On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Alessio Bolognino wrote:

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On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Allan McRae wrote:

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Hi TUs,

Following this post on the forums ( http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=447186), I would like to remind people that it is good etiquette to let the maintainer of a package in

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AUR know when you are moving their package to [community]. Either a

On Mon 2008-11-10 07:07, w9ya wrote: the direct

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email, or a nice thank you for their work as an AUR comment.

OR..... Be polite and ASK them if it is alright to do so.

IMHO there is no need to *ask* users the permission to move a package in [community]; users already know "their" packages can be moved in an official repo, it seems to me only a waste of time (but I agree is a good etiquette to notify the user).

Moreover, I wonder what would you do if a user denied the permission to move a package in an official repo...

P.s. Please don't top-post

-- Alessio (molok) Bolognino

Well, good point. I was brief and perhaps too much so above. Basically on my initlal contact I would ask them if there was any reason they did NOT want the package moved into community (by me). Bob Finch