Formalize creation of the stdenv team

Previously:

There are likely more, and I’d appreciate it if they were linked.

I’m interested in this topic, both as a reviewer, contributor, and stakeholder in Nixpkgs’ stability and continued evolution.

It’s not clear to me that it can or should be detangled from:

  1. Compilers and their build and use cycles.
  2. Flakes and their use of nixpkgs throughout the ecosystem.
  3. Bootstrapping, especially bootstrapping from source.
  4. Language ecosystems and their expectations.

So I’m expecting that even with a team that we’re going to have deeply cross-cutting concerns without the ability to speak with authority, due to the numbers of unknowns and the sorts of dependencies that are taken.

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