Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:36:17 +0300 From: Ionu? B?ru <ibiru@archlinux.org> Subject: Re: [aur-general] TUs adopting packages from the AUR To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)" <aur-general@archlinux.org> Message-ID: <4C66D411.7010405@archlinux.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
On 08/14/2010 08:22 PM, Xyne wrote:
On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:43:37 +0300 Ionu? B?ru wrote:
On 08/14/2010 02:38 PM, Stijn Segers wrote:
Guys,
When I saw this discussion about sage-mathematics I was just wondering what is customary when a TU wants to adopt packages that are not his and are maintained by someone in the AUR.
I had a couple of those (remmina-plugins and freerdp) and from one day to another my packages were 'gone' from AUR. Only after that some TU sent me a message that he had taken my packages. There was nothing in the AUR ML about moving it.
Is this how this is usually done? I know developers aren't great communicators, but it sure struck me as impolite, rude even.
Thanks
yes. this is how we handle it. eventually we have to do that since you or any other contributors can't commit to community and we want all our users to easy access their favorite applications.
Is that really how we're supposed to handle it?
In my opinion, a TU should contact the current maintainer in advance to discuss moving a package to [community]. Simply taking the package is indeed impolite, regardless of the number of votes.
if you read his email, you'll see that an email was sent.
if the current maintainer doesn't want to be moved, you think that is a democracy? :D
is not
I don't mind seeing packages moved into [community], much to the contrary. But as Xyne said, communication would be nice. If some TU were to ask me 'can I adopt this package and put it in [community]', why would I say no? Why would anyone, for that matter? :-) I'd just like to be noticed before, and not after. Of course it's not a democracy, but communication isn't a synonym of democracy ;-).