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[aur-general] maintaining orphaned packages
by Chess Griffin 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Hi there- I've been using Arch Linux for many years now, and I have done some packaging for other distros. I maintain a few slackbuild scripts for Slackware at Slackbuilds.org, one small package in the Debian tree, and currently maintain two ports in the FreeBSD ports tree. I also contribute documentation patches to FreeBSD. I'm a huge supporter of Arch and have really enjoyed using it all this time, so I thought I'd like to start contributing to its package maintenance. I have an x86_64 machine, so can probably help with packages for both x86_64 and i686. My question is about unsupported packages in AUR. Can I go ahead and adopt some or is there some approval process first? I don't have any specifically in mind at the moment, but from time to time I've come across orphaned packages that I use and thought about adopting them. Ok, 'nuff ramblin' from me. Chess -- Chess Griffin GPG Public Key: 0x0C7558C3 http://www.chessgriffin.com

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[aur-general] Applying to become a TU
by Abhishek Dasgupta 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

Hello, I'm Abhishek Dasgupta, from India and right now, I'm doing a Masters in Science (we'll be choosing our majors in the fifth semester). I've been using computers for a long time, and I know a bit of python, shell scripting and of course C, C++. I think that Arch does not have a significant presence in the scientific community. I wish to make Arch a viable choice for a scientist to use, by maintaining more popular scientific packages in [community], in addition to other packages. I've maintained one or two pages in the Wiki (not much :) ), and these are the packages I've in AUR right now (my username is abhidg in the AUR and the forums): ariadne bbpager blueman btsco ghemical libghemical liboglappth lightspeed num-utils pandoc weather xfce4-time-out-plugin Most of these I use myself, or have packaged because it could be useful to others. My introduction is now over, and I'm looking for someone to sponsor me (if any). If you have any questions, please do ask them. -- Abhishek Dasgupta http://abhidg.mine.nu http://abhidg.wordpress.com

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[aur-general] VOTE: Removal Of xterminus
by Callan Barrett 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

This is the vote for the removal of the Trusted User xterminus due to unexplained inactivity. Discussion period is over and everybody must vote and as per the bylaws this vote requires at least two thirds of us to vote in order to meet quorum. I vote: YES -- Callan 'wizzomafizzo' Barrett

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[aur-general] VOTE: pressh (Ronald van Haren)
by Roman Kyrylych 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

Hi! This message starts a voting period for pressh (Ronald van Haren). His introduction is here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2007-November/006260.html The discussion period was extremly quiet (0 messages!), I encourage you to be more active! (see previous threads for a reason). ;-) Now, let the voting begins! And for the first time in the history - I vote in the starting message (I always forgot before). :-P My vote is, obviously, Yes. You have 1 week to vote. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[aur-general] Functional Test - List rename
by Aaron Griffin 29 Dec '07

29 Dec '07

This is a test of the new list name. If you get this message, please respond, to verify. Thanks, Aaron

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[aur-general] resign as a TU
by Pierre Schmitz 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

Hi all, I have decided to resign from my position as a Trusted User. There are two reasons for this step: * The TU group should be independent. Being a TU and a developer at the same time might be a conflict. (attention: this is only my own opinion) * I don't have the time anymore to follow the aur-ml etc. as I should do. I just have too many unread messages ;-) Greetings and merry Christmas, Pierre -- http://www.archlinux.de

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[aur-general] REMOVAL: xterminus
by Callan Barrett 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

This is an email to propose the removal of the Trusted User xterminus (Charles Mauch), I feel this is required so the group of Trusted Users does not stagnate and he is the perfect candidate for putting the bylaws into effect. xterminus has been gone for what I believe is months without any sort of notification, he has not maintained any of his packages nor has he participated in any of the votes. This will begin the 3 day discussion period as written in the bylaws. I'll start: as much as don't like to do this to someone I knew as well as xterminus the fact is he has disappeared off the face of the earth, nobody knows where he's gone, nobody knows if he'll be back. He does not respond to email and he hasn't done anything as a TU in months, nobody has seen him on irc and his website seems to have long expired. I think his removal is the best thing to do. I know xterminus maintained a *lot* of packages in community, most of them being CPAN modules which, according to xterminus, had a whole set of special scripts he used to maintain them. I don't think it's a good idea to put them into unsupported and that they should be deleted from community altogether, any other packages he maintained that are left over should be taken on by whatever TU can handle them and then anything left should be put into unsupported. I'd like to hear anyone else's opinion on this. -- Callan 'wizzomafizzo' Barrett

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[aur-general] Enforcing TU Bylaws
by Callan Barrett 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

After seeing Roman's post in the pressh TU vote I think we need to start enforcing the bylaws based on inactivity now it has become a problem, last thread we only *just* got half of the TUs to vote in it. I have no problem with pressh becoming a TU anyway as I don't believe someone should miss out because of lazy TUs or TUs marked active who are actually inactive. To combat this I think we should put into effect the "Quorum" section of the bylaws or at least some form of it to keep the votes up properly. I've looked at the last three votes we had, the following people have not voted for a long time (I don't even know who two are?) and should really be put up for removal if they have no explanation of their absence: xterminus vegai dejari encelo I don't like to remove TUs but I believe this is required for us to keep any order and keep from a snowball effect of just gathering more and more TUs over time. If these people do not respond I think it's best we start the removal procedure on all of them (provided people start *VOTING*) at some point we can work out. I also need to mention, aside from these 4 people I think there are about a third of the TUs who MUST vote in the currently running thread (unless of course you already have) or else they'll also have to be added to that list. -- Callan 'wizzomafizzo' Barrett

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[aur-general] smf, sergej read this!
by Callan Barrett 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

sergej, will you please hurry up and adopt this package (smf) because I don't want it. It was taken out of community because it was ILLEGAL to package it without explicit permission from the author, which I'm assuming you never obtained. If you did receive permission from the author I want you to put it back into community with that license change in mind, if you didn't receive permission I still want you to adopt it and keep it in unsupported and please keep in mind how important licenses are for packages. -- Callan 'wizzomafizzo' Barrett

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[aur-general] Safe Flags In The AUR?
by Callan Barrett 18 Dec '07

18 Dec '07

Can we get an update on that patch? When does it actually get applied to the actual, real, running AUR? I think it's been *months* now and nothing has happened even when a patch was given in the same post as the proposal and the person proposing it _was the same person maintaining the AUR now._ Can we please finally get this applied, the sooner safe flags are dead and buried the better. -- Callan 'wizzomafizzo' Barrett

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