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nixpkgs

Package maintenance in the Nix ecosystem: a hundred-odd pull requests since 2019, a dozen packages and a NixOS module under the studio's name.

Role
Maintainer
Period
2019–2026
Stack
Nix, NixOS
Source
github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pulls?q=author%3AFlorianFranzen
Website
github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
nixpkgs mark

Nix is how the studio ships anything reproducibly, so keeping the packages it relies on healthy is part of the job. In nixpkgs the studio maintains jp2a, workstyle, the waybar NixOS module and a group of Python packages around Sphinx (sphinx-markdown-parser, sphinx-material, sphinx-serve, scikit-build, css-html-js-minify, unify, untokenize), and co-maintains bacon, flip-link, polkadot, subxt, segger-jlink, waybar and reuse.

Beyond the packages themselves the pull requests range from kernel, BlueZ and Waydroid fixes to the initial packaging of tools the Rust and Polkadot ecosystems needed in nixpkgs. The current batch restores a set of GTK themes after the removal of the GTK 2 engine they depended on.