Temporarily suspend matthewq337 user
Hello, I've seen this user squats many packages dropped which are either dropped to AUR or abandoned, and then adds other people who are actually interested in said packages to co-maintainers. I've had this happen to me with 3 packages, which are also mentioned in examples list below. In the past few months I have seen this user push various nonsense commits to many packages. Some examples are: ruby-rails (and dependencies) where only pkgver was bumped, without testing any build. This resulted in build failures for simple reasons such as missing files: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=ruby-actionview&id=a98abc63... https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-actionview#comment-1019144 pyload-ng, pushing changes without pulling first and other nonsense "updated" commits without testing also visible in git log https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=pyload-ng&id=c91cc2cb90daa4... librewolf-hg, package "fixed" which resulted in pkgbuild being unusable https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/librewolf-hg#comment-981229 python-dukpy, changing license file name from right to wrong which prevented install: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=python-dukpy&id=2ddc02e9fa6... https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=python-dukpy&id=9d7aab02055... python-glfw, bumping pkgver, but this did not actually result in new version being built: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=python-glfw#n13 These examples are not from malice or anything, but from not testing changes and incompetence. "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone", but I think that such over such long period of time (~6 months at least) mistakes in packaging without seemingly any improvement show that matthewq337 doesn't care about state of packages. I am therefore calling for moderator action, to prevent this from happening so that Matthew can reflect. Kind regards, micwoj92
Hi Michał,
mistakes in packaging without seemingly any improvement show that matthewq337 doesn't care about state of packages. I am therefore calling for moderator action, to prevent this from happening so that Matthew can reflect.
No strong opinion about your request for temporary suspension. However: While pushing untested stuff to the AUR that fails to build is obviously not ok, honest mistakes do happen. It seems to me that the user in question seems pretty responsive [1] in the face of constructive feedback, including your own [2]. Could it be that they just find it difficult to respond to requests that are not clearly actionable (example [3])? Regards Claudia [1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/matthewq337/comments [2]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/librewolf-hg#comment-981180 [3]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-glfw#comment-1021938
On 5/1/25 3:49 PM, Claudia Pellegrino wrote:
Hi Michał,
mistakes in packaging without seemingly any improvement show that matthewq337 doesn't care about state of packages. I am therefore calling for moderator action, to prevent this from happening so that Matthew can reflect.
No strong opinion about your request for temporary suspension. However:
While pushing untested stuff to the AUR that fails to build is obviously not ok, honest mistakes do happen.
It seems to me that the user in question seems pretty responsive [1] in the face of constructive feedback, including your own [2].
Could it be that they just find it difficult to respond to requests that are not clearly actionable (example [3])?
Regards Claudia
[1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/matthewq337/comments
[2]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/librewolf-hg#comment-981180
[3]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-glfw#comment-1021938
Hi everyone, Thanks for the report and for sharing thoughts. This situation is being currently handled by the AUR moderation staff. Let's please not engage further in this thread to avoid any potential (and unnecessary) escalation. Thanks in advance :) -- Regards, Robin Candau / Antiz
This situation is being currently handled by the AUR moderation staff.
could you add some transparency though, because otherwise it gives off some Stasi vibe.
On 5/1/25 10:04 PM, Actionless Loveless wrote:
This situation is being currently handled by the AUR moderation staff.
could you add some transparency though, because otherwise it gives off some Stasi vibe.
I'm not sure the comparaison was relevant, necessary and really appropriate here... To quote our Code Of Conduct's [1] enforcement chapter [2]: "warning will usually be communicated *in private* to the user and needs to be acknowledged in writing in order to make sure that the user has read and understood the scope of their transgression." As said above, this is usually dealt with concerned parties *privately*. Our enforcement decisions logs doesn't have to be made public. Regardless, in case it has any impact for you whatsoever, you'd be please to know that both parties have been formally warned for their respectives transgression :) Now let's please move on. [1] https://terms.archlinux.org/docs/code-of-conduct/ [2] https://terms.archlinux.org/docs/code-of-conduct/#enforcement -- Regards, Robin Candau / Antiz
thanks for clarification, this sounds less abstract. i am concerned purely as a user of python-glfw, no additional interest.
El jue, 01-05-2025 a las 23:44 +0200, Actionless Loveless escribió:
i am concerned purely as a user of python-glfw, no additional interest.
I just updated it to the latest version. I can't take care of the package because I don't use it and it is preferable that someone who does use it takes care of it. Greetings. -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me
I think whatever secret communication you performed it seems to help for long enough, because over the last couple of days i saw that same user spamming totally nonsense/wrong requests: https://0x0.st/PMhH.png could it be communicated more clearly to use arch linux forums for asking questions instead of randomly clicking whatever links are clickable on the packaging page? On Fri, May 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM Óscar García Amor <ogarcia@moire.org> wrote:
El jue, 01-05-2025 a las 23:44 +0200, Actionless Loveless escribió:
i am concerned purely as a user of python-glfw, no additional interest.
I just updated it to the latest version. I can't take care of the package because I don't use it and it is preferable that someone who does use it takes care of it.
Greetings.
-- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me
participants (5)
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Actionless Loveless
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Claudia Pellegrino
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Michał
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Robin Candau
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Óscar García Amor