On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 11:45:20AM -0700, Thomas S Hatch wrote: > Greg, You have a valid point, personally I have always asked the maintainer > of a package for objections before moving a package into community. I also > want to continue to express my deep gratitude for the packagers who > contribute to the AUR. They are really the frontline in Arch development, > the blood on the knife's edge. > > We as trusted users need to show the devs in the AUR the utmost respect and > appreciation. I would also like to point out: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TU_Person_Specification > All TUs we should adhere to the first bullet under "At Least" on this wiki > entry. > > I hope that my fellow TUs agree that we should give AUR contributors the > utmost respect, they deserve it. > > A behavior of respect will help us, the TUs, improve Arch, it will allow us > to bring more people onto the Arch development teams, and continue our march > to making Arch greater.
I personally asked for objections using AUR comments in most cases and waited some days before moving stuff. Nevertheless, I don't see a huge problem with just moving stuff. Moving a package to the binary repos shouldn't be regarded as stealing but as an improvement for the community. The AUR ain't a place for competitions (like "Which package has the most votes?" or "Who maintains the coolest packages?") but a place to provide source packages until a TU/Dev steps up and maintains the package in [community]/[extra]/[core]. Still, I'd prefer to have some announcement before moving a package. And another one just before removing it (so that users being notified about a package become aware of the move). AUR comments seem to be the appropriate place for this.
