On 14/08/10 21:06, Stefan Husmann wrote:
Am 14.08.2010 20:13, schrieb Loui Chang:
On Sat 14 Aug 2010 19:22 +0200, Xyne wrote:
On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:43:37 +0300
Ionuț Bîru wrote:
On 08/14/2010 02:38 PM, Stijn Segers wrote:
Guys,
When I saw this discussion about sage-mathematics I was just wondering what is
customary when a TU
wants to adopt packages that are not his and are maintained by someone in the
AUR.
I had a couple of those (remmina-plugins and freerdp) and from one day to
another my packages were
'gone' from AUR. Only after that some TU sent me a message that he had taken my
packages. There was
nothing in the AUR ML about moving it.
Is this how this is usually done? I know developers aren't great communicators,
but it sure struck
me as impolite, rude even.
Thanks
yes. this is how we handle it. eventually we have to do that since you
or any other contributors can't commit to community and we want all our
users to easy access their favorite applications.
Is that really how we're supposed to handle it?
In my opinion, a TU should contact the current maintainer in advance to
discuss moving a package to [community]. Simply taking the package is
indeed impolite, regardless of the number of votes.
Beside, the threshold (which I thought we had raised to 25 votes) is
just a guideline. It's not as though a package must be moved
immediately as soon as it has the minimum number of votes. Some packages
even end up with several times the minimum number yet remain in the AUR
indefinitely (which is a good thing, as an active and interested AUR
maintainer is better than a disinterested TU).
The rule is that a package in unsupported must have at least 10 votes
before being moved into community without discussion.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines#Rules_for_Packages_Entering_the_.5Bcommunity.5D_Repo
There was a big 'so-called' debate about this awhile ago that resulted
in one TU quitting.
But there nothing is said about contacting the current maintainer of an
AUR package. Maybe we should add that.
Regards Stefan
--
For what it's worth i think that this should be added, one of my pkgs
was added to [community] recently without an email or any disscusion on
the ML. An email is just common courtesy really.
