On 04.10.2011 18:51, Stefan Husmann wrote: > Am 03.10.2011 19:20, schrieb Massimiliano Torromeo: >> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Thomas S Hatch<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> I hope I did not derail this too much, your packages look good, and >>> your >>> github account is very impressive! It looks like you have the >>> motivation and >>> the competency to help maintain and uphold the Arch way . >> >> Thanks! >> >> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Stefan Husmann >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Massimiliano, I saw you have some ruby packages in your github repo, >>> but >>> you did not mention ruby as a language you have skills in. I think >>> we lack >>> someone with that skill. >> >> My experience with ruby so far has been more from the side of a >> sysadmin. As a developer I have basic knowledge of the language to >> understand what's going on, and even to patch code when there is need >> for it. >> I would dare to say that I have basic knowledge of most of the more >> popular languages, except for functional programming which I really >> can't get myself to like at all. >> > That's more than I can tell from me. >>> I maintain pngcrush in AUR and thought myself to bring it to >>> [community]. >>> The main reason for not doing so was that we have optipng there, >>> which does >>> entirely the same as pngcrush. >> >> I didn't know about optipng, I will check into it, and since there is >> already a TU behind pngcrush I will probably leave it out of the list >> then. >> > If you become a TU feel free to decide differently than I did. My > remark was > merely meant as a question to the other TUs what to do in such a case. > > Regards Stefan >
I don't see anything wrong with having officially maintained alternatives unless one of them is vastly superior to the other or even an official successor.
