Now that's the kind of feedback I like ;). Challenge accepted. May I kindly ask if you are willing to discuss any ideas I will offer?
On Saturday, July 28, 2012, Loui Chang wrote: > On Sat 28 Jul 2012 10:00 +0200, Mario Mueller wrote: > > I'm a bit sad to see, that nobody seems to be interested in my > contribution > > proposal. No feedback, no support. I mean, I did not expect you to > welcome > > me with arms wide open, but a response to my proposal would be a minimum > > sign of respect. I wonder if you really want to change something or just > > want to leave it as it is? Maybe I just got wrong info? If do not want my > > help, just tell me and I will find another open-source project to > > contribute to. > > I see no compelling reason to redo years of work under another > language/framework just for that sake alone. I think people would like > to see some better reasons for this. > > Back before I got involved with the AUR there was a Brazilian project > that was trying to do the same thing as you. And later there was another > project 'AUR2' [1] that also had a similar goal. > > If you're going to rewrite the AUR I think you really need to offer > something that the current AUR can't offer from a user perspective. > You need to offer a paradigm shift, otherwise it's hard to entice > people to an unestablished and unproven codebase. > > For example, aur3 [2] (another independent project) is an interesting > take on the AUR. > > Making the AUR into 'yet-another-webapp-but-in-shiny-python' just isn't > interesting enough. We could rewrite CVS, but in shiny python but that > wouldn't be really interesting either. So, I'm glad git (and other dvcs) > came along. > > Don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to discourage your contribution. Just > trying to help you think outside the box. > > Cheers. > > [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_2 > [2] http://aur3.org/ > >
