[paulgdp]

> Is nixpkgs really a monorepo as usually discussed? It's got packages, os modules, and some supporting scripts. Nix itself lives in a different place, so does the RFC planning, system artwork and a few other things. I would expect it all together to become a monorepo.

I think we can say it's a monorepo of packages in this context. Not everything from the Nix ecosystem is there. It could also bundle the website, wiki, doc etc but I don't think it matter too much.

> Debian has ~1.5k contributors, nixpkgs lists >3.5k maintainers. (Although that list is not pruned over time)

Thanks for the info, I heard that a long time ago and never checked myself! It's probably less as you say but still probably bigger than Debian.

I guess it makes sense because it's so much easier to contribute there than to Debian.