On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Grigorios Bouzakis<[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/6/26 Angel Velásquez <[email protected]>: >> Sometimes the maintainer in this case is a Dev or a TU, and eventually >> they are full of work and they doesn't reply the emails or let the >> packages out of date or with bugs (in the AUR history *this* fact is >> happening), what should do the user in this case?: >> >> 1.- send an email to the ml? --> will be ignored by everypeople. (and >> probably the maintainer, and plus force the user to subscribe to the >> ml, maybe the user isn't a packager, just an user reporting anything >> like "this package shouldn't depend on bla bla") >> 2.- "open a bug report", come on dude, not every people will register >> to the bt to fill a bug report, maybe if one account will work for >> everything, but this is not the case. >> 3.- Open a bbs thread (pfff hehee .. I just will laugh about it) >> 4.- IRC? (why if maintainer isn't active on that?) >> >> And plus, sometimes Comments helps the maintainer of a package a LOT. >> >> So, this discussion is irrelevant, please when you do an upgrade you >> don't remove features at least these are unuseful, and reading this >> thread, more people are agree to keep the comments. >> >> Thanks >> > I already replied to these many times. > > Do you know of another project that enables user comments? I know of none. > Yet they seem to get by fine with mailing lists, IRC channels, and > personal emails. >
See for example a project somewhat close to the AUR: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2690 > Anyway: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15265 > > -- > Greg > -- Greg
