I am able to update many packages in one minute too. I just do my changes in all XX packages and simply select all repositories I want to push with one click (I am using a simple GUI tool for git operations like that). So am I a bot too?! On the other hand I do not get why all are against automation.. claiming its evil and that's it. it is clear that it makes no sense to just automate and think everything will go right though! automation can help in making reliable software though and to be honest software developers can't live without CI/CD and for sure not without automation tests these days. Modern development requires to pass tests for shell scripts, python code etc before it will be published. The mentioned post from the previous discussion is referring to something where the package might build but does not have any content or is unusable for any reason. nothing(!) prevents that this happens other then by manual testing Regardless if it was pushed automatically or manually you can't be safe the committer has tested it correctly before. I don't think that automation is a no go for the AUR but we would need guidelines for automation and ideally for tests / checks instead. I personally would go even further and would require that before you can upload something to the AUR that you need to pass syntax checks for code and general requirements for the package itself. Just my 5ct Thomas