On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 08:00:40PM -0500, Aaron Schaefer wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 02:39:38PM -0600, kludge wrote: > >> if there is no voting on packages in [community], then what mechanism > >> exists for users to suggest/cheer on a package's promotion to [extra]? > >> > >> -kludge > > > > One users answer: > > > > Maybe the same mechanism that would move packages out of extra to > > unsupported or community? > > Its called pkgstats. pacman -S pkgstats and then exec pkgstats as root > > IIRC.
> My whole point in bringing all this up is that it seems like people > are treating pkgstats as a panacea, when I don't think it should be > the sole basis of all of these recent decisions. I absolutely support > the idea of pkgstats, but think that its still in its infancy and > should not be so blindly trusted. People have been suggesting > arbitrary limits and restrictions based on its numbers, but the > numbers themselves could be pretty far off base...and I think that's > the bigger problem. Anyways, this discussion has already been beaten to death. If you're unhappy with the way things are going then find a solution. Personally I prefer votes to pkgstats. If I care enough in their importance I may implement something that improves voting stats, and all that jazz. There's no point in writing novels if it's just fantasy.
