On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 1:06 AM Anderson Torres <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
That alone is 128,726 public domain contributions. > 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. ... and potentially tens to hundred-plus thousand more. Guix makes use of similar tools. The issue is provenance, not public domain.
