[aur-general] value of "charity" package ownership?
For a while now, I've been adopting packages that I'm not actually interested in, and in some cases don't really even understand, just because I have the time to help out and want to be a nice guy. I'm having second thoughts about the wisdom of this. Should I orphan these packages, on the off-chance that somebody more appropriate wants to own them? Is a mediocre maintainer better than no maintainer?
Ray Kohler wrote:
For a while now, I've been adopting packages that I'm not actually interested in, and in some cases don't really even understand, just because I have the time to help out and want to be a nice guy. I'm having second thoughts about the wisdom of this. Should I orphan these packages, on the off-chance that somebody more appropriate wants to own them? Is a mediocre maintainer better than no maintainer?
If you feel the need to abandon a package or two, feel free to let us know... someone will probably be happy to take them off your hands. :P -- Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227) griffithsdj@archlinux.us http://ghost1227.com
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Daniel J Griffiths <ghost1227@archlinux.us>wrote:
Ray Kohler wrote:
For a while now, I've been adopting packages that I'm not actually interested in, and in some cases don't really even understand, just because I have the time to help out and want to be a nice guy. I'm having second thoughts about the wisdom of this. Should I orphan these packages, on the off-chance that somebody more appropriate wants to own them? Is a mediocre maintainer better than no maintainer?
If you feel the need to abandon a package or two, feel free to let us know... someone will probably be happy to take them off your hands. :P
Ok, I've orphaned the following packages, which are ether difficult in some way for me, or for which I would be unable to support any problems users may find: dvdwizard eclim festival-hts-voices ffmpeg-pspvc go-oo-bin-base krb5-crypto lib32-freeglut lib32-gmp lib32-jdk lib32-libasyncns lib32-libcap lib32-libopenssl2 lib32-libsasl lib32-libvorbis lib32-libxp lib32-pulseaudio lib32-xulrunner libcapi20 libtorrent-unstable megamario nspluginwrapper-ubuntu paq8 poco qtjambi shrip sysbench task veusz vilefault virtualbox_bin_additions x264-pspvc
Ray Kohler wrote: [...]
virtualbox_bin_additions
Adopted. I use virtualbox a lot, so I hope I can be a good mantainer/tester :) -- mitoyarzun http://www.archlinux.cl/
I was waiting for these: ffmpeg-pspvc x264-pspvc pspvc =D -- Tomás A. Schertel http://tomas.archlinux-br.org/ ---------------------------------------------- Linux Registered User #304838 Arch Linux User http://www.archlinux-br.org/ ---------------------------------------------- On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:30 AM, nathan owe. <ndowens04@gmail.com> wrote:
Jaime Oyarzun Knittel wrote:
Ray Kohler wrote: [...]
virtualbox_bin_additions
Adopted. I use virtualbox a lot, so I hope I can be a good mantainer/tester :)
Adopted dvdwizard, no need to let it go around by itself :p and more pkgs for me lol. also cleaned it up as well, needed it
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Tomás Acauan Schertel <tschertel@gmail.com>wrote:
I was waiting for these:
ffmpeg-pspvc x264-pspvc pspvc
I heard a rumor that "normal" ffmpeg and x264 are now sufficient for this purpose, and that's why pspvc hasn't been updated for such a long time. It's also why I didn't feel motivated to maintain them - I didn't know if anyone was still using them much any longer.
I heard those rumors too. I'll find out. -- Tomás A. Schertel http://tomas.archlinux-br.org/ ---------------------------------------------- Linux Registered User #304838 Arch Linux User http://www.archlinux-br.org/ ---------------------------------------------- On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Ray Kohler <ataraxia937@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Tomás Acauan Schertel <tschertel@gmail.com>wrote:
I was waiting for these:
ffmpeg-pspvc x264-pspvc pspvc
I heard a rumor that "normal" ffmpeg and x264 are now sufficient for this purpose, and that's why pspvc hasn't been updated for such a long time. It's also why I didn't feel motivated to maintain them - I didn't know if anyone was still using them much any longer.
Ray Kohler wrote:
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Daniel J Griffiths <ghost1227@archlinux.us>wrote:
Ray Kohler wrote:
For a while now, I've been adopting packages that I'm not actually interested in, and in some cases don't really even understand, just because I have the time to help out and want to be a nice guy. I'm having second thoughts about the wisdom of this. Should I orphan these packages, on the off-chance that somebody more appropriate wants to own them? Is a mediocre maintainer better than no maintainer?
If you feel the need to abandon a package or two, feel free to let us know... someone will probably be happy to take them off your hands. :P
Ok, I've orphaned the following packages, which are ether difficult in some way for me, or for which I would be unable to support any problems users may find:
dvdwizard eclim festival-hts-voices ffmpeg-pspvc go-oo-bin-base krb5-crypto lib32-freeglut lib32-gmp lib32-jdk lib32-libasyncns lib32-libcap lib32-libopenssl2 lib32-libsasl lib32-libvorbis lib32-libxp lib32-pulseaudio lib32-xulrunner libcapi20 libtorrent-unstable megamario nspluginwrapper-ubuntu paq8 poco qtjambi shrip sysbench task veusz vilefault virtualbox_bin_additions x264-pspvc
Took sysbench and shrip -- Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227) griffithsdj@archlinux.us http://ghost1227.com
Only take packages you're motivated to maintain. If that means only the ones you use, do that. If it means that you'll take whatever package is orphaned, do that. Do whatever you like, just don't burn yourself out just to keep a package from being an orphan :)
participants (6)
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Daenyth Blank
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Daniel J Griffiths
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Jaime Oyarzun Knittel
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nathan owe.
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Ray Kohler
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Tomás Acauan Schertel