On 15 August 2010 04:06, Stefan Husmann <stefan-husmann@t-online.de> wrote:
But there nothing is said about contacting the current maintainer of an AUR package. Maybe we should add that.
Sad story. As the years go by, the AUR is largely becoming a platform for competition - which is far from our intentions. The point of an unsupported repository of buildscripts is to allow mass contribution and _eventual_ promotion of useful and/or popular software packages. If I maintain a package in AUR, it is with the hope that it will someday get adopted by a TU/developer so that our users have direct access to a binary. It is for the betterment of each and every one of us. When I was once maintaining wicd, I was happy to get notified that it would be brought to extra. And that's right, you _should_ get notified, _before_ the process. The obvious medium for that is, of course, the AUR comments section. There is no need for a "reply" - as long as the AUR maintainer does not end up contemplating where her package disappeared to. It is then up to the TU/developer what other level of communication she wants to utilise. If there is no such relay of information, it is simply a case of bad manners. TUs should take this as a good reminder that there's no playing holier-than-thou here. And for the rest of us, remember that maintaining packages is not an exclusive business. -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD