On 2 January 2011 04:15, Xyne <[email protected]> wrote: > Florian Pritz wrote: > >> I noticed tenshi [1] hasn't been updated for quite a while and I'd like >> to maintain it (and perl-io-bufferedselect which is a dependency in >> newer versions and not yet in AUR/repos) in community if 1) the current >> maintainer is okay with that and 2) three TUs agree because it sadly >> doesn't satisfy the 10 votes or 1% usage rule. >> >> I've got a working PKGBUILD for 0.12 and I'm already using it on my >> systems. In case I can't move it to community I'll publish that later. >> >> CC'ing the current maintainer (Ryan). >> >> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14088 >> >> -- >> Florian Pritz -- {flo,[email protected] >> > > There are two unrelated issues here. The first is that you want to actively > maintain a package that you use and which appears to be neglected by its > current maintainer. If the maintainer does not update the package in response > to your email or says that you can take it, then it's obviously fine for you > to > take it. The maintainer may respond by updating it though, as he's been active > as recently as October. > > The second issue is one of moving this to [community]. The package has been in > the AUR for 3 years yet only has 6 votes. I doubt that it takes long to > compile either, so why do you want to move it to [community]? I see no benefit > in doing, and it will only complicate maintenance for you. I think you should > just maintain it in the AUR, at least until it reaches the vote threshold.
+1 leave it in the AUR.
