On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Nathan O <ndowens.aur@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Nathan O <ndowens.aur@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Heiko Baums <lists@baums-on-web.de>
wrote:
Am Sun, 5 Sep 2010 02:52:55 -0500 schrieb Nathan O <ndowens.aur@gmail.com>:
At this time, I am going through the ophaned packages and updating them to the latest versions and adopting packages(in my opinion this helps AUR out).
And this is why I don't think you should become a TU. Your deletion mania was a bit too big. You asked for package deletion obviously without reading the PKGBUILDs and other files in the packages and without comparing packages enough.
If you send a removal request to the mailing list as a normal user then a TU can first make sure if a package can indeed be removed, but if you were a TU then you could remove those packages by yourself without asking another TU first.
So I don't think you should be a TU until you proof that you learned reading PKGBUILDs and that you deal with packages not owned by yourself trustworthily. I don't see this, yet.
And I don't want my packages be removed from AUR just because you think they can be removed because of a pointless reason. See again your removal request for alevt and alevt-dvb. Packages are not the same just because a part of the package names is identical.
Heiko
I can understand your concern about deletion and I will work on that
area.
Also I already knew that I wasn't ready to apply for a TU posistion yet. I mainly meant by sponsor as more as somebody that I could go to, to see if I did something correct or whatever. So don't concider my question as an application, atleast just yet :)
I have two questions:
1. Is it bad to adopt many packages to update them since they are orphaned(since somebody didn't want the package(s) anymore), if so why?
I don't see anything wrong with that, as long as you commit yourself to maintain them in a timely fashion.
Cheers!
If I see an out-of-date notification, I check and make sure it is out dated and if so, then I update it right then.