On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 09:17:23AM +0100, Peter Lewis wrote:
Hi Jonathan,
Thanks for your interest. I don't personally think it's a problem that you don't currently have a sponsor, since I think people should be able to solicit to the list if they would like to apply, rather than being required to ask people off-list. Obviously the discussion period and voting can't happen until a sponsor indicates though.
How long have you been maintaining your AUR packages for? While you've been using Arch for a while, I wonder whether it would be good for you to have a few more AUR packages before becoming a TU. Others may think differently though. Either way, it's good to have you involved.
Agreed. I don't think a small number of packages are a no-go right away. However, it's hard for us to judge your skills if you never sent any mail to the mailing lists, maintain no more than five packages and don't have a sponsor who might promote you... Looking at what we have, I have a few suggestions, also: * Do not use "$startdir". * Always try to quote "$srcdir" and "$pkgdir". They might potentially contain spaces. * Do not use "|| return 1" anymore (except for a few corner cases). * Try to split build() into separate build() and package() functions where appropriate. * Use install(1) instead of mkdir(1) and cp(1). * Strip unused variables, such as "groups=()", "provides=()", etc.