On 7/30/05, Casey McGinty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Maybe instead of voting, the AUR should track number of downloads, or
page hits ... something more automatic.
- Casey
Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote:
> Well, if it's not being voted up the list and into [community] there
> can't be a huge need for it. Although if people are using it from the
> AUR without voting then that's a problem too. I'm running a sustained
> campaign to get more people voting in the AUR
>
> Quoting me:
> "There are over 1000 pkgs in the AUR (yes that is 1000) and
> approximately 900 of them have less than 5 votes! I accept that many
> of the pkgs in the AUR are not universally popular or even useful but
> please remeber to vote for those that you actually use because I know
> for a fact that many of you don't!"
>
> Either way it has little to do with the dev or AUR team and is
> therefore the responsibility of the wider [community]. The facilities
> are there for packages such as these to be added to [current] and
> [extra], and if these processes are not being utilized then that's a
> shame.
>
> Of course, bringing it up on the mailing list or the forum is a good
> way to get some extra votes for it :) And, of course, a dev may
> immediately agree with you and seize on the opportunity to add
> smartmontools to the main repos ;)
>
> Phil
>
> Julian Wiesener wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 09:16 -0400, Martin Lefebvre wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Make a PKGBUILD, post it to aur.archlinux.org, and if people like it,
>>> they will most likely be included :)
>>>
>>
>>
>> there have been a view PKGBUILDs for smartmontools in AUR, it doesn't
>> help...
>>
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