On 3/14/19 8:46 AM, Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public wrote:
There is a *lot* of small tools people have written over the years that resides in bin/ directories which could be useful for more people. We also have several such tools on soyuz, where sogrep was added to devtools this week.
I have been thinking it could be great to have a simple `contrib` repository where every team member has commit access. This could work as a staging area for tools we would like to promote to `devtools` later on.
We could maybe sort this into directories for its purpose: * packaging * security * devops * testing * bugwrangler * misc
Tools that can be added here is the `ch` scripts from Bluewind, and the pkg-* tools eli has created. I also have some tools to look for pkgname in archweb, check them out from svn and check them against a nvchecker file.
This would hopefully give us a space where we can experiment with new maintainer tools in a collaborative manner. I'd love to hear some feedback or thoughs on this!
I was fairly sure any user can create a git repo on our server. Look at "Developer Projects" on https://git.archlinux.org/ . Or use github, where some of these scripts are already located. I don't see the need for another repository. A