On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:33:51AM -0400, Kaiting Chen wrote:
I currently maintain thirty packages in the AUR, most of which I do not use but would be unhappy in seeing them orphaned.
Could you please add a link to your AUR packages? :)
I would also like to work on maintain the Arch web presence. I think that a separate login is needed for each part of the site is something that should be fixed.
Single sign-on might be a cool thing but is really hard to implement and maintain properly in practice, especially if there's a large number of independent modules that have to be integrated. Most of the projects I implemented SSO for went back to separate logins after some time, just because it was too much effort to maintain integration for all submodules. I don't say it's impossible but it's a lot of work.
The AUR is also somewhat outdated and I in large part agree with the page here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_2.
Well, the AUR is simple, easy to use and just works. Loui and me are also working on some improvements and fixes right now. Tho I agree that the AUR code base is a bit outdated and some parts should better be rewritten.