Related to the discussion, apparently even Debian has trouble keeping-up with security updates: https://statuscode.ch/2016/02/distribution-packages-considered-insecure/ It's not a simple problem for sure.
On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 at 09:35 Adrien Devresse <a...@adev.name> wrote: > I think the inflow of PRs *is* high wrt. the number of active > contributors with push access. Certainly too much to keep quality very > high all the time, but on the other hand, for those less important > packages it's not a big deal... > > > The way the other distributions solved this issue is by distributing the > responsabilities. A model where a little minority has to approve / validate > the merge each package modification can not scale to a huge number of > packages. > > If you look at the Fedora/Debian model, each package maintainer is > responsible and has full commit access on their packages and only on their > packages. They do not need any merge, excepted when they stabilize the > unstable branch. This is quite similar to the way the Linux kernel > development works in this respect. > > > Adev~~ > > > > Le 21/02/2016 21:39, Vladimír Čunát a écrit : > > On 02/21/2016 09:10 PM, Patrick Callahan wrote: > > Does anyone here know what other distros do to engage more > developers+maintainers? Could we, among other things, organize some kind > of drive to encourage more systematic contributions? Or is integrating > all the current PRs too much work already for that to be helpful? > > > Well, I think the number of contributors grows fast enough since we > migrated to github:https://www.openhub.net/p/nixos/contributors/summary > > I think the inflow of PRs *is* high wrt. the number of active > contributors with push access. Certainly too much to keep quality very > high all the time, but on the other hand, for those less important > packages it's not a big deal... > > --Vladimir > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing > listnix-...@lists.science.uu.nlhttp://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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