I’m new to Nix and wanted to get my feet wet by using the Nix package manager. However, I wasn’t sure how these packages were made. Are these packaged by the community? Who do I need to “trust” when installing these packages? In general, I was looking for info on how nix packages are made and maintained.
That’s an easy question. In the main Github repo you can fin the insides which shows the contributers with the latest commits: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/graphs/contributors
And in the cloned repo the command
git shortlog -sne --all | wc -llists a total number of 8636 contributers to Nix packages.