Accessibility and obstacles to community contribution

Quite a lot of package update failures happen every day; I could see this getting unpleasantly noisy for people who maintain a lot of packages (either directly or via teams).

But it might be worth doing in some form. If r-ryantm encounters an unexpected error (nixpkgs-update already has several lists of packages it knows are borked) trying to update a package you maintain…

  • You would like to be mentioned in a GitHub issue
  • You would like a direct e-mail
  • You would like to be notified via some other mechanism
  • You would only want to be notified if some specific condition is met (and you will comment further)
  • You would prefer the status quo over being notified
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