Nixpkgs reviews stall on nits, stacked PRs, and approvals
Nixpkgs reviews drag on with nit comments and stacked PRs, and approvals do not reliably lead to merges.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
5 public reports · first reported 30 September 2026 · last reported 1 October 2026
What's going wrong
Contributors to Nixpkgs, the package collection for the Nix ecosystem, report that pull request reviews drag on for a long time.
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 5 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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