Most systems already do the paper-trailing for us. They're known as logs. ----- Original Message ----- From: Karol Blazewicz Sent: 04/09/12 04:23 PM To: [email protected], Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR) Subject: Re: [aur-general] Automated Package Removal
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Daniel Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: >> It would also contribute less clutter to the mailing list and less hassle >> for people that make innocuous mistakes like mine. Bureaucracy cripples >> everything. > Yes, it's annoying (and inefficient and illogical) to require someone to sign > up to another service to ask for something to be done on the service they're > having issue with. Departmentalizing things is a sign of bureaucracy. Most > people dislike it in government, hospitals, business, and other institutions; > why on Earth would we voluntarily do it in FOSS? Especially when the majority > of problems (e.g. Deleting packages) can be solved by a machine. The 'paper trail' in bureaucracy is often used for accountability purpose. > Politics aside, I agree that a grace period would be good. But perhaps a > little longer than a single day? Maybe 3-7 days, to account for real life > getting in the way. You say you didn't properly test the package and you need up to a week to fix it? I guess the current system allows for such things too (albeit via a TU) so why not ...
