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[aur-general] Delete Git tree for new package with broken state
by lambdadroid 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

Hi, I've been trying to upload packages from archlinux-me176c [1] to the AUR. My scripts create a subtree split of one package, then do quite a bit of other magic and upload it to the AUR. I've been having a few problems with "linux-me176c" because I used to have large patch files in the repository (> 250 KiB). So I modified the scripts to cut off the history after I switched to fetching from a Git repository instead. This works fine, but while testing I seem to have uploaded a broken subtree or some temporary commit, so the new generated subtrees no longer match what is uploaded on the AUR - making it impossible for me to update the package (without force-push). Deleting the package on the AUR was accepted automatically because of: Deletion of a fresh package requested by its current maintainer. but I should have read on the wiki first that this does not delete the Git tree. :) Is there any chance to remove the Git repository of this new package, or should I somehow try to recover that broken state? Thanks, lambdadroid [1]: https://github.com/me176c-dev/archlinux-me176c

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[aur-general] feedback for new package
by Martin Wilson 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

I've put together a package for upload to the AUR, but since it's my first, I would like to know if there are any problems with it: https://github.com/martin3141/tarquin_arch cheers, Martin

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[aur-general] Spam account
by Florian Dejonckheere 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

Hi The account anke99 [1] is leaving some spam comments on various packages [2]. Kind regards Florian [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/anke99 [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/anke99/comments -- *Florian Dejonckheere* Full-stack Software Developer at Open Webslides <https://openwebslides.github.io/> Email: florian(a)dejonckhee.re Web: https://florian.dejonckhee.re Dev: https://www.github.com/floriandejonckheere <https://www.github.com/floriandejonckheere>

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[aur-general] Is a deleted aur comment retrievable ?
by Lone_Wolf 20 Mar '19

20 Mar '19

Hi, I just made a mistake and deleted the pinned comment for my mesa-git package, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mesa-git . I don't have it stored elsewhere, is it possible to restore that comment ? Lone_Wolf

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[aur-general] Spam comments on makemkv
by Cedric Girard 20 Mar '19

20 Mar '19

Hi, The user Frittata [1] is spamming the makemkv page [2] with advertising for another software. Could someone delete this user and comments? [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Frittata/comments [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/makemkv/ Regards, -- Cedric Girard

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[aur-general] New build server for TUs and devs
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 20 Mar '19

20 Mar '19

Hi all, Thanks to Hetzner sponsoring our new server [0] we now have a new box with 48 threads, 128 GiB RAM, and 2 NVMes in RAID0 with a total of 1.75 TiB of storage. Should be plenty fast for the time being. The new server is now available at dragon.archlinux.org for all of your package building pleasures. All TUs and devs have had all of their keys added. pkgbuild.com will soon be pointed to this new server so keep that in mind in case your SSH tells you the hostname changed. IMPORTANT: No data has been migrated from soyuz. It is your responsibility to transfer any data you might want on dragon. soyuz will stay available for at least a month from now (probably more, don't worry, there will be another mail for its termination), so you have plenty of time to migrate any data. dragon will not host public_html in your home dirs. That will move somewhere else. dragon is very strictly a build box and no other services should run on there. soyuz hasn't been changed in any way and if you really want to keep using that, you can do so until it gets terminated. [0] https://twitter.com/svenstaro/status/1107938411254431744

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[aur-general] rfc: pkgbuild for prospect releng-tool
by James Knight 07 Mar '19

07 Mar '19

Hello -- new user to AUR and hoping if anyone is willing to review a PKGBUILD [1] definition for me. I have been reading PKGBUILD [2] and "AUR - Submitting packages" [3] documents, which the latter document suggests to "... submit the PKGBUILD to the AUR mailing list ... for public review before adding it to the AUR". The following is my prospect PKGBUILD definition if anyone has time to make comments/suggestions: --- # Maintainer: James Knight <james.d.knight(a)live.com> pkgname=releng-tool pkgver=0.1 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc='tool to assist in the release engineering of a project' url='https://releng.io/' arch=('any') license=('BSD') makedepends=( 'python' ) source=("$pkgname-$pkgver::git+https://github.com/releng-tool/releng-tool.git#tag=v$pkgver") sha512sums=('SKIP') build() { cd "$pkgname-$pkgver" python setup.py build } check() { cd "$pkgname-$pkgver" python setup.py test } package() { depends=('python') cd "$pkgname-$pkgver" python setup.py install --root="$pkgdir" --optimize=1 install -Dm644 LICENSE "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE" install -dm 755 "$pkgdir/usr/share/bash-completion/completions" install -m644 scripts/releng-tool-completion "$pkgdir/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/releng-tool" } --- Please be merciless. [1]: https://github.com/releng-tool/releng-tool-pkgbuild/blob/master/PKGBUILD [2]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD [3]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Submitting_packag…

