2007/10/14, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org>:
Pierre Schmitz schrieb:
But the border between [extra] and [community] does not seem to be that sharp. Does [extra] only include the most important and essential packages? Is [community] only a playground and a repo full of alpha releases?
Defining [extra] in a clear way should make it easier to cleanup this repo, too. We still have a lot of unmaintained or outdated packages.
To me this is easy: The core/extra/unstable repositories are maintained by the smaller group of Archlinux Developers, the community repository is maintained by the larger and less strictly controlled group of Trusted Users.
This is the only disctinction IMO. Everything we don't want to maintain due to lack of time and manpower will be handled by the TUs, who can grow their numbers easily.
Yes, but developers also can (and some of them do) maintain packages in community. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)