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### How to lose maintainer status

     

       
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### Losing maintainer status

     

       
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Maintainers who have become inactive on a given package can be removed.

     

       
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This helps us keep an accurate view of the state of maintenance in Nixpkgs.

     

       
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The inactivity measure is currently not strictly enforced.

     

       
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The maintainer is welcome to come back at any time.

     

       
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/*

     

       
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  List of NixOS maintainers.

     

       
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  List of active NixOS maintainers.

     

       
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   ```nix

     

       
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