On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:51:19 +0100 JJDaNiMoTh <jjdanimoth@gmail.com> wrote: Long long quote here:
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:58:15 -0700 Tobias Kieslich <tobias@justdreams.de> wrote:
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Shaika-Dzari wrote:
Le 19 mars 2008, Allan McRae a écrit :
BaSh wrote:
Hi ML, there are many orphans packages into community repository and I think who xfce-svn would have to be moved to unsupported. [cut] Weren't we trying to convince someone to join as a TU to maintain the xfce4-svn packages? Does anybody know if there was a response about that?
I don't know if this is a good ideas but maybe someone could make a post on the forum. There a lot of xfce users and someone may be interrested to adopt and support it.
I'm the xfce4 extra maintainer and from my experience the xfce4 stuff goes in waves. Whe the development at upstream gets upt o speed again for 4.6 ther will be people that who want the 4.6 svn packages until there are beta tarballs available. I know have them lingering around is an annoyance but believe me, someone will come along and pick them up. It is okay to mve it to unsupported for the moment but please don't get rid of them as it will be way much work for whoever to recreate them.
Thanks, -T
My two cents? -svn, -git or -cvs packages are allowed to stay in community _only_ if it is the main way to get them ( like fusion-icon ). And the best thing to do is download the snapshot, targz it and upload on some private space, and use it for source ( like thing I do with xgl ), not to use directly svn or git or cvs in the build function.
Fortunately, we're not forced to follow users; it is suggested, right, but users have a quick way to get xfce-svn: using makepkg themselves! And users could set-up their personal repo, to share the packages, like ( fortunately they do ) repo with kdemod, kde4, ... , compiz-git, ..., kde-svn and many others.
Finally, instead of following users in the fog of -svn packages, we MUST focus our forces to keep in sync community-64.
Anyway, thanks to wizzo which has maintained it very well; if anyone want take all xfce-svn packages, they will go in unsupported.
Any reply, so I'm proud ( really ) to move these svn things to unsupported. If you wish maintain them in community, let send me an email IMMEDIATELY. Thanks. -- JJDaNiMoTh - ArchLinux Trusted User