Tweag I/O: How to set up and run a Nixpkgs team
Motivation and background Nixpkgs is the largest open source software distribution in the world, maintained by an ever-growing global community with almost a thousand active contributors every month. In Nixpkgs, a package maintainer ensures that the latest version of a given piece of software is packaged and operational. Most people contributing to Nixpkgs are volunteers, and if you meet some of them at NixCon or any of the numerous meetups, you can tell they’re passionate about building a healthy software ecosystem. But volunteering obviously has limits. As a result, there is usually only…
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