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[aur-general] Trusted user application: Drew DeVault
by Drew DeVault 06 Mar '19

06 Mar '19

Hiya! Jerome convinced me to finally apply for TU, and Sven-Hendrik agreed to co-sponsor my application (both Cc'd). I'm a generalist that works on free software full time. I maintain the following AUR packages: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=sircmpwn I also maintain a third-party Arch repo and oversee some automation for helping to build and publish new packages: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-pkgbuilds I'm also the upstream maintainer for several packages in community, including wlroots, sway, and scdoc; and I maintain numerous packages for Alpine Linux as well. I maintain many other free software projects, most notably sourcehut, and I also contribute to many projects maintained by others as well. I think Jerome has been hoping for some relief from the packages I maintain the upstream for, so I may start by relieving that burden. I'd also like to move the samuari package into community, and likely some of the Python packages from my third-party repository as well. Outside of packaging, I have also been doing some exploratory work that I hope will lead to finally moving Arch Linux from SVN to git. As a long time fan and user of Arch Linux, I'm looking forward to the chance to give back to the community. If anyone has any questions, please let me know. -- Drew DeVault

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[aur-general] Withdrawn: Trusted user application: Drew DeVault
by Drew DeVault 04 Mar '19

04 Mar '19

A week of discussion and time to reflect later, and I'd like to withdraw my application for trusted user. I had hesitated to apply to become a TU for some time due to various personal concerns, some of which were reaffirmed during the ensuing discussion, and those which weren't directly reaffirmed continued to grow in my heart anyway. This should not reflect poorly on my sponsors - I did not share all of my concerns with them before applying. Thanks for your time and consideration. -- Drew DeVault

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Re: [aur-general] Trusted user application: Drew DeVault
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

On 25/02/2019 00.23, Drew DeVault wrote: > Hiya! Jerome convinced me to finally apply for TU, and Sven-Hendrik > agreed to co-sponsor my application (both Cc'd). > > I'm a generalist that works on free software full time. I maintain the > following AUR packages: > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=sircmpwn > > I also maintain a third-party Arch repo and oversee some automation for > helping to build and publish new packages: > > https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-pkgbuilds > > I'm also the upstream maintainer for several packages in community, > including wlroots, sway, and scdoc; and I maintain numerous packages for > Alpine Linux as well. I maintain many other free software projects, > most notably sourcehut, and I also contribute to many projects > maintained by others as well. > > I think Jerome has been hoping for some relief from the packages I > maintain the upstream for, so I may start by relieving that burden. I'd > also like to move the samuari package into community, and likely some > of the Python packages from my third-party repository as well. > > Outside of packaging, I have also been doing some exploratory work that > I hope will lead to finally moving Arch Linux from SVN to git. > > As a long time fan and user of Arch Linux, I'm looking forward to the > chance to give back to the community. If anyone has any questions, > please let me know. > > -- > Drew DeVault I confirm my co-sponsorship. Let the discussion period begin!

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Re: [aur-general] Trusted user application: Drew DeVault
by Jerome Leclanche 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 12:23 AM Drew DeVault <sir(a)cmpwn.com> wrote: > > Hiya! Jerome convinced me to finally apply for TU, and Sven-Hendrik > agreed to co-sponsor my application (both Cc'd). > > I'm a generalist that works on free software full time. I maintain the > following AUR packages: > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=sircmpwn > > I also maintain a third-party Arch repo and oversee some automation for > helping to build and publish new packages: > > https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-pkgbuilds > > I'm also the upstream maintainer for several packages in community, > including wlroots, sway, and scdoc; and I maintain numerous packages for > Alpine Linux as well. I maintain many other free software projects, > most notably sourcehut, and I also contribute to many projects > maintained by others as well. > > I think Jerome has been hoping for some relief from the packages I > maintain the upstream for, so I may start by relieving that burden. I'd > also like to move the samuari package into community, and likely some > of the Python packages from my third-party repository as well. > > Outside of packaging, I have also been doing some exploratory work that > I hope will lead to finally moving Arch Linux from SVN to git. > > As a long time fan and user of Arch Linux, I'm looking forward to the > chance to give back to the community. If anyone has any questions, > please let me know. > > -- > Drew DeVault I confirm my sponsorship for this application. o/ I indeed currently maintain sway and one of its dependencies, would be handing that off to Drew as he's better suited to package it. J. Leclanche

