On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 12:56:25PM -0700, Casey McGinty wrote: > Maybe instead of voting, the AUR should track number of downloads, or > page hits ... something more automatic.
I vote +1 for this. > 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 ;) -- Evolution: Taking care of those too stupid to take care of themselves. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
