Hi On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 8:30 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
at least one maintainer seems to suffer from something like a collecting mania and/or control mania
It's important to note: this is just the opinion of Ralf and Pedro. There is no proof nor a statement (yet) that could even suggest that Det has a collecting mania or something like that. We should keep in mind that until proven guilty, Det is just a very generous maintainer. If he/she has the time to do all of that work for free, we should admire him/her.
and at least two other maintainers felt harassed by this maintainer
Again, it's important to note that these other maintainers gave no proof of harassment yet. We just learnt that Det is Finnish and shared "immature things" on Google+ (as if that could have the slightest weight in an harassment accusation).
there maybe is the need to take a look at maintainers of very much PKGBUILDS. Again, not to ensure that the PKGBUILDS are secure, I hoped that I have already explained good enough that this isn't what I'm thinking of. It might be helpful for the sense of well-being of other maintainers, to at least ensure that there is no suspect organisation acting.
I agree with taking a look at packages (I would add a "Flag as compromised/virus" link, which has a similar effect to "Flag package out-of-date").
I'm not a package maintainer, so "AUR packages are user produced content. Any use of the provided files is at your own risk." is addressed to me and other users and doesn't include the the sense of well-being of maintainers, who feel pressure by other, misbehaving maintainers. As a user I don't know if this is really an issue, or even true.
I believe it would be a good thing to address (with a code of conduct) *the possibility* of having misbehaving maintainers pressuring other maintainers. It's important to note, however, that this "pressuring" hasn't ever happened, until someone proves it happened. -- William