2011/10/9 Ángel Velásquez <[email protected]>: > Hi people, > > I've been orphaning a list of packages in the few days, but I do want > to find a maintainer first before orphaning them (*tsk* *tsk* for > non-TU maybe if you're interested in some of them is time to apply to > be a TU :D). > > Reasons to orphaning these packages are enough like (I don't need or > won't use them on the near future, or I stopped recently to follow the > development of them for whatever reason), so, if none of the TUs are > interested on these packages and nobody wants to be a TU in order to > maintain them, they will unfortunately go to AUR waiting for a new > maintainer. > > Some of them have opened bugs, are out of date, please if you think in > adopt those packages is not just "bump the pkgrel" .. please take care > of the bugs, updates, patches, etc. > > The mentioned list is: > > ctpl > eclipse-emf > eclipse-gef > eclipse-mylyn > eclipse-phpeclipse > eclipse-subclipse > eclipse-ve > geany > geany-plugins > lxappearance > lxdm > lxlauncher > lxpanel > lxsession > lxtask > lxterminal > perl-linux-pid > pidgin-musictracker > pidgin-otr > tora > > Thanks > > -- > Angel Velásquez > angvp @ irc.freenode.net > Arch Linux Developer / Trusted User > Linux Counter: #359909 > http://www.angvp.com >
Should nobody want/be able to keep them in the community repository and they end up dropping in to AUR, I would be happy and willing to maintain lx* packages. Whilst I would of course like to become a TU and contribute further, I'm not sure I'm up to the level required of the TUs at present. Regards, -- Joel Heaton
