On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Aaron Griffin<[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Daenyth Blank<[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 17:03, Grigorios Bouzakis<[email protected]> wrote: >>> May i suggest something slightly relevant, but probably very radical? >>> Disable comments on AUR completely. >> >> I agree that comments are not terribly useful on community packages, >> but I think they're important for [unsupported]. Maybe for community >> packages, only allow comments from the *maintainer* (or TU). My >> preference is to leave it as is. Granted, sometimes people report >> issues for community packages on the comment page, but that's no worse >> than people emailing the maintainer directly (since that's still not >> on the bug tracker), and is better because it's more visible. > > Without sounding harsh - it's not my job. We've always harped on the > point that the TUs and community was an autonomous entity. What we are > doing here is enabling that even more so. If the TUs and/or AUR guys > want to disable comments, that's their prerogative, but there's no way > in hell I'm going to add "oh and fiddle with some PHP while we're at > it" to the list of things to do here.
Note, this reply was to Dolby's original comment in the other thread - it looks goofy the way I replied here
