Nixpkgs pull requests wait weeks without reviewers
Nixpkgs pull requests sit for weeks with no reviewer assigned, so contributors keep reposting them for review.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
7 public reports · first reported 29 September 2026 · last reported 2 October 2026
What's going wrong
Contributors to Nixpkgs, the package collection for the NixOS Linux distribution, report that their pull requests often sit for two to four weeks without any reviewer being assigned.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
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