On 6 February 2011 03:35, Ionuț Bîru <ibiru@archlinux.org> wrote:
I moved a lot of packages from AUR in community/extra and every time i did sent a "thank you" note. From that amount of messages i sent, only once i got a reply. ONCE.
Should i be dissapointed? I guess yes. I am? No.
No need. The first comment from you about moving already counts as closure. What I do is allow for a grace period before (1) uploading the package to repo and (2) deleting the package from AUR. I notify (via comments) at least a day before uploading, and delete the package a day after uploading. So that's a three-day process. Now, I just remembered a good example where we appear to have not bothered with adopting a package into the repositories: q7z [1] But really, the AUR maintainer can keep working on the PKGBUILD even if someone brings it in. The difference is you don't submit the PKGBUILD - you send an e-mail with it attached. And while we like to joke about making Arch greater and/or kicking butts, there isn't really anything of that sort. We just help each other out to fulfill our needs, and the distribution grows along with us. Humbly. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12822