On 6/22/21 3:16 AM, alad via aur-general wrote:
There's 59 TUs looking after 70676 packages and moderating 85141 users. To make that manageable, you need some a strict set of rules. One of them is not submitting "-latest" packages that are already in the repos.
But the implementation is not uniform, and non-TUs must heed implementation as well. Both of these things are obvious, I suspect. Not creating a thousand AUR packages when a maintainer is twenty minutes late incrementing gnome-pizza-maker is an unqualified good, but not having a community bandage when work on a maintained package is stalled but not abandoned for over a year seems less good. If the people behind AUR say that this is a situation where community tools are off limits, that's a notable surprise to me and I'll submit my mild objection. -Sam