nixpkgs-merge-bot

Introduction

Developed by Lassulus and Mic92 during #Oceansprint, we proudly introduce the nixpkgs-merge-bot. Celebrating the milestone of 5000 concurrent open pull requests on nixpkgs, we're enhancing the merging process with this bot! 🎉

Features

This bot empowers package maintainers by granting them the capability to merge PRs related to their own packages. It serves as a bridge for maintainers to quickly respond to user feedback, facilitating a more self-reliant approach. Especially when considering the scale of 3030 maintainers compared to just 203 committers, this bot is a game-changer.

To merge a PR, maintainers simply need to comment:

@nixpkgs-merge-bot merge

Upon invocation, the bot will verify if the conditions are suitable. If everything is in order, it merges the PR. Otherwise, it provides feedback through a comment detailing the discrepancies.

Constraints

To ensure security and a focused utility, the bot adheres to specific limitations:

• Only compatible with packages located under pkgs/by-name/*.

• For now we only allow pull requests done by r-ryantm to be merged

• Supports merging only into the master, staging, and staging-next branches.

• CI results validation is currently absent.