On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93@gmail.com> wrote:
On 09/01/2016 02:20 PM, Diego Viola wrote:
Well, I understand maintainers are busy, but it is your job as a maintainer to communicate effectively, if I put some package up for others to use it, it is MY responsibility to tell users I won't be able to update or respond quickly.
You can't expect all your users to maintain their own PKGBUILD for outdated packages just because some maintainer is busy or being lazy.
As an AUR maintainer, I try to update as soon as I can. And I think I do a pretty good job with that.
But not everyone can, because not everyone has the time. And 10 days is not a lot of time to allow for Real Life interference.
Standard Arch Linux policy is "don't bug the TUs, they will get around to updating things when they have the chance".
More TUs is the only conceivable solution to the problem of "the current group of TUs don't, as a group, have the spare time to update all packages, immediately upon being flagged out of date". So, what exactly is your problem with the TUs having a life out of Arch Linux (which they have no obligation to and contribute to on a purely voluntary basis)?
No, I'm not saying that, please let's not make this personal, it's not. I'm also OK compiling my own bitcoin-qt or whatever, I'm just concerned there are many outdated packages as of late, and what makes Arch so special to many people is the rolling release part and up to date packages.
Personally, I think as a general rule of thumb the TUs do a great job at maintaining a distro that is significantly less obsolete than the majority of other distros. And I don't get upset when a relative handful of packages lag behind *less than on the aforementioned alternative distros*.
-- Eli Schwartz
Thanks, Diego