On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 17:31 +0800, gan lu wrote:
In my opinion, Arch is the best distro can really do bleeding edge with stablility, thank devs for their excellent work. However due to some reasion (saying shortage of time, man power, instersts etc), some applications can't be updated in time. We can certainly flag it out of date in the web page easily, but is there a way we can record when it was flaged at the first time and count how many people (useres) want to flag it (like enable people to vote, but of course only send a remind email at the first/person )? Just my idea, I am not a programmer so don't blame me not to do it real by myself.
Once a package is flagged, it's flagged and it stays flagged. The maintainer gets a mail about the flagged package. The first thing I stated isn't actually true though: we can unflag packages, which we'll certainly do when people think development versions of packages like GTK are newer than the stable version in our repository. This happens on a daily basis when GNOME development releases are pushed to the FTP for example, or in cases when people think gnome-common should be 2.22.0 because GNOME is at 2.22.x (while there's only gnome-common-2.20.0 on the upstream FTP).