Sandro
July 23, 2023, 7:47pm
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I removed myself as a package maintainer from over 250 packages in treewide: reduce packages I maintainer by SuperSandro2000 · Pull Request #245063 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub .
If anyone wants to pick up those, feel free to send a PR.
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Thank you for what you’ve done.
I decided to pick up a handful of packages that I am interested in maintaining
NixOS:master
← figsoda:maintain
opened 09:09PM - 23 Jul 23 UTC
###### Description of changes
@SuperSandro2000 dropped himself from some pack… ages in #245063, I decided to adopt a few that I'm interested in maintaining
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###### Things done
- Built on platform(s)
- [ ] x86_64-linux
- [ ] aarch64-linux
- [ ] x86_64-darwin
- [ ] aarch64-darwin
- [ ] For non-Linux: Is `sandbox = true` set in `nix.conf`? (See [Nix manual](https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/conf-file.html))
- [ ] Tested, as applicable:
- [NixOS test(s)](https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/unstable/index.html#sec-nixos-tests) (look inside [nixos/tests](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/tests))
- and/or [package tests](https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/unstable/#sec-package-tests)
- or, for functions and "core" functionality, tests in [lib/tests](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/lib/tests) or [pkgs/test](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/test)
- made sure NixOS tests are [linked](https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/unstable/#ssec-nixos-tests-linking) to the relevant packages
- [ ] Tested compilation of all packages that depend on this change using `nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review rev HEAD"`. Note: all changes have to be committed, also see [nixpkgs-review usage](https://github.com/Mic92/nixpkgs-review#usage)
- [ ] Tested basic functionality of all binary files (usually in `./result/bin/`)
- [23.11 Release Notes](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2311.section.md) (or backporting [23.05 Release notes](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2305.section.md))
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For clarification, and if you don’t mind answering: does this indicate any change in your involvement with the project, or you just don’t want to maintain those packages anymore?
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Sandro
July 24, 2023, 11:01pm
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If I am honest, I have accumulated some gruft over the last year(s?) and some of those packages I couldn’t even tell you (anymore) what they were doing actually.
3 weeks ago I also dropped ddclient which I maintained at best half-hearted over the last year and it kinda bothered me. Other things always had higher priorities, so I never fixed a significant caching bug in the last release from October.
I am still maintaining just above a 100 packages in nixpkgs and most of them I use directly or have high interest in them.
Also just yesterday I went through the almost 500 remaining GitHub notifications I still had, hopefully trying to keep them near zero and I already had over 100 today. I should probably more aggressively unsubscribe and unwatch from noisy things.
I hope I can use the extra time for the other fun and shiny hobbies.
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thank you for all your efforts
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