-----Original Message----- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:03:12 +0200 Subject: Re: [aur-general] Applying for TU-ship From: "Ronald van Haren" <pressh@gmail.com style="margin:0px;"> To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)" <aur-general@archlinux.org>
On 8/19/08, stefan-husmann@t-online.de <stefan-husmann@t-online.de> wrote:
At the time I maintain 108 packages in AUR. Not all of them were written my me, but some of them I made after package requests on archlinux.org. Also I am active in the forums at archlinux.org and archlinux.de.
I haven't checked them yet, I'll do so later. I see a lot of these packages have few votes, I assume you don't plan to move them all to community?
No, surely not. There are some -git, -cvs, -svn packages among them. Some packages do not need compilation, so users won't benefit too much from having it in a repo.
It is not really a lot of work to build on a remove machine. It only takes little more time compared to building on your local machine. Just take as many packages as you can do, but please try to build them for both architectures at times that there is a build machine available. Are you willing to do so?
I am willing to do so. Maybe I will need some help at the beginning.
You said you want to concentrate on really important packages. That brings up the million dollar question: what are really important packages in your eyes?
You really want to give me a million dollar if I answer that question? :) Just kidding. The votes are a good hint. But sometimes a package gets few votes because it fullfils a special task or addresses a small audiance. I do not have a list of packages yet I want to put in community. But fotoxx or xaralx could be a candidate.
Ronald
Thank you for your reply. Stefan