On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 08:25:11PM -0500, Dan McGee wrote:
We now have 29998 packages and counting in the AUR, of which 8122 have never been updated since initial upload, and I would guess another 8000 are also steaming piles of...something.
My suggestion is a moderation deletion/cleanup queue that is visible only to Trusted Users to prevent the public from seeing it as a numbers game, and to prevent abuse. It would work as follows:
1. Package pages get a "Flag as Sh*t" (or equivalent) button, available to all logged in users. Perhaps there is a "reason" box. 2. Users start flagging packages. Whether a package has been flagged or not is not visible to anyone except TUs. 3. These flaggings are tracked and a TU moderation page is available for perusal. Heading the list are packages that got the most bad votes in descending order. Next might be those packages that have never been updated. 4. TUs can then review, on their own time, these bad packages. From there, they can do one of three things: a) delete it on the spot, b) comment and suggest improvements and delay the decision, or c) mark the package as non-sh*t, which will prevent the package from being flagged again for a 3-6 month span.
Thoughts? The only goal here is to make the AUR more usable and not have to wade through old/outdated/less than well built packages.
Sounds like a good idea, yeah. There already is a similar request in our bug tracker [1], even though your proposal goes one step further. Basically, +1 from me :) [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18829