msteen
Merge into Nixpkgs or become a Nix Community project
First of all, thank you for this great project!
nix-prefetch has already become mission-critical in the Nix ecosystem. However, the development seems halted, and Nixpkgs maintainer(s) sometimes need to bump the version with out-of-tree commit(s) (#33). It would be great if this project can be put under a shared-ownership environment, so that more people can join force with its development and maintenance.
The most direct way to integrate deeper with Nixpkgs is to merge into it. This way, all the Nixpkgs committers will be able to add changes and merge related PRs, and tests can be added to ensure that it works as other part of Nixpkgs changes.
To retain the administration over the project while inviting more people to become a committer, you can also get it included as a @nix-community project. That's also how rycee's Home Manager goes (it's still under active development). Such project can still be the upstream of an Nixpkgs package, taking poetry2nix as an example.
Per NixOS/nixpkgs#306721, it seems moving tooling in-tree is unpopular. It was suggested on that linked issue to ask on Matrix for creating a nix-community repo, but I don't have a Matrix account or homeserver.
FWIW I'm willing to help review PRs for and otherwise help maintain the project.
How does one add a project to nix-community with actually more people with full rights to close/merge/commit/etc?
Simply creating a discussion at https://github.com/orgs/nix-community/discussions may suffice? It seems that's how other projects got attention there. They can set up a team to maintain a repo, and people can be added to said team.
How does one add a project to nix-community with actually more people with full rights to close/merge/commit/etc?
@msteen Are you still interested in transferring this project to nix-community?