Excerpts from David Runge's message of julho 31, 2025 1:53 pm:
> On 2025-07-28 23:34:17 (+0200), Frederik Schwan wrote:
>>
>> What role would you like to play during the trial period of Martin?
>
> I would like to add, that the last interaction from Giancarlo in our internal
> channels (e.g. the packaging channel) has been in September of 2023.
> That is nearly two years and questions since have been left unanswered.
>
If you are refering to IRC channel, then yes, I haven't joined IRC in a while.
But I have interacted on gitlab with many people, including you, and recently.
> Giancarlo, to what extend can we expect packaging mentorship, if this has not
> happened (sufficiently) before Martin has sent his application?
> From a cursory look, I found a lot of things that should be improved and I am
> not happy about us now having to do a full review round over everything.
>
We have an active place where me, Tomaz and Martin are discussing this and
fixing issues.
> I'm asking this especially with regards to your packages maintained/
> out-of-date
> ratio vs. actual last packager 83/9/5 [1].
> E.g. even the latest package uploaded by you ("mkinitcpio-utils", for which
> you
> are also the upstream) doesn't follow RFC 0016 which has been readily
> integrated
> in pkgctl for a long time.
>
> Personally, I would really like to see an improvement of our package build
> scripts and metadata.
>
As I've said to Frederik, I would like to focus on Martin's application. Happy
to discuss this on another thread.
Regards,
Giancarlo Razzolini
