On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:27:33PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:

Hi all,

As part of the TU meetings it was decided to post the proposal for restricting packages entering [community] here for discussion before voting. Here is the current wording:

[proposal]

* Only "popular" packages may enter the repo, as defined by 1% usage from pkgstats or 10 votes on the AUR.

* Automatic exceptions to this rule are: - i18n packages - accessibility packages - drivers - dependencies, including makedeps and optdeps - packages that are part of a collection and are intended to be distributed together, provided the primary part of this collection satisfies the definition of popular

* Any additions not covered by the above criteria must first be proposed on the aur-general mailing list, explaining the reason for the exemption (e.g. renamed package, new package) at which point a general consensus from the TUs will be reached. TUs with large numbers of "non-popular" packages are more likely to be rejected.

* TUs are strongly encouraged to move packages they currently maintain from [community] if they have low usage. No enforcement will be made, although resigning TUs packages may be filtered before adoption can occur.

[end proposal]

Thank you for taking the initiative to put this forward Allan. I really think we've had enough discussion about this topic. Nevertheless the motion requires a set discussion period and voting period. How about five days discussion, and five days voting? Cheers!