> From: Drew DeVault via aur-general <[email protected]> > Sent: Thu Feb 28 04:25:10 CET 2019 > To: Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR) > <[email protected]> > Cc: Drew DeVault <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [aur-general] Trusted user application: Drew DeVault > > > On 2019-02-28 2:22 AM, Levente Polyak via aur-general wrote: > > > For the AUR I don't keep up with upstream releases, I just wait for > > > someone to mark the package as outdated. For Alpine Linux I use a > > > combination of subscribing to the upstream -announce mailing list and > > > subscribing to GitHub releases as appropriate; would do something > > > similar for Arch Linux community. > > > > Well, to be honest its the maintainers responsibility to keep track of > > upstream and not outsource out of date flagging to someone else. There > > is no difference between [community] and AUR for something that is a > > maintainer responsibility. > > I respectfully disagree. The barrier to entry for the AUR is almost > nonexistent and there's no expectation of support or quality - from Arch > Linux or from the maintainers. I take some degree of personal pride in > having nice AUR packages, but I also have a limited amount of time. Of > course, I take my responsibility as maintainer much more seriously when > working with packages in official repos. >
>From TU candidates there is very high expectation of support and quality and >AUR is the place where they can prove it. If the lack of time is a problem then it will still be a problem after promotion. Saying that you will treat your maintainer work seriously only after you get promoted doesn't earn you much trust. Yours sincerely G. K.
