On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Alexander Rødseth <rodseth@gmail.com> wrote:
Season's greetings,
After the 13th of December (the 14th of December, then), we (TU's) will move all packages that are still orphans from [community] to unsupported (AUR). Maintaining [community] and unsupported are part of our mission. [10]
Please keep the ibus-related package in community. They are required for i18n support. I won't adopt them as I don't use them but I'll keep an eye on them if they remain orphaned. Ideally, a user who use them should apply to become TU so they can get an actual maintainer. Before removing anything , please make sure that they are not depends or {make,opt}depends of other packages in the repos. Thanks Eric
For maintainers everywhere, giving extra care and attention to packages that are merely flagged is also looked upon with good favor, of course. That also goes for deleting or orphaning AUR packages that hasn't been working for a while (say, for the last 6 months).
I hope you're all with me on this, and that we can stand together, as one, to move all orphans to unsupported and shed some dead weight from AUR.
I'll end this with two perfectly suitable and hand-picked inspirational quotes:
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible." - Arthur C. Clarke
-- Happy Saint Lucy's Day, Alexander Rødseth Arch Linux Trusted User (xyproto on IRC, trontonic on AUR)
References:
Sorry, there are no available English translation for these: [1] http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskorei [2] http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciadagen#Eldre_Luciafeiring
But, these are in English: [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Celestine_V [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_Day_%28Malta%29#13_December_in_Malta [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_XIV_of_Sweden [6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Plot [7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbots_Bromley_Horn_Dance [8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccolo_Fontana_Tartaglia [9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_N%C3%A9ri [10] http://aur.archlinux.org/trusted-user/TUbylaws.html#Mission