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[aur-general] Spam-account
by Georg 18 Feb '19

18 Feb '19

Hi, the account socola88 is spamming around the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/socola88 Georg

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[aur-general] Account Status
by Gonçalo Pereira 14 Feb '19

14 Feb '19

Hello, My account was suspended a few months ago. I would like to continue helping to fix packages even though I haven't been decent in previous incidents. Can I get my account unsuspended? Hope you can understand, Regards, Gonçalo Pereira

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[aur-general] Handling coincidental name collisions
by Xyne 11 Feb '19

11 Feb '19

Hi everyone, This is in regard to this thread on the forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=244051 The packaged contained this project: https://github.com/Aniket-Pradhan/lsd To summarize the thread, an AUR package that had existed for a while was deleted when an unrelated package of the same name was moved to [community]. The reason given was that the AUR package was "not useful enough", either because it only had 2 votes or because the acting TU saw no personal use for it. For trivial packages, it would be good to at least clarify the reason for deletion in a little more detail. There are plenty of AUR packages that persist for years with 0 votes so a maintainer with 2 votes may be understandably confused by the terse statement "not useful enough". A little clarification can easily disperse that confusion and better guide the user through future contributions. However, "trivial" here usually means that someone uploaded a bash script to do something like open arandr and click on it with xdotool to save half a second, or baked some convoluted ls-cat-cat-grep-cat-sed-cat pipe into a 3-line script. The project involved here is not in the same category. It may not be practically "useful" for many users, but it does do something that is not trivial to replicated in a few lines of shell code. It's "usefulness" is subjective. In this case, the TU should have proposed renaming the package, given the maintainer some time to pick a new name and re-upload the package, and then merged the old one. Even a single vote from another user can be encouraging so the merge is worthwhile unless the maintainer states otherwise. Regards, Xyne

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[aur-general] PKGBUILD review request
by Josef Miegl 10 Feb '19

10 Feb '19

I've been trying to improve my AUR packages for the last few days. I'm still a beginner in package maintaining so I would like to have some feedback on some of my PKGBUILDs. I would love to hear everything that is wrong about them. Thanks! # Maintainer: Josef Miegl <josef(a)miegl.cz> pkgname=osmo-bsc-git pkgver=1.4.0.15.g7cfdbe727 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Open Source BSC (GSM Base Station Controller) with A-bis/IP and A/IP interface" url="https://osmocom.org/projects/osmobsc" arch=('i686' 'x86_64' 'aarch64' 'armv7h') license=(GPL) depends=('libosmocore' 'libosmo-abis' 'libosmo-sccp' 'osmo-mgw') makedepends=('git' 'talloc') provides=("${pkgname%-git}") conflicts=("${pkgname%-git}") backup=('etc/osmocom/osmo-bsc.cfg') source=("git+https://git.osmocom.org/${pkgname%-git}") sha256sums=('SKIP') pkgver() { cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname%-git}" echo $(git describe --always | sed 's/-/./g') } build() { cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname%-git}" autoreconf -i ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc make } package() { cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname%-git}" make DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install } # vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et: # Maintainer: Josef Miegl <josef(a)miegl.cz> # Contributor: goll <adrian.goll+aur[at]gmail> # Contributor: Kosava <kosava(a)gmail.com> pkgname=butt pkgver=0.1.17 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Easy to use, multi OS streaming tool" arch=('i686' 'x86_64' 'aarch64' 'armv7h') license=('GPL2') url="http://butt.sourceforge.net/" depends=('fltk' 'libpng12' 'portaudio' 'libfdk-aac' 'libvorbis' 'libogg' 'lame' 'flac' 'opus' 'libsamplerate') source=(${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz::"http://sourceforge.net/projects/${pkgname}/files/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${pk…") sha256sums=('afe9596b1d9ef38d2fde1f3255e5a3a12b206c73c8e6601e37cccb07e67ae33d') build() { cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}" ./configure --prefix=/usr make } package() { cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}" make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install # Desktop file install -Dm644 "usr/share/applications/${pkgname}.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${pkgname}.desktop" # Icons for size in 16 22 24 32 48 64 96 128 256 512; do format="${size}x${size}" install -Dm644 "icons/icon_${format}.png" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${format}/apps/${pkgname}.png" done install -Dm644 "icons/icon_scalable.svg" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/${pkgname}.svg" # Documentation for doc in AUTHORS ChangeLog KNOWN_BUGS NEWS README THANKS; do install -Dm644 "${doc}" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}/${doc}" done # Pixmaps for file in usr/share/pixmaps/"${pkgname}"*; do filename=`basename "${file}"` install -Dm644 "${file}" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pixmaps/${filename}" done } # vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:

