On 02/12/18 at 05:15pm, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote:
On 02/12/2018 05:04 PM, Brad Fanella via aur-general wrote:
Turns out that since my application, Antonio Rojas has stepped up to the plate and updated MATE to version 1.20.0, so props to him! The whole group is still orphaned though, so I would plan on pushing out future updates when they come. There are no glaring holes in [community] right now, which is fantastic; most of the other orphans are small utilities and libraries with infrequent/discontinued releases, like cd-discid and imlib (version 1).
arojas does quite a lot of updating for orphaned packages like that. :) He was updating Cinnamon as well, until I applied, and he was very straightforward with me about "it would be great if someone who actually uses the packages could maintain it since all I do is bump the pkgver and try to see if it builds".
This is awesome, but we should have no issues with co-maintaining more packages. Other packages mind be busy, on vacation, to update their packages.
Perhaps there are some packages that are becoming a burden on other TUs, or AUR packages that deserve a spot in the official repos. Maybe you have some recommendations?
I thought the idea here was to see what you are interested in, not what I'm interested in. :p
Would be indeed, nice to hear what your background is and what sort of packages you would like to maintain and have experience with :) -- Jelle van der Waa