I swear someones just using it as a harder drive at this point
there are so many strange issues with nix that i'm sort of regretting not going for guix as my user mode package manager.
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nixpkgs as a mono repo might've been a mistake, honestly. shithub wasn't made for monorepos. It doesn't have a permissions system for it.
So many PRs get a bunch of inane comments that have nothing to do with the functionality to please somebody's ego, the CODEOWNERS file is nearly worthless as "package maintainers" don't even have the last say on their own packages, docs are nearly the last of the priorities making it difficult for pretty much anybody but the christened cream of the crop to make changes. It almost seems like the entire thing was made for "job security" - only a few people really understand what's going on and thus make the decisions. That of course introduces a bottle-neck.
Even if more people wanted to contribute, they ~~wouldn't be~~ aren't able to. I think the decision makers like it that way.
You underestimate the free time people who live on those forums have. They've probably got every single one memorized.
Guix gang wya