NixOS/nixpkgs [1] was at some point last year one of the most active projects in GitHub. I can't find the ranking right now, but it should suffice to say it has 2083 contributors and 178334 commits right now. For a relatively young project, that is a lot.
There are tons of dedicated maintainers. You can see that in the maintainers attribute of most packages. So I don't get your point regarding the lack of dedicated maintainers.
I maintain several packages there, and a bot sends me an automated message every time upstream updates the source, and auto-generates a new package definition for me. Things are really streamlined and bleeding edge. The unstable channel is often more up-to-date than Arch Linux even, due to the high number of Nix developers.
Thanks for the insight in the maintainer story of Nix. I guess it is kinda the same for guix and this more or less invalidates my concerns. So maybe the next time, I reinstall my OS, it's gonna be one of those :)
There are tons of dedicated maintainers. You can see that in the maintainers attribute of most packages. So I don't get your point regarding the lack of dedicated maintainers.
I maintain several packages there, and a bot sends me an automated message every time upstream updates the source, and auto-generates a new package definition for me. Things are really streamlined and bleeding edge. The unstable channel is often more up-to-date than Arch Linux even, due to the high number of Nix developers.
[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs