On 9 August 2012 08:56, Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh@lutzhaase.com> wrote:
Can you provide some links to your upstream contributions (patches, pull requests, bug reports)?
By "help with any queries or issues" I mean looking for help getting it running on Arch to help create a working PKGBUILD, not contributing to the projects as such; just using Web/forums/lists/bugs/IRC/email usually in that order. With forums/lists/bugs I may just monitor rather than participate unless necessary. Here's a few recent examples: abe had an issue which I found a fix for from an existing bug report: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1463202&group_id=70141&atid=526743 I was in contact with openclonk on IRC where I relayed on the package comments that 5.3 should fix the current issues (when released) and that the hg version works (which I also maintain): https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44976 I used to maintain amazonmp3 and was in contact with upstream about issues via email.
you should have excellent response times in case you become TU.
I believe my response times are good. "Excellent" is attainable.
I noticed you still have || return 1s in there. You should delete those as this is now default behaviour. ... You also haven't even cleaned up some packages you adopted and it some it still has the old guy as the maintainer. ... You should definitely spend some time on your packages there and at least build/upload them once with your data as opposed to just clicking "adopt".
Yes, there are packages I have not edited if they work. I will fix these today and any future ones I adopt right away. Thank you for pointing that out.
do you know how to write a PKGBUILD from scratch?
Yes I am very capable of doing this [1]. I have thoroughly read the PKGBULD man page and wiki entry and also about creating packages and standards. I do have one question, and that is the use of curly brackets. I find people recommending and not recommending their use but nothing official stated. I am aware of their purpose so is it down to personal preference?
If you clean your packages following my above suggestions, I might sponsor you.
-- Sven-Hendrik
Thank you. jsteel [1] Example of a PKGBUILD I created from scratch: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=53718