On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Bruno Pagani <bruno.pagani@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
Well, the first email states Kyrias did this…
Le 11 août 2015 10:15:42 GMT+02:00, David Phillips <dbphillipsnz@gmail.com> a écrit :
A certain TU went around deleting orphaned stuff… won't name them though ;-)
Don't know what the motivation is behind this particular TU (or any others) prowling around looking for orphans to delete, but there are two key issues, I think: - First, the move to aurweb4 was technically about maintainability and modernization of the AUR. But a big side benefit was the "thinning of the herd" (my words alone) that would take place, in terms of lackluster maintainership. A key TU behind the AUR4 redesign admitted as much in an earlier reply to me, @ 2 months ago. He disapproved of the "thinning of the herd" analogy for some reason, but that was clearly what he meant. There were to many orphans, and to many no-show maintainers. Probably still are. - Second, uploading something to AUR4 then immediately orphaning it is stupid. Why not just hold onto it for a while and look for co-maintainers, or a new maintainer? By orphaning, you just became the "thinned" part of the herd.