[aur-general] Resigning as a TU
Hi all, I have decided it is time for me to resign as a TU. This has been a decision that has been on my mind for a while. I am wanting to focus my efforts on what I see as core parts of Arch (primarily pacman development and what I consider "core" packages). I currently leave any requests for package orphaning and deletion and AUR password change requests to others and I have been relying on others to check TU applicants packaging skills, so I am not doing TU stuff anyway. I will still be around to give my opinion is someone wants it. I will continue maintaining my packages in [community] (at least for the time being) but I no longer use the following packages and so they are up for adoption if someone wants them: axel barrage blobwars bmpanel colordiff critter curlftpfs dtach exaile (with cddb-py) gauplol gimmix (with libnxml) gnochm gnome-cup-manager gnome-do + gnome-do-plugins (with flickrnet + gnome-keyring-sharp-svn + notify-sharp-svn) gnome-mplayer + gecko-mediaplayer gnome-sbtitles (with sublib) gnomebaker gprename gtk-recordmydesktop gtvg gwget libev menumaker mozplugger multiget mupen64plus ogmrip (with gpac) pida pidgin-otr pyenchant pympd python-pyalsaaudio python-sexy pytube (with ffmpeg2theora) qt-recordmydesktop shake sloccount solarwolf supertuxkart (with plib) tagtools teeworlds terminator upx visualboyadvance wbar winefish xfce4-places-plugin xmltv (with perl-fcgi + perl-html-tree + perl-http-cache-transparent + perl-http-response-encoding + perl-lingua-en-numbers + perl-lingua-en-numbers-ordinate + perl-lingua-preferred + perl-soap-lite + perl-text-bidi + perl-text-kakasi + kakasi + perl-unicode-utf8simple - Note all are rarely updated so this is not much work...) I think any TU can disown another's packages so just go ahead and adopt what you want from that list. But stick to the list as I am keeping some packages that I do still use... Allan
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Hi all,
I have decided it is time for me to resign as a TU. This has been a decision that has been on my mind for a while. I am wanting to focus my efforts on what I see as core parts of Arch (primarily pacman development and what I consider "core" packages). I currently leave any requests for package orphaning and deletion and AUR password change requests to others and I have been relying on others to check TU applicants packaging skills, so I am not doing TU stuff anyway. I will still be around to give my opinion is someone wants it.
I will continue maintaining my packages in [community] (at least for the time being) but I no longer use the following packages and so they are up for adoption if someone wants them:
colordiff pytube (with ffmpeg2theora)
Adopted.
Allan McRae wrote:
Hi all,
I have decided it is time for me to resign as a TU. This has been a decision that has been on my mind for a while. I am wanting to focus my efforts on what I see as core parts of Arch (primarily pacman development and what I consider "core" packages). I currