Most maintainers are volunteers, but not all volunteers are maintainers…
Besides the obvious non-package work, if you make a single pr for some random package and never again, you’re not a maintainer.
The Nix ecosystem is developed by many volunteers and a few paid developers, maintaining one of the largest open source software distributions in the world.
demanding work that we cannot expect to be done by volunteers indefinitely.
And every package is added and maintained by volunteers.
We’re called maintainers
Most maintainers are volunteers, but not all volunteers are maintainers…
Besides the obvious non-package work, if you make a single pr for some random package and never again, you’re not a maintainer.
https://nix.dev/contributing/how-to-contribute.html
If you add yourself to the maintainer list in your PR you’re a maintainer, even if it’s a maintainer of a single package