[aur-general] Moving packages to Community
I had the same "problem" a few weeks ago, when the polipo package I was maintaining was moved to [Community] without any notice. I got aware of this when yaourt told me my version of polipo was not the same as in the repos… imagine my surprise when I didn't find my package on AUR anymore. Not that I particularly care about that package, or that I didn't want it to be in [Community], in fact it's for the best, less work for me ! But what I didn't like was that it was done without any comment or notice. Don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely not implying that it was MY precious package and that it felt like stealing, or that he had to wait for my approval. It's just that talking about a community-driven repository, the least you could expect from any user (and even more from a *trusted* user) would be to communicate about what he's doing, so that everything goes clear, acknowledged and understood. After discovering this, I emailed Jelle van der Waa (who adopted the package), on 01/21, writing :
Hello, I'm SataMaxx on AUR and was maintaining the polipo package. I've seen that you adopted and ported it to [Community] and be assured that I really don't mind about this, however I think it would have been nice to notify me, just as a matter of good communication practice.
Thank you, have a nice day ! "
And I didn't get any answer…
On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 21:00 +0100, Maxime Wack wrote:
I had the same "problem" a few weeks ago, when the polipo package I was maintaining was moved to [Community] without any notice. I got aware of this when yaourt told me my version of polipo was not the same as in the repos… imagine my surprise when I didn't find my package on AUR anymore. Not that I particularly care about that package, or that I didn't want it to be in [Community], in fact it's for the best, less work for me ! But what I didn't like was that it was done without any comment or notice. Don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely not implying that it was MY precious package and that it felt like stealing, or that he had to wait for my approval. It's just that talking about a community-driven repository, the least you could expect from any user (and even more from a *trusted* user) would be to communicate about what he's doing, so that everything goes clear, acknowledged and understood. After discovering this, I emailed Jelle van der Waa (who adopted the package), on 01/21, writing :
Hello, I'm SataMaxx on AUR and was maintaining the polipo package. I've seen that you adopted and ported it to [Community] and be assured that I really don't mind about this, however I think it would have been nice to notify me, just as a matter of good communication practice.
Thank you, have a nice day ! "
And I didn't get any answer…
I apologize for taking your package without emailing or notifiying you and more I feel bad for not replying to your email. And now i am ashamed on the mailing list, I won't forget to mail the next time I adopt packages and move them to [community]. -- Jelle van der Waa
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Jelle van der Waa <jelle@vdwaa.nl> wrote:
I apologize for taking your package without emailing or notifiying you and more I feel bad for not replying to your email. And now i am ashamed on the mailing list,
I won't forget to mail the next time I adopt packages and move them to [community].
Let me just point out that in this case the Gmail Labs feature 'Canned Responses' is incredibly useful. --Kaiting. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 21:00:32 +0100 Maxime Wack <maximewack@free.fr> wrote:
I had the same "problem" a few weeks ago, when the polipo package I was maintaining was moved to [Community] without any notice. I got aware of this when yaourt told me my version of polipo was not the same as in the repos… imagine my surprise when I didn't find my package on AUR anymore. Not that I particularly care about that package, or that I didn't want it to be in [Community], in fact it's for the best, less work for me ! But what I didn't like was that it was done without any comment or notice. Don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely not implying that it was MY precious package and that it felt like stealing, or that he had to wait for my approval. It's just that talking about a community-driven repository, the least you could expect from any user (and even more from a *trusted* user) would be to communicate about what he's doing, so that everything goes clear, acknowledged and understood. After discovering this, I emailed Jelle van der Waa (who adopted the package), on 01/21, writing :
Hello, I'm SataMaxx on AUR and was maintaining the polipo package. I've seen that you adopted and ported it to [Community] and be assured that I really don't mind about this, however I think it would have been nice to notify me, just as a matter of good communication practice.
Thank you, have a nice day ! "
And I didn't get any answer…
Now, that is outrageous. Stealing your package is already a very nasty thing to do, but not replying to your email is unforgivable! From today onwards we shall call him: Jelle, the Soulless. -- Cheers, Hilton
participants (4)
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Hilton Medeiros
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Jelle van der Waa
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Kaiting Chen
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Maxime Wack