There are 200 Nixpkgs committers with access to merge any PR. You can nominate yourself or another contributor to become a Nixpkgs committer. This should be done by following these instructions.
The Nixpkgs core team currently fills the role of the Nixpkgs committer delegation team and is given the responsibility and authority of changing the list of Nixpkgs committers.
- The process must be publicly documented (this document)
- Any change to the process must be unanimously agreed upon by all delegation team members
- Any change in the list of committers must be publicly documented
- Addition of a committer must be agreed upon by all delegation team members
- Removal of a committer only requires agreement of a single delegation team member