Am 02.01.2011 18:23, schrieb Stefan Husmann:
Am 01.01.2011 21:15, schrieb Xyne:
Florian Pritz wrote:
I noticed tenshi [1] hasn't been updated for quite a while and I'd like to maintain it (and perl-io-bufferedselect which is a dependency in newer versions and not yet in AUR/repos) in community if 1) the current maintainer is okay with that and 2) three TUs agree because it sadly doesn't satisfy the 10 votes or 1% usage rule.
I've got a working PKGBUILD for 0.12 and I'm already using it on my systems. In case I can't move it to community I'll publish that later.
CC'ing the current maintainer (Ryan).
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14088
-- Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}@server-speed.net
There are two unrelated issues here. The first is that you want to actively maintain a package that you use and which appears to be neglected by its current maintainer. If the maintainer does not update the package in response to your email or says that you can take it, then it's obviously fine for you to take it. The maintainer may respond by updating it though, as he's been active as recently as October.
The second issue is one of moving this to [community]. The package has been in the AUR for 3 years yet only has 6 votes. I doubt that it takes long to compile either, so why do you want to move it to [community]? I see no benefit in doing, and it will only complicate maintenance for you. I think you should just maintain it in the AUR, at least until it reaches the vote threshold.
Regards, Xyne
My 2 cents:
- The maintainer has 8 packages, 3 of which are flagged out of date. - The tenshi PKGBUILD is in very bad shape (arch is wrong, many startdirs and "|| return 1"'s).
So IMHO you should not wait till the author responded, but adopt the PKGBUILD and maintain it in AUR. If it is still just a perl script as it was in 2007, then, as Xyne already said, it won't take long to "build", and so there is another point against its move to [community].
BTW, it now has 9 votes. Seems we have some audition here. :)
Regards Stefan
BTW, somewhere on the homepage of tenshi I found that it has a predecessor named "oak". Since this was not in AUR yet, i made a PKGBUILD for it. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45011 Regards Stefan