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[aur-general] Handling coincidental name collisions.
by Aniket Pradhan 10 Feb '19

10 Feb '19

Hello Everyone! I am Aniket Pradhan, username: major, who wrote "lsd" and initiated the discussion. I would like to thank everyone for their input on this matter. I agree with the others, that this IS a silly little script. I wrote it when I was learning shell programming. I published it to the AUR because it was going to be my first package here, and I wanted to keep it simple. The reason I started the discussion was that I was not given enough time to decide whether to delete the package or to rename it (or if it was my decision or some other TUs). The reason also stated "not useful enough" which was very ambiguous to me. But, I guess that is resolved now since "There is no such procedure to follow when deleting packages", quoted from Eli. I never wanted this to become such big an issue. I just wanted to discuss on the ethicality of the deletion. To be honest, I never wanted to contest for that name "lsd", because I know that my script is very "trivial". I would like to thank everyone, again, for participating in this discussion and giving your feedback. <3. (Thank you, Alad for reminding me to add an epilepsy warning). -- Thanks Regards Aniket Pradhan Byld | Cyborg Member ECE Undergrad | IIIT Delhi http://home.iiitd.edu.in/~aniket17133/ P.S. I am new to the mailman, and I am not sure if I am creating a new topic or replying to the existing one. Please excuse me for that. > Occasionally I zen out to asciiquarium Thanks for the recommendation, Brett. :P Thank You Xyne, for starting out this thread. You too Trilby (if you are around here) :)

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[aur-general] SPAM delivered from Thanos1234 account in AUR
by Daniel Mirkin 09 Feb '19

09 Feb '19

To Trust Users: Today I've received SPAM, delivered from Thanos1234 account, in the comments area of my USBPICPROG package in AUR. I saw that SPAM comments was delivered to at least three other AUR pages from the same Thanos1234 account; see https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Thanos1234/comments Could you inform to Thanos1234 that his behavior is unacceptable? And if he/she continues to send SPAM, could you block Thanos1234 account, to avoid disturbing comments on AUR pages? Your efforts will be appreciated. Best regards, *Daniel Mirkindanielmirkin(a)gmail.com <danielmirkin(a)gmail.com>*

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[aur-general] Launch script: distinguish Java version
by Simon Legner 31 Jan '19

31 Jan '19

Hi, is there a canonical way to distinguish the active Java version in the launch script of a Java application? (a) I could do a switch on the `archlinux-java get` output. However, this strategy might fail for unconsidered JVMs from AUR. (b) I could parse the `java -version` output. However, the output is somewhat complex to parse and its syntax differs between Java versions and implementations. (c) Some packages rely on aur/archlinux-java-run. The Arch Linux Wiki page does not mention any strategy or preferred way. [0] Rationale: jd-gui needs additional JVM arguments to make it run on Java ⩾9. [1] Thanks, simon04 [0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Java_package_guidelines [1] https://github.com/java-decompiler/jd-gui/issues/187#issuecomment-408341767

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[aur-general] Away until January 31st
by Jerome Leclanche 30 Jan '19

30 Jan '19

Hey folks, I'm on a pretty awful laptop + internet right now and unable to attend to TU duties until end of the month. I'll note that I'm unable to even load https://aur.archlinux.org -- it seems to hang at the TLSv1.3 handshake on my 4G (tethered or not). This has been the case since forever but it's now an issue. I initially thought it was just down. Then thought it was on my side but the rest of the archlinux domains work fine. Any idea what could cause this? J. Leclanche

