On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 11:04 -0700, Thomas S Hatch wrote: > 2011/1/13 Christoph <[email protected]> > > > Indeed! > > > > > > Even more OT, wouldn't it be kinda cool if there was a mailing list or > > > something where people could post simply with news of new packages? I > > can't > > > imagine it would be very high traffic, but it would be interesting to > > read > > > in order to try new software out. > > > > "AUR Home" tells me: > > Packages added or updated in the past 7 days: 2804 > > > > This makes an average of 400 per day, 16 per hour... > > In my opinion that's too many... > > > > Cheers, Christoph > > > > > I thought that the community contributions was the place to post about new > packages, thats where I put info about things like varch and libguestfs, but > I agree, some sort of pipe to talk about the new packages would be a nice > thing to have, while I recognize the scope of adoptions and package updates > I still think it is worth consideration. > > -Tom Hatch
I agree. Furthermore, I don't think everyone who updates or releases a package would make an announcement, so whilst it may be there are 16 submissions per-hour to the AUR, it's very unlikely that there would be 16 announcements per-hour on a mailing list created for the purpose of making such announcements. Of course, I'm not really in a position to say whether or not the potential level of traffic is too great, but I would like to see such a list implemented if it were at all possible. Regards, Joel.
