I think that at minimum even an automated email with "Hey the package you maintained on AUR is now in extra/blah, your repository or parts of it may or may not have been used, thank you for your contributions!" sent to the Maintainer and Co-Maintainers of the package at the time would go a long way and would have zero controversy. Some of my things were adapted and I was confused and had to spend time figuring out what happened that could have been used elsewhere. Martin On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 11:45 AM Shawn Michaels <shawn_michaels@gmx.ch> wrote:
On October 22, 2024 10:34:58 AM GMT+02:00, Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net> wrote:
On Tue, 2024-10-22 at 12:02 +0800, Ling Yang(杨令) wrote:
However, with his AUR repository being disabled, there is no way for people to learn about his work, and it seems as though his contributions to the Arch community have never existed.
Hi,
far too much importance is attached to this point. For example, take a look at an important official package. Although the names of the contributors and maintainers should be familiar to anyone who has been using Arch Linux for a long time, hardly anyone will have taken a look at the PKGBUILD.
Regards, Ralf
Employers do like to see open source contributions and I could see it being useful when applying for a position.