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    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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