2010/11/17 Kaiting Chen <kaitocracy@gmail.com>:
How can we make the AUR even better? I'll start:
1. Integrated distributed version control system
+1 but I think distributed is not necessary at all, but keeping the revisions of a PKGBUILD or the rest of the files will be nice.
2. User provided binaries (if case anyone wants to volunteer) (this should probably be carefully controlled)
-1 ... if anyone wants to volunteer, they can apply to be a TU.
3. Time-adjusted 'relevance' measure (votes are useful but suck at the same time; nobody cares if a packages was upvoted 9000+ times a million years ago, especially if it's already been obsoleted by something else)
0 No comments, maybe we should do one better statistic, number of downloads per day or something like.
4. An official client
-1 No, but if point 1 is accomplished you will do your own client for handle it :)
5. LDAP support because LDAP makes everything so much better
0 LDAP support just for AUR? I thought in LDAP to manage all our systems (forums, bbs, wiki, dev/tu backends) -but this requires soo manpower-, so I'd like to implement this, but not just for AUR .. and it will be good if these ideas goes to AUR2, because having LDAP + a VCS system will make a little bit painful the migration process, from the actual aur to the new aur. -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Developer / Trusted User Linux Counter: #359909 http://www.angvp.com