On 15 August 2010 04:06, Stefan Husmann <[email protected]> wrote: > But there nothing is said about contacting the current maintainer of an > AUR package. Maybe we should add that.
Sad story. As the years go by, the AUR is largely becoming a platform for competition - which is far from our intentions. The point of an unsupported repository of buildscripts is to allow mass contribution and _eventual_ promotion of useful and/or popular software packages. If I maintain a package in AUR, it is with the hope that it will someday get adopted by a TU/developer so that our users have direct access to a binary. It is for the betterment of each and every one of us. When I was once maintaining wicd, I was happy to get notified that it would be brought to extra. And that's right, you _should_ get notified, _before_ the process. The obvious medium for that is, of course, the AUR comments section. There is no need for a "reply" - as long as the AUR maintainer does not end up contemplating where her package disappeared to. It is then up to the TU/developer what other level of communication she wants to utilise. If there is no such relay of information, it is simply a case of bad manners. TUs should take this as a good reminder that there's no playing holier-than-thou here. And for the rest of us, remember that maintaining packages is not an exclusive business. -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD
