On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Xavier <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Daenyth Blank > <[email protected]<daenyth%[email protected]>> > wrote: > > > > Judging by the level of maturity and calmness shown in this thread, I > > think he really has improved since last time. For what it's worth, I > > voted to abstain, as I hadn't had much interaction with him either > > way. Perhaps next time around I'll change that. I can definitely see > > progress here. > > > > This is not really my business as I am not a TU, and haven't been > involved with Laszlo on any packaging problems or AUR2 development.. > but as I might be the biggest Laszlo's hater, I might have a word to > say. Also it could look weird that someone gets rejected twice and no one > has anything really bad to say, so hopefully I am going to fix that :) > > However, I have to admit I have big troubles staying calm and mature > every time I was involved with him. But that's the whole problem. > > I could write a book about all the times Laszlo pissed me off. > Probably 99% of that was about pacman development. But Loui's > experience with him (probably for AUR) was apparently not much better, > at least back then : > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2009-July/006081.html > > By the way, this is not really a bad first impression. Laszlo has been > active on pacman bug tracker or mailing list between June and > November. It started quite bad, it became worse and worse, it was > still very bad at the end. > > It would really take me a lot of times to gather all the WTFs, so what > about the last one in date ? > I recently got this link : > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg05895.html > And here is my sumup (^W interpretation) : > - he submits a bunch of minor/trivial pacman patches to frugalware in > October and November > - he spams/offends Miklos about getting push access to the repository > (just for the record and comparison : in Archlinux world, there are > several competent long-time contributors, and only Dan has push access > to the master git repo) > - he adds himself on top of the second list of authors, for his > excellent contributions : > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg05892.html > - he wants his name to appear on every manpage, even the ones he has > nothing to do : > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg05902.html > - after that, he disappears > > Note that I count this as one story. I have 20 others to tell about > what happened in the archlinux/pacman world. But the bug tracker has > the whole history, and the mailing list archives are all publicly > available, so no reason I should waste my time more. > This might be my main problem with him : he's a big time waster. He is > also "extremely annoying" and " doesn't understand boundaries when it > comes to communication" , as Loui very correctly observed back then. > > It is still possible that he has only good intentions, and all these > problems are only caused by a language/cultural gap , or a maturity > problem. Who knows. >
A simple search for vim in the aur and look at the PKGBUILD files of the orphaned pkgs says a lot. Sorry to jump in. enderst
