On 8/19/08, stefan-husmann@t-online.de <stefan-husmann@t-online.de> wrote:
At the time I maintain 108 packages in AUR. Not all of them were written my me, but some of them I made after package requests on archlinux.org. Also I am active in the forums at archlinux.org and archlinux.de.
I haven't checked them yet, I'll do so later. I see a lot of these packages have few votes, I assume you don't plan to move them all to community?
I consider myself still being in a learning phase. Two months or so I was not able to do a proper patching of packages, now I am. So packaging is a hobby to me now.
I only own a i686 computer, have no experience with the x86_64 architecture. Building packages for both arches seems a lot of work to me, especially if you are bound to a remote machine. So as a TU I would have to concentrate a bit more on really important packages. But on the other hand it is hard for me to see orphaned packages lying around, an often I pick them. :)
It is not really a lot of work to build on a remove machine. It only takes little more time compared to building on your local machine. Just take as many packages as you can do, but please try to build them for both architectures at times that there is a build machine available. Are you willing to do so? You said you want to concentrate on really important packages. That brings up the million dollar question: what are really important packages in your eyes?
In the forums i act under my real name, in AUR I have a nick, haawda. I can change that if you mind.
It does not really matter, though it may be convenient if people do not use too many different names ;) Ronald