From: Drew DeVault via aur-general <aur-general@archlinux.org> Sent: Thu Feb 28 04:25:10 CET 2019 To: Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR) <aur-general@archlinux.org> Cc: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com> Subject: Re: [aur-general] Trusted user application: Drew DeVault
On 2019-02-28 2:22 AM, Levente Polyak via aur-general wrote:
For the AUR I don't keep up with upstream releases, I just wait for someone to mark the package as outdated. For Alpine Linux I use a combination of subscribing to the upstream -announce mailing list and subscribing to GitHub releases as appropriate; would do something similar for Arch Linux community.
Well, to be honest its the maintainers responsibility to keep track of upstream and not outsource out of date flagging to someone else. There is no difference between [community] and AUR for something that is a maintainer responsibility.
I respectfully disagree. The barrier to entry for the AUR is almost nonexistent and there's no expectation of support or quality - from Arch Linux or from the maintainers. I take some degree of personal pride in having nice AUR packages, but I also have a limited amount of time. Of course, I take my responsibility as maintainer much more seriously when working with packages in official repos.
From TU candidates there is very high expectation of support and quality and AUR is the place where they can prove it. If the lack of time is a problem then it will still be a problem after promotion. Saying that you will treat your
maintainer work seriously only after you get promoted doesn't earn you much trust. Yours sincerely G. K.