[...] There are some nice PKGBUILDs there but so far the majority of what I have seen has been of poor quality. Most of us (the TUs) probably have at least one or two sub-standard PKGBUILDs lying around waiting to get flagged and updated, but overall there should be consistent quality. You are absolutely right Xyne. I orphaned about 100 packages that I adopted over time but never really used. I should really stick to the important
And if that is the case, fine. But let's again take a look at the example he held up, gitlab. The package was updated two days ago, addressed none of the concerns I and other commenters raised. His response is: "Sorry but I don't have the time now to look at all your changes. I'll do that later." Nothing yet, not to mention that it wouldn't even build at the time he uploaded it because of a bad checksum. I must say that the Gitlab packages is a very difficult one and it's not
On 01-22 21:59, Xyne wrote: packages that I use for myself on daily basis. Actually I'm aware of the basic packaging standards and I never used outdated syntax like return-statements or srcdest variables, but I had a lot of them in broken packages I adopted. On the one side, quality counts but on the other site I'm often frustrated to see that many dysfunctional packages ... On 01-24 21:22, Doug Newgard wrote: that easy to fix certain things because they need a lot of testing. Also friends told me that they invested a lot of time setting it up on Debian or Ubuntu, following the very complex official installation instruction. Earlier versions of Gitlab had a lot of errors and Ruby is not that easy to debug. I managed to ease the installation a lot and also rewrote the installation instructions on the wiki (before that, it was just a copy and paste of the official instruction which didn't really fit to ArchLinux systems). Unfortunately the interest in this package went up over the last days and exactly at this time I'm getting a cold :( I really want to address the concerns as soon I'm back on track ;) On 01-22 23:56, Balló György wrote:
I agree with Xyne. You have to learn some more things and clean up your packages before you are ready. I'll recheck my packages and than you have to decide. I'm still motivated to improve my contributions :)