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On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 03:37:47PM +0100, Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote:
> "How I want Arch Linux to become, IMHO" - very humble!  Put your flamesuit 
> on, 
> mate!  Best of luck!


As someone who started using Arch back when it was unknown, I do think
it's going through  growing pains.  


It is unwieldy right now.  The FreeBSD port maintainer system is one
that basically works.  You first write the maintainer, if you don't get
an answer after awhile you send in a PR using a template they've created
and then, nine times out of ten, it gets done. 

(A good 7-8 times out of ten, a note to the port's maintainer gets the
problem fixed.  So, you're only sending a PR 2-3 times out of ten, then
out of that ten....oh, never mind, I digress.)

The contributor line doesn't hurt, but more important is the maintainer
line.   Now, if the maintainer disappears, it'd be nice if there were
something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] where one could send an email saying,
I've written the maintainer but had no response, blah blah. 


Anyway, some of the ideas were good, IMHO, and should be considered.
What is practical and what isn't is obviously a different story,
especially in what is still a labor of love. 


- -- 

Scott Robbins

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Cordelia: I do what I want to do. And I wear what I want to wear.
And you know what, I'll date whoever the hell I want to date... 
no matter how lame he is. 

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