On Mon, 2023-12-11 at 13:29 +0000, Polarian wrote:
5. Currently,to evaluate whether a AUR package is eligible to move in Arch Linux official packages (extra repo), It only depend on votes and popularity and whether there is a maintainer willing to pick it up. However, those factors is too lack of details. To evaluate the robustness of the eco-position of a package, It should evaulate the discussion, issue report, contribution, and ... And it should be evaluated case by case.
This is not an easy thing to address, boolean logic doesn't work here, do you want an AI to run over a PKGBUILD and try to guess how good it is?
A Stopover could be an unofficial repo made from auto-build AUR packages: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/unofficial_user_repositories#chaotic-aur This also helps to avoid packaging binaries vs build from source code a little bit.