The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

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The Nixpkgs core team has unfortunately decided to disband. We’re proud to have had the opportunity to lead by example in bottom‐up, consensus‐focused governance for Nixpkgs, and of our achievements over the past 10 months, including reforming the committer delegation process and onboarding 19 new committers, empowering maintainers by extending the merge bot, re‐establishing contact with GitHub and securing the sponsored Enterprise Cloud upgrade, helping triage GHSA-67f2-674w-6g63 and track the...

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Original publisher	NixOS Discourse
Canonical URL	https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixpkgs-core-team-has-disbanded/79413
Publication time	Sat, 08 Aug 2026 01:12:45 +0000
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