Hi, On 2026-07-08 at 19:38+02:00, Hugo Buddelmeijer wrote: > Adding a new package to [nixpkgs] requires you to either > become a maintainer yourself, or find someone > who is willing to adopt the package.
For context, when I was an active contributor to nixpkgs (2020-2024), the maintainer field merely meant "subscribers to its issues and PRs". A large part of updates are proposed by Ryan's bot, approved by a "maintainer", merged by someone else with commit right, and finally land on the user channel after CI finishes building. In my analysis a couple weeks ago, 30k/32k packages in our channel has no more than 300 dependants so their update could be triggered by a bot without overwhelming CI. For the rest two thousand "core" packages (not to be confused with packages adopted by team core-packages), I think regular release as a core channel would be more efficient than getting topic branches to rebuild the same packages over and over. Best wishes, Phong
