On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 4:57 PM Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hugo Buddelmeijer <[email protected]> skribis: > > > I rated Nix's dedicated maintainers as a more important factor than > > their bot, because I don't see how a 'normal' bot can do the work > > required for many of these 30k updates. > > FWIW, I’ve been envying Nix on this for a while and so I’ve been trying > to understand their secret sauce. :-) > > From discussions I’ve had with long-time Nixpkgs contributors both in > real life and on Mastodon, they seem to agree that r-ryantm bot is a key > factor (which I didn’t expect).
I looked at the NixOS repo today, filtering Ryanbot [R], and it has - 002431 opened pull requests - 013524 closed unmerged - 128726 merged Further, they automate the generation of a lot of package sets, namely Haskell, Neovim and Elisp ones. Indeed their numbers on Repology are inflated by this Haskell set. A lot of success can be credited to these two things, I believe. [R] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+author%3Ar-ryantm > > Ludo’. >
