On 11/05/2016 04:55 AM, Lukas Fleischer wrote:

I actually wanted to implement this a while ago but deferred it because I had problems finding a good UI. The two straightforward options are:

1. Adjust the maintainer filter such that it also looks for co-maintainers... Which would essentially result in packages you co-maintain being listed under "My Packages".

2. Add a new co-maintainer filter. Then, in addition to "My Packages", add a "Packages I Co-Maintain" link.

I do not like the first option because packages you co-maintain differ from "your" packages. Co-maintainers do not have the same privileges as maintainers.

I also do not really like the second option. Adding more and more options and links clutters the UI and makes things inconvenient. For example, we added a filter for exact package name searches in commit 1c55e6b (Add option to search for exact name matches only (fixes FS#23556)., 2011-04-06). I wish we had implemented it the way archweb does it [1] back then. It is much more intuitive and clear.

Transferring this idea to co-maintainer search, maybe the "My Packages" page should have two sections: A list with packages one maintains, followed by a second table of packages one co-maintains. It is not entirely clear how to implement this as part of the package search, especially when it comes to pagination. So, many topics to discuss before coming up with a patch...

[1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=linux

That (split results view) sounds like a good way of doing it. A search for maintainers could return co-maintainers as well, but separated. As for pagination, just return co-maintainers at the end (the last page)... I assume since co-maintained packages are "lesser", people will be less interested in them. There is no need to restrict the co-maintainers search to your own packages only, so it has nothing to do with "My Packages" as opposed to the maintainer search it is a shortcut for. ... Methinks now is a good time to move the discussion to [aur-dev]... -- Eli Schwartz