Many meta.maintainers do not have commit access, that's the main
bottleneck that causes hours/days/weeks/months delay.
This should not be so. A "maintainer" that does not have commit
access cannot maintain and is thus not actually a maintainer.
I'm currently listed as maintainer (15 packages) or co-maintainer (1 package)
and I do not have commit access. Generally, the guys with commit access are
very quick to respond and turn things around.
Even if I had direct commit access, in the vast majority of cases, a change
would still involve a public PR to solicit feedback (and the feedback is
normally very constructive).
Exceptions are obviously security sensitive fixes.
Disclaimer: I'm coming from from the world of Debian which has a
drastically different maintenance model. I don't really understand
how NixOS's model works and am not confident that anyone does.
A public statement on the maintenance model (security issues) might not
be a bad idea.
/Peter
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