On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 08:00:40PM -0500, Aaron Schaefer wrote:
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis <grbzks@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 02:39:38PM -0600, kludge wrote:
if there is no voting on packages in [community], then what mechanism exists for users to suggest/cheer on a package's promotion to [extra]?
-kludge
One users answer:
Maybe the same mechanism that would move packages out of extra to unsupported or community? Its called pkgstats. pacman -S pkgstats and then exec pkgstats as root IIRC.
My whole point in bringing all this up is that it seems like people are treating pkgstats as a panacea, when I don't think it should be the sole basis of all of these recent decisions. I absolutely support the idea of pkgstats, but think that its still in its infancy and should not be so blindly trusted. People have been suggesting arbitrary limits and restrictions based on its numbers, but the numbers themselves could be pretty far off base...and I think that's the bigger problem.
Anyways, this discussion has already been beaten to death. If you're unhappy with the way things are going then find a solution. Personally I prefer votes to pkgstats. If I care enough in their importance I may implement something that improves voting stats, and all that jazz. There's no point in writing novels if it's just fantasy.