[2024-2025] Nixpkgs committer nominations

[Mic92]

This issue is not used anymore, refer to this section instead: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-committers?tab=readme-ov-file#nominations

Original

Hi, the purpose of this issue is to nominate new nixpkgs contributors for commit access to nixpkgs. The process is described in [nixpkgs-committers org documentation](https://github.com/NixOS/org/blob/main/doc/nixpkgs-committers.md).

@lorenzleutgeb also wrote a script to summarize past GitHub contributions. However more importantly we value when nominees work well together in the community and take ownership for their mistakes.

If you have questions regarding becoming a nixpkgs maintainer, you can contact the Nixpkgs committer delegation team:

• @NickCao
• @jtojnar
• @winterqt

[mweinelt]

I want to nominate @emilazy, who recently carried the OpenSSH SIGALARM vulnerability across all branches and even wrote an advisory and took the time to answer questions and construct a timeline.

Emily has 75 merged PRs and over 100 reviewed PRs. She has been contributing on and off since 2019, and contributed for example the initrd OpenSSH migration.

I think it would be beneficial to further enable a capable person like her.

[emilazy]

Thank you for the nomination! I’d be happy to accept the commit bit if offered. I’ve frequently had long absences from FOSS work in the past several years, so I can’t guarantee availability, but I’d like to be able to contribute more consistently going forward. In the wider ecosystem I’m also a nix-darwin committer so I’m reasonably familiar with the module system, and I helped nix-darwin and Home Manager migrate from the old DocBook documentation toolchain to unblock its removal from Nixpkgs. The biggest thing I’ve done recently was working on removing Mesa as a channel blocker on Darwin, which had caused significant issues and friction in the past. I’m a user of both macOS and Linux and would like to continue to help bridge the gap between the two platforms in terms of maintenance and quality.

[willcohen]

I’d like to apply for the commit bit (and also happy to wait if that makes more sense.)

My first contribution and introduction to Nix was in 2021-2022, to upstream to QEMU an old patchset to enable 9pfs on Darwin, thus allowing for fixing up remote file support on QEMU and thus lima and podman on Mac, with many thanks to @alyssais and @domenkozar in guiding me through all that: NixOS/nixpkgs#122420

Since then, I’ve added a couple smaller packages and fixed up others to work better on Mac. My focuses are around GIS software on Mac (my longstanding white whale is to get QGIS working on Mac, which is both close and far: NixOS/nixpkgs#157862), keeping emscripten up to date (usually some LLVM tip of tree backports with the help of @RaitoBezarius), Clojure stuff, the occasional dabbling in random JS or Perl packages here and there, and fixing broken things on Mac. I’ve been a little quieter the last year as work focuses pulled me a bit away from programming, but I’m working my way back in to it this summer. I know there’s a perennial need for capacity on Darwin (ie NixOS/nixpkgs#323144) and that a combo of lack of testing and lack of ability to review or land fixes is a big pain point, and would mostly like to help keep those PRs moving in a timely manner.

58 merged PRs: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pulls?q=sort:updated-desc+is:pr+author:willcohen+is:merged

52 reviews:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pulls?q=sort:updated-desc+is:pr+reviewed-by:willcohen+-author:willcohen (edited to remove my own PRs, thanks @eclairevoyant)

No NixOS modules yet — I’m still predominantly Mac-centric, though I sometime play with it in a VM.

[eclairevoyant]

76 reviews of closed PRs, though probably a third of those are nixpkgs-review output of my own PRs:

You can filter those out with -author:willcohen; filtering out own PRs should be done in general for all PR review queries.

[lorenzleutgeb]

You can filter those out with -author:willcohen; filtering out own PRs should be done in general for all PR review queries.

I added this condition to the script mentioned in OP.

[gador]

I like to express my interest in a commit bit, too.
I've been working with NixOS and nixpkgs since 2021 and started contributing since then. Currently I maintain or co-maintain 51 packages.
Recently I wrote the blendfarm module and updated a few modules in the past.
I have the most experience with python, but also some experience with c++, qt, shell and a bit of go. My usual systems involve x86_64-linux, but I also have aarch64-linux and aarch64-darwin systems on which I can test packages or modules.

I'd like to use my commit bit to help merge already reviewed packages and to reduce the time it takes to merge simple updates. When time permits, I look through the pr ready for review thread on discourse and add my 2 cents.

• 226 PRs merged
• 99 PRs reviewed

[Mic92]

@emilazy @gador @willcohen Welcome to the team! Sorry for the delay. We (nixpkgs team admins) are currently discussing, where we are moving future applications, but until then we stick to this issue.

[infinisil]

I'd like to nominate @philiptaron! They've been super helpful in co-maintaining https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-check-by-name, but have also been active in Nixpkgs with

• 108 PRs merged
• 194 PRs reviewed

[donovanglover]

I'm interested in committer rights to merge the pull requests of others and update packages I maintain.

Notable PRs:

• crystal: add PKG_CONFIG_PATH nixpkgs#242512
• tuba: add webp support with webp-pixbuf-loader nixpkgs#325365
• nixos/nixos-containers: add restartIfChanged option nixpkgs#260291
• nixos-container: add missing restart command nixpkgs#244584
• nixos/testing: fix markdown link in enableOCR description nixpkgs#311814

Stats:

• 68 PRs merged
• 172 PRs reviewed

[mattpolzin]

I'm interested in commit privileges. I reckon I'm on the low end for existing contributions to nixpkgs so no hard feelings if I just don't have the exposure yet to warrant committing; I think my bid for more responsibility is as much grounded in my record of maintenance across a number of OSS communities (most recently Idris2 and beam-community) as it is in nixpkgs PRs merged thus far. The reason I believe that is relevant is because I know how to show restraint and gradually assert myself in more places as I gain confidence that I know the established precedents.

My primary areas of interest in nixpkgs are: The Elixir ecosystem (PRs), Idris2 (PRs), and Darwin (PRs). I also have a vested interest in the Ruby ecosystem, NixOS, and the overall health and success of nixpkgs!

• 34 PRs merged
• 74 PRs reviewed
• Maintaining 5 Packages

[Mic92]

@philiptaron welcome to the team.

[Mic92]

@donovanglover welcome to the team as well.

[Mic92]

@mattpolzin Not a reject, but none of us (@jtojnar, @NickCao and me) knows you very well, so we would like to know if there is a person from the community you have interacted with and who can vouch for you?