Hello nut, please do not quote the entire text of the message you are replying to, or chances are I won't read it next time and at the same time get the strong urge to send you to hell :)
> nut543(really at work now): I've said it before and i'll say it again; > NOONE of this is needed if we had more of a wiki'ish system like me > and phrakture have talked about in the past > > HERE: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg10504.html Yes. > You want to alleviate the problems that you are facing? Well the > above is the only viable solution unless you want to build a friggin > "stable" distro. (which btw, old packages != stability anyway) Yes. > You could increase the TU size or increase some hierarchial system > like most distros do but that would only be to shift the problem on > to some supposedly elite group of users who frankly only represent a > percentile of the real man-power out there. Look at the PKGBUILD's > posted to the AUR; there are doctors, physicists, mathematicians, > sysadmins etc etc; we have a very capable bunch that's dying to help > out, if only the infrastructure was there to help them do it. They > don't want to post to the bugtracker only to be told "i'll get to it > when i have the time" when they know perfectly well that they could > have fixed the issue already, for all future users if they had the > oppurtunity. Yes. Although bug reports that have solutions in them tend to get closed quickly in general. > WHEN YOU COULD HAVE JUST FIXED THE ISSUE AND HELPED OUT OTHER USERS > > Why isn't this glaringly obvious that we need to fix? It probably is (that is, I can clearly see the point of that, and I think a lot of other people might, too). The questions most likely is just this: who's going to do it? I volunteer to participate, despite having an awful shortage of time at the moment. I consider this to be a very important thing and would like to urge everyone to call out if they have some time and skills to spare on this. > I very much support phrakture's idea of an implementation aswell, and > maybe just a good old fashioned wiki with a repo section and an AUR > section where devs could grab PKGBUILD's as they are updated by the > users would really be the best unless someone steps up that wants to > build this cool new system and get interviewed from all the papers > afterward ;D The question is: what do we do with AUR? It's a very nice interface and well-suited. A Wiki, OTOH, while easy to set up and maintain, would not be that, would it? Leslie -- Personal homepage: https://viridian.dnsalias.net/~sky/homepage/ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys DD4EBF83
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