On Jan 16, 2008 7:56 PM, Alessio Bolognino <themolok.ml@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed 2008-01-16 17:45 , Callan Barrett wrote:
sergej, this officially marks the discussion period for your removal as a Trusted User. [...]
I'm not TU anymore, but IIRC discussion is open to anyone.
Didnt know that, so i might as well jump in too. :)
Sergej is doing a huge work maintaining >600 packages in [community], and honestly I don't know how he can handle them. Sometimes I think he is a bot running on a russian server (the lack of communication in the ml confirms this theory).
From my experience, Sergej is maintaining the packages very well, updates
them regularly when they're out date or someone posts a worthwhile suggestion about them and unlike wizzo said he doesnt just move the PKGBUILD from unsupported but he also changes the build function if he finds that nessecery. I clearly remember that when he grabbed my dwm PKGBUILD to community for example. My only abjection about his packages is that probably some/many are not used that much to be in community. The same thing happened until lately with developers moving thing in extra too. Now they are supposed to ask before moving them. Maybe a similar approach is needed for TU's too?
The main complaints I have with his packages are the lack of the Maintainer tag, really annoying because I have to look in the web interface of the AUR to know who's maintaining a package (or look in CVS logs) and most of them doesn't have a valid license field.
Since he updates his packages regularly, this is bound to change, at least for the active projects. Furthermore now that its noted. Its not a valid reason for me since we are dealing with binary packages. On the other hand, if the voting is mandatory for an active TU Sergej should start voting. Greg