to see who is knowledgeable?

Are you thinking of something like https://github.com/facebook/mention-bot ?

This fails in the case where someone does a big cross-cutting (i.e. not
concerned with particular packages) refactor which happens to touch a
lot of code. Suddenly you'd get a huge number of notifications about
*every package under the sun*.

(Why, yes, I *have* been the 'victim' of this type of thing in a GitHub
repo where the project uses mention-bot. Now, some of that may simply be
due to the algorithm that mention-bot uses, but it's pretty hard to
avoid unless you're *somehow* able to algorithmically distinguish
large-scale cross-cutting refactors from actual package maintenance
changes.)

Regards,