Also, note that dropping all the tarball handling code allows us for cleaning up the AUR a lot.
+1 On 24 June 2014 02:44, Lukas Fleischer <archlinux@cryptocrack.de> wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 at 09:20:08, 郑文辉 (Techlive Zheng) wrote:
[...] So, this means, all the maintainers have to use git to submit packages? Any thought on keeping the old package submission form and proceed the commit process on the server? which will allow normal people to contribute packages. [...]
I don't think the old package submission form will be supported any longer. All that package maintainers need to know is how to use git-add(1), git-commit(1) and git-push(1). Since package maintainers should have some very basic knowledge on VCS anyway, I don't think we expect too much here.
Also, note that dropping all the tarball handling code allows us for cleaning up the AUR a lot.