YES a TU should want to contact a contributor before "adopting" a package. It begins as a common courtesy that we ALL should expect of ourselves.
It is NOT a good idea to mandate anything concerning amount of votes. On this particular issue there has been much discussion in the past. A simple search of the archives will be of benefit to understanding more completely just how fruitless the voting truly is. Specifically it cannot and was not ever meant to be a milestone of ANY kind when created. Very best regards; Bob Finch On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 3:57 AM, Edward Tjörnhammar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Loui wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:28:41PM +0200, Edward Tjörnhammar wrote: >>> >>> I recently contributed a package 'inn' which I intend to continue >>> working on. The package was added to [community] so I will continue with >>> as inn-orig in AUR, user xhemi. If I were to become TU I believe that I >>> can help to improve any number of packages in need of love but would >>> continue with 'inn'. My sponsor is Sergej Pupykin. >> >> Hey Edward. I'm curious why you are maintaining a package in unsupported >> that also appears in [community]? Is there a particular difference between >> inn and inn-orig? >> >> > > Hello and sorry for the slow reply! > > The back story is that i wanted a usenet service except leafnode. This was > the only supported server at that time, so I decided to contribute 'inn' to > AUR. Sergej must have thought that it was a nice compilation since he moved > it to [community] with 0 votes. This however stopped me from working on it.. > So after having contacted Sergej, I decided to upload another package and > apply for TU, since both would allow me to continue to work.. The problem > back then was that certain combinations of configure flags would break the > build which I knew was very near a resolve. The package was only > semi-functional but, at least, working. > > When I, today, tested his build it works like a charm, so there is no need > for 'inn-orig'. In the end I haven't had the time to do any additional work > on the package. > > I will get back to you guys once more when I've had the time to review the > packaging guidelines and beautify the remaining builds. > > As a side note and discussion topic for you guys, I think that a TU should > not just move a package without any votes and that the TU should contact the > current owner before moving it. > > /e
