[aur-general] Package promotion process
When a package has hundreds of votes, what keeps it from getting promoted into Community? I'm talking specifically about cower:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cower/
Bootstrapping AUR on fresh installs is manual, what's the reason cower hasn't been promoted to Community so it's easy to install with pacman and have AUR usable out-of-the-box? (apologies if this has been discussed before and I'm opening some sort of hornet's nest)
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On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 11:29:45AM -0600, Troy Engel wrote:
When a package has hundreds of votes, what keeps it from getting promoted into Community? I'm talking specifically about cower:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cower/
Bootstrapping AUR on fresh installs is manual, what's the reason cower hasn't been promoted to Community so it's easy to install with pacman and have AUR usable out-of-the-box? (apologies if this has been discussed before and I'm opening some sort of hornet's nest)
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Fun fact, cower *was* in [community] for a very short period of time:
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2010-December/018893.h...
It shall never return.
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 11:29:45AM -0600, Troy Engel wrote:
When a package has hundreds of votes, what keeps it from getting promoted into Community? I'm talking specifically about cower:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cower/
Bootstrapping AUR on fresh installs is manual, what's the reason cower hasn't been promoted to Community so it's easy to install with pacman and have AUR usable out-of-the-box? (apologies if this has been discussed before and I'm opening some sort of hornet's nest)
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It appears that there are intentionally no AUR helpers in the official repo.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR:
Warning: There is not and will never be an official mechanism for installing build material from the AUR. All AUR users should be familiar with the build process.
Cower is a little different since it does not automate the building, but the idea seems to apply.
On 28/11/14 12:32 PM, Dave Reisner wrote:
It shall never return.
Never say never, the rules could be revisited one day :P. It makes sense to forbid automatic installation, but it's a bit silly to forbid search / downloading from the AUR when we permit it for other third party dumping grounds like PyPi.
On 28/11, Daniel Micay wrote:
On 28/11/14 12:32 PM, Dave Reisner wrote:
It shall never return.
Never say never, the rules could be revisited one day :P. It makes sense to forbid automatic installation, but it's a bit silly to forbid search / downloading from the AUR when we permit it for other third party dumping grounds like PyPi.
Especially when burp is allowed to be in there too.
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Daniel Micay
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Dave Reisner
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Johannes Löthberg
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Troy Engel