Nixpkgs PRs that pass CI wait months for review
Nixpkgs pull requests that pass CI wait months for a maintainer review or merge, and authors re-post them for attention.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
10 public reports · first reported 4 October 2026 · last reported 12 October 2026
What's going wrong
Pull requests to Nixpkgs, the Nix package collection, often pass continuous integration checks and then sit for months without a maintainer reviewing or merging them.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 10 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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