On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 20:51:37 +0530 Aniket Pradhan <aniket17133@iiitd.ac.in> wrote:
Hello Govind, and Everyone!
Thanks for your feedback.
Your arguments are on point, and I agree with you on the fact that the ideas do not apply to Arch.
If we can think of some better ideas (which apply to Arch, like the reproducible builds or the CLI tool as you discussed) we would need people to step up and mentor these ideas out of their free time. Moreover, if Arch is willing to include some community tools (who decides which tools should be included), we might get some more cool ideas, but in the end, we would also need someone to mentor the idea.
In the end, it all boils down to the availability of mentors. and ideas.
I also had this cool idea, where developers (who will act as mentors) can pitch in their ideas for community packages and select students through GSoC. This will provide them with the necessary help in developing the tool. However, then it would not be a "community-driven" package, would it?
There can be several flaws to this suggestion, but as Govind said, it would be amazing if others can share their opinion on this topic.
The only thing I can think of, which applies to Arch is implementing remakepkg features in pacman. I was going to add those in when I got around to it, but it's also worth doing for Google Summer of Code. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=236076