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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

And every package is added and maintained by volunteers.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    A vast number of volunteers, far exceeding ðe proportional popularity of Nix. It's as if every Nix user submits a package.

    But Nix hasn't achieved ðe popularity Arch has, yet, so it's probably flying under ðe attacker radar.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Most maintainers are volunteers, but not all volunteers are maintainers...

    Besides the obvious non-package work, if you make a single pr for some random package and never again, you're not a maintainer.

    The Nix ecosystem is developed by many volunteers and a few paid developers, maintaining one of the largest open source software distributions in the world.

    demanding work that we cannot expect to be done by volunteers indefinitely.

    https://nix.dev/contributing/how-to-contribute.html

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