* Amish <ammdispose-arch@yahoo.com> [2014-05-08 20:06:15 +0530]:
On 05/08/2014 07:40 PM, Xyne wrote:
On 2014-05-08 10:50 +0530 Amish wrote:
I added one line in package update Guidelines for Maintainer.
Here is the link: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Maintaining_packag...
Here is the line added:
"After submitting the update, leave a comment on AUR page of the package so users following the package get notified."
Please remove that. Commenting every single update will clutter up the comments page and make it harder to follow discussions.
I am ok with removing it. But I would like if more people give opinion.
Because:
1) Its just a guideline, not every maintainer will follow it.
2) Maintainer can add one more point in guideline: to "delete" his older update comment when new update is uploaded.
3) I think commenting about update will involve more people and bring awareness that the AUR package is active and not orphaned.
Please think over point 2, If maintainer follows guideline and posts update comment, he will also delete older update comment.
If maintainer does not follow guideline, no need to delete anything either!
Both ways, comment system will remain clean.
Regards,
Amish
As both a maintainer and user of quite a few AUR packages: I'll get annoyed and unsubscribe from notifications for all the packages I use which do this, and I'll certainly not do it myself. There *are* already a lot of tools which allow you to opt-in to update notifications, why don't you simply use these? With your guideline change, you're forcing everyone to get update notifications even if they aren't interested. For me, seeing the updates in my AUR helper is more than enough, I don't want an email on every update, but I want mails on comments. Florian -- () ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail www.asciiribbon.org /\ www.the-compiler.org | I love long mails http://email.is-not-s.ms/ Schmidt's Observation: All things being equal, a fat person uses more soap than a thin person.