Apparently there must be a shortage of TUs, since there are several orphaned packages in AUR. I'm thinking of becoming a TU but I have only used Arch Linux for two months. Ali On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Smartboy wrote:

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Ali H. Caliskan wrote:

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Hi,

I can't adopt the orphaned mysql-gui-tools package. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9126

ali

That is because it is a community package (not an unsupported one). Perhaps one of the TUs can move it to unsupported.

Smartboy

Thanks for you clarification. What I mean is that I think TUs shouldn't leave any orphaned backages at all. I've read TU specifications, and that's why I'm trying my best way to serve the purpose of becoming TU. Kind regards, Ali On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Andrei Thorp wrote:

Not entirely sure what you mean -- there are 22 community packages that have been orphaned. That's not a tremendous amount. Are these the packages you meant, or are you counting all orphaned packages on AUR? There are 1286 of those, but they aren't the responsibilty of the TUs to maintain unless they want to.

(Just to clarify.)

Regardless, I'm sure it wouldn't hurt Arch if you attempted to become a TU. I'm not one, but I recommend that you read the information about how to become one if you haven't:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TU_Person_Specification http://dev.archlinux.org/~simo/TUbylaws.htmlhttp://dev.archlinux.org/%7Esimo/TUbylaws.html(read section on TU Addition at least)

Cheers,

-Andrei 'Garoth' Thorp

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Ali H. Caliskan wrote:

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Apparently there must be a shortage of TUs, since there are several orphaned packages in AUR. I'm thinking of becoming a TU but I have only used Arch Linux for two months.

Ali

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Smartboy wrote:

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On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Ali H. Caliskan wrote:

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Hi,

I can't adopt the orphaned mysql-gui-tools package. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9126

ali

That is because it is a community package (not an unsupported one). Perhaps one of the TUs can move it to unsupported.

Smartboy

I think it's a wise decision. I see many orphaned packages that I would personally give time to maintain. Ali On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Allan McRae wrote:

Ali H. Caliskan wrote:

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What I mean is that I think TUs shouldn't leave any orphaned backages at all.

Well, you should see the number of orphans in the [extra] repo... (~500). In an ideal world, there would be no orphans but we need to weight up moving things to unsupported compared to having a slightly out of date package.

Allan