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by jonringer117 1611 days ago
Currently, there's 8.7k stars, 7.2k forks. And 2000+ maintainers have added themselves: https://repology.org/repository/nix_unstable

So, I would say a pretty large portion.

Also, the contribution model for nixpkgs is just opening a PR, so it's a fairly low (non-technical) barrier-to-entry for most contributors.