2009/6/25
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:50:34 +0800 Ray Rashif
wrote: I don't really see a point in that much discussion. [community] will vanish from AUR anyway.
1) [unsupported] should keep the comments.
2) The maintainer of a package should be able to delete comments (cleanup possibility).
3) Notification should be enabled by default (or add a switch for the default behaviour).
Regards, Philipp
I agree. Personally, I find filing a bug quite daunting (I know it isn't but I do) and it is easier for me, as the bug reporter, to just shove my problem in the box at the bottom. As the maintainer, as most of the bugs I get reported are simple, and I think that's the case with the vast majority of AUR packages, it is easier to just have a simple interface little comment interface, instead of a massive, full blown bug management system. The maintainer of a package should be able to delete comments as this would make some of the more popular packages' comments easier to clean up. Instead of a trusted user needing to do this, the owner of the package could be allowed to delete any comments older that a week. That's a policy decision, but I hope we will have some way of deleting comments that refer to bugs that have been fixed. Notification should be enabled as default, as I find with some packages people report them out of date if there is any kind of problem with them. This leads to confusion, as to whether the package is actual out of date, or if it is just a problem with the PKGBUILD. Maybe a bug button for people writing comments would be useful, so the comment could trigger an email alert, whereas a normal comment might not. All of this, in my opinion would still be easier than a bug tracker. Thanks, Laurie