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[aur-general] spam comment in AUR package camotics
by Paul Hentschel 28 Jan '19

28 Jan '19

A spam comment was posted at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/camotics/ by this new user https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Addu12 Paul

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[aur-general] I want to update gtkhtml4 in AUR
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 28 Jan '19

28 Jan '19

Hello, Can someone please have a look on what happens on server side? I want to update gtkhtml4 in AUR adding a long proposed (in the comments) patch. This fails with fatal: unable to access 'https://aur.archlinux.org/gtkhtml4.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403 I maybe do not see the obvious, but I can update my other packages without problems, but not thi one, which I newly adopted. Best Regards Stefan

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[aur-general] Purge of packages orphaned, out-of-date, and last updated before 2017
by Daniel M. Capella 27 Jan '19

27 Jan '19

Based on the loosely defined "cleanup criteria"[], we're overdue for a little purge. The candidates can be found here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&SeB=nd&K=&outdated=on&SB=l&SO=a&PP=… https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=250&SeB=nd&outdated=on&SB=l&SO=a&PP=2… Please run `aurphan -a` to see if you have any orphaned AUR packages installed, and do everyone a favor by adopting them. If there are no objections, it will be done this weekend. A reply will be sent for record-keeping with the list of packages prior to deletion. []: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:AUR_Cleanup_Day#Possible… -- Best, polyzen

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[aur-general] [tu-bylaws] [PATCH] add README describing how to update the bylaws
by Eli Schwartz 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz(a)archlinux.org> --- This is not an amendment to the bylaws themselves, and as such does not require any sort of vote. But I think this is rather useful to have, as there is currently not a case of perfect clarity for the administrivium involved in processing updates. As development of the bylaws happens on this list, I'm sending it in here. Hope this change makes sense to all. README.md | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..262a22c --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# AUR Trusted User Bylaws + +This document describes the bylaws which govern the Arch Linux Trusted Users. + +Instructions for updating: + +- follow the procedure outlined in the bylaws for proposing an update +- if accepted, push to master branch of this repository and tag the commit + "proposal-$num" to correspond with the vote ID at + https://aur.archlinux.org/tu/ +- ask one of the aurweb maintainers to run `make` and deploy the resulting + `*.html` to `${aurweb_root}/web/html/trusted-user/` -- 2.20.1

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[aur-general] What happened to wine-gaming-nine?
by Alex Smith 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

I am curious as to what happened to the AUR package named "wine-gaming- nine". Did the account behind it get banned? Or was it simply deleted because it was out of date.

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[aur-general] [PATCH][tu-bylaws]: raise threshold of sponsors to two
by Santiago Torres 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

The current threshold of applicants has raised some concerns with the TU community regarding the quality of the applications submitted. In order to improve this, increase the threshold of TU sponsors with the following goals: - Have two TUs review the applicants PKBUILDs - Have two TUs actually decide to support this canididate --- tu-bylaws.txt | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/tu-bylaws.txt b/tu-bylaws.txt index d32e06c..e958393 100644 --- a/tu-bylaws.txt +++ b/tu-bylaws.txt @@ -100,11 +100,13 @@ Addition of a TU The addition of a TU may occur at any time. -In order to become a TU, one must first find a sponsoring TU, -and arrange privately with them to announce their candidacy on the -https://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/aur-general[aur-general] mailing -list. Following the announcement, standard voting procedure commences with a -discussion period of 14 days, a quorum of 66%, and a voting period of 7 days. +In order to become a TU, one must first find two sponsoring TUs following the +guidelines outlined below, and arrange privately with them to announce their +candidacy on the +https://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/aur-general[aur-general] +mailing list. Following the announcement, standard voting procedure commences +with a discussion period of 14 days, a quorum of 66%, and a voting period of 7 +days. ---- SVP( addition_of_TU, 14, 0.66, 7 ); @@ -113,6 +115,7 @@ SVP( addition_of_TU, 14, 0.66, 7 ); If a candidate is rejected by SVP, they may not reapply to become a Trusted User for a period of three months. + Removal of a TU --------------- -- 2.20.1

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