hi, thanks a lot for the answers. idk why i didn't get your email in the digest, so i will it mail like this...
Maybe instead of trying to delete everything which is unmaintained you should start adopting it and then maintaining it?
i was just trying to help cleanup AUR. didn't mean any harm. i wrote some script myself to help me do this. i do pick up packages that look like people use.
David, I believe they meant should orphaned old packages be deleted for not being up to date and not actively maintained, if so see above.
If I am wrong, feel free to correct me Zoorat.
see my answer: https://lists.archlinux.org/hyperkitty/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/...
In general, a lot of people prefer diff in comments (I believe this is discouraged by package maintainers, but I can't fully remember) or emailing a patch. This means that there is no privacy concerns.
sure, i will do this then
As a general note, "glibc" does not need to be specified as a dependency as it is within the "base" package, and thus installed on system, it doesn't hurt to specify it however.
i added that because of namcap.
I only briefly looked through each of the packages, this is in no way an indepth analysis, it already took me a good hour to look though each one above, I suggesting specifying specific ones you want checked indepth instead of the long process of checking each one.
thanks a lot. i will fix up everything as soon as possible.
I will be brutally honest here (please do not take anything I say as a personal insult), although I am a regular user, I will explain how this works (You could also read:
sorry, i wasn't trying to be an asshole who just wants the title to show off. i added those numbers not to flex but to help determine. but as i read my own email now, it's looks stupid. please let me explain for the full context, my first contribution to AUR was a deletion req because the package i was trying to install was broken and thought it would be a good idea to report this to maintainers. googled about it and saw people talking about deletion request. after that i, found some other broken packages and reported them. it was the time of covid, so i had a lot of time on hand, thus i started to seek broken packages. i tested them and commented/mailed them to fix or reported them for deletion. at that time i started to maintain some packages too. i wanted to be a TU because i thought i could help test and validate other people's deletion requests. as my req would take quite a while, i thought i could be useful. nothing else. after reporting 500+ `ros-jade-*` broken packages, @ainola mailed me to thank me for the help. and i asked him about being a TU. he said my account was young at that time and to keep helping them... the last email was just to get know about my state... sorry for my english.
Maintaining a few packages isn't generally enough, have you submitted bugs? have you tried joining the Arch Testing Team and testing packages and submitting issues, or even patches to the packages to fix them?
i have reported bug before in bugzilla and joining the test team sounds fun :)
Your account might not be young, but you have disappeared for a year... you can't just leave for a few years pop back and say "look my account is old now". Every package maintainer put ridiculous amounts of time into their role before they were even considered.
i wasn't active on the mailing list or irc but i was maintaining my packages. i didn't mean to disrespect any maintainer here.
But say you got outstanding activity, do you have the skill? Have you showed the ability to package pragmatically? Most of your packages are very straight forward and easy to follow the guidelines, but this is not always the case.
this is the reason i wasn't very interested in maintaining packages at first... and i don't adopt complex c/c++ based packages for this reason but started to get out of my comfort zone nowadays
Its very childish to say, "hey I maintain a few packages, and my account is older now, can I have a job", something I learnt to ask myself is "Why should I be picked?", and yes when I ask myself that in the context of becoming a package maintainer its "hell no".
i didn't mean to disrespect any maintainer here. i just wanted to help test the deletion requests of other people. nothing else.
In other words, stop trying so hard to become a package maintainer, and focus on actually contributing, the rest comes later.
sure. it's not like i will just stop contributing here because i see myself being a maintainer. i wanna help with the open source project i use, that's why i contribute in AUR.
Anyways, I have wrote a lot, and I have spent way too many hours doing so, but I hope there is at least some usual information here for you :)
i'm really really grateful for your answers. helped me a lot. have a nice day. p.s. english is not my first language. ask me anything if it confuses you. -- yours zoorat, PGP: 00000586360F8791A5492251129802DDA8074345 GITHUB: https://github.com/z00rat