[aur-general] Announcement Input
Hello everybody, I would like to have something like an announcement input for AUR packages. Just like comments, but the announcement should be editable by the maintainer only and shown at the top all the time. This could be handy for something like:
Currently this application does not remember passwords. This is because gnome-keyring is broken. (https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/39913)
Preventing users from complaining over and over again when comments move down. Or:
This is a git package. Most of the time it compiles fine with $dependency. If it does not please try $dependency-git.
Any comments? -- main(a){char*c=/* Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH" "CX:;",b;for(a/* Chris get my mail address: */=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/* gcc -o sig sig.c && ./sig */b/42*2-3)*42);}
I haven't understood the deal. Did you announce this already, or do you still want to announce something or are you announcing the introduction of announcements on the mailing list and not the comments (which aren't the comments) of announcements through comments (but not as such)?
Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:48:02 +0200 Martti Kühne <mysatyre@gmail.com>:
I haven't understood the deal. Did you announce this already, or do you still want to announce something or are you announcing the introduction of announcements on the mailing list and not the comments (which aren't the comments) of announcements through comments (but not as such)?
He would like to have an 'announcement' or 'sticky post' feature for individual package pages. --byte
Jens Adam <jra@byte.cx> on Fri, 2014/07/25 11:59:
Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:48:02 +0200 Martti Kühne <mysatyre@gmail.com>:
I haven't understood the deal. Did you announce this already, or do you still want to announce something or are you announcing the introduction of announcements on the mailing list and not the comments (which aren't the comments) of announcements through comments (but not as such)?
He would like to have an 'announcement' or 'sticky post' feature for individual package pages.
Exactly. Probably 'sticky comment' is a better name for what I want. -- main(a){char*c=/* Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH" "CX:;",b;for(a/* Chris get my mail address: */=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/* gcc -o sig sig.c && ./sig */b/42*2-3)*42);}
On 25-07-14 18:20, Christian Hesse wrote:
Exactly. Probably 'sticky comment' is a better name for what I want.
I would also like to have the option fro sticky comments. example : I maintain cndrvcups-lb package, but there's also a cndrvcups-lb-bin package. For some users my package works fine, for others only the -bin package works. Sticky comments would allow me to point out there is an alternative package. LVV
2014-07-25 6:43 GMT-03:00 Christian Hesse <list@eworm.de>:
Hello everybody,
I would like to have something like an announcement input for AUR packages. Just like comments, but the announcement should be editable by the maintainer only and shown at the top all the time. This could be handy for something like:
Currently this application does not remember passwords. This is because gnome-keyring is broken. (https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/39913)
Preventing users from complaining over and over again when comments move down. Or:
This is a git package. Most of the time it compiles fine with $dependency. If it does not please try $dependency-git.
Any comments?
I don't know if it is the case, but i maintain the redmine AUR package and for this kind of "announcement" i use the wiki, specifically the troubleshooting section. There i list any kind if difficult the user can have or myself have passed through. i tried to maintain the wiki uptodate and announced it at the comments for make it clear that the wiki should be the first stop for search. ;) It is a good policy?
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 11:43:51AM +0200, Christian Hesse wrote:
Hello everybody,
I would like to have something like an announcement input for AUR packages. Just like comments, but the announcement should be editable by the maintainer only and shown at the top all the time. This could be handy for something like:
Currently this application does not remember passwords. This is because gnome-keyring is broken. (https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/39913)
Ian Scott <ian@perebruin.com> on Fri, 2014/07/25 09:42:
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 11:43:51AM +0200, Christian Hesse wrote:
Hello everybody,
I would like to have something like an announcement input for AUR packages. Just like comments, but the announcement should be editable by the maintainer only and shown at the top all the time. This could be handy for something like:
Currently this application does not remember passwords. This is because gnome-keyring is broken. (https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/39913)
Ah, did not know there is an open bug already. Thanks! Voted... ;) -- main(a){char*c=/* Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH" "CX:;",b;for(a/* Chris get my mail address: */=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/* gcc -o sig sig.c && ./sig */b/42*2-3)*42);}
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:43:51 +0200 Christian Hesse <list@eworm.de> wrote:
Hello everybody,
I would like to have something like an announcement input for AUR packages. Just like comments, but the announcement should be editable by the maintainer only and shown at the top all the time. This could be handy for something like:
Currently this application does not remember passwords. This is because gnome-keyring is broken. (https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/39913)
Preventing users from complaining over and over again when comments move down. Or:
This is a git package. Most of the time it compiles fine with $dependency. If it does not please try $dependency-git.
Any comments?
I'm not sure about the usefulness of this feature, or even if AUR packagers want it. However, if this goes on a day, my suggestion is this input should be an entry of .AURINFO. There is no need to clutter the web interface with editable fields. A typical packaging workflow would be: $ mkaurball $ <script/program to change announcement here> <path to src aurball here> "Developer announcement / sticky post here". This way, implementing this would be very easy, just a matter of parsing the correct entry and displaying it appropriately. -- - Thiago
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+1 for it! I was about to suggest this feature this week... :) I would use this to announce the GitHub repository of all my packages, so anyone could submit a PR instead of pastebining a fixed or updated PKGBUILD. - -- Kind regards, Damian Nowak StratusHost www.AtlasHost.eu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJT1itbAAoJENUJYSy7yByf/t0QAK/mItYleuazxvx7ihYHzYsw b+ggtgQhID46mJX3ga6SKY8BC7pQRg+lx/WTT54tbNAfeT5ykmbXnXIjzYHKZ+Df RdMUyB0gJybgf5ZpjHdhND0lpWrybQzTfiGWyLEW7qqFFrYLYI2Dtzy5UbURUPTy +ZNiBLwadcxPZw8Y9+C6scEAkzGdvY51HYqsfhIsDIHP0sPOyi5VN8A0QuBjyaL0 hFTowvgDpJW3OdN7nd6z4RsgErdP/1/IGq9EIKwHOyu544wm3T3+0dE0yA+IMVPs QrajOhT9nOSE6eFs5exbf55ENMyBeFrUnbYzc1tWqNOqJSxPfthyuUSYLGO7f0Op 8NVEQY9eJ85WA6A7W2I15aGip//FCBFw1d+Ml7r3LaSVbVTDtyaYlWinjcddcusv nA5BgbM+Edr4v5279IoPZF1rNvWiyFGiQFwbTqxtXcie6BfQGiwdGN5whMwXeSlA 6nfKBWAxZnpmrl0JN7QzQZ2IRu37OQ1tOuUyd2Hfiq2c1z1dj9k0LfZRDpxPMPH3 iewT5ViYUGXd/Y+hlNaw8vK4yE1lBnLfi9OSjZtvH5io0xP4chcdplYvRSvJ/Wic HRFvlvxMYXUf3+XNB68oli8S5KdVSLRhhFqNDthpbqN4NcNaMuPWXMSOz5tvBhWC nICgO9a53i/q2uaMWXIi =5JDG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
participants (8)
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Christian Hesse
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Eduardo Machado
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Ian Scott
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Jens Adam
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LoneVVolf
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Martti Kühne
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Nowaker
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Thiago Barroso Perrotta