On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 23:22:55 -0500, Mark Weiman wrote:
I don't see anything wrong with maintaining several hundred packages. If someone is willing to and has the time to do it, I say they should be able to without moderation.
Essentially this is my opinion too. Anyway, since this thread came into being by a thread I started and it came out that at least one maintainer seems to suffer from something like a collecting mania and/or control mania and at least two other maintainers felt harassed by this maintainer, there maybe is the need to take a look at maintainers of very much PKGBUILDS. Again, not to ensure that the PKGBUILDS are secure, I hoped that I have already explained good enough that this isn't what I'm thinking of. It might be helpful for the sense of well-being of other maintainers, to at least ensure that there is no suspect organisation acting. I'm not a package maintainer, so "AUR packages are user produced content. Any use of the provided files is at your own risk." is addressed to me and other users and doesn't include the the sense of well-being of maintainers, who feel pressure by other, misbehaving maintainers. As a user I don't know if this is really an issue, or even true.