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Morning Edition · Saturday, August 8, 2026Published at 2:26 AM EDT · New York
The Nixpkgs Core Team Has Disbanded Ten Months After It Was Created
The group formed in September 2025 to give one of the largest open-source package collections a consensus-based technical leadership, and it has now stepped down.
The Nixpkgs core team announced its dissolution on the NixOS forum. The team was established in September 2025 as part of a governance reform, with a mandate to provide technical leadership for Nixpkgs through bottom-up, consensus-focused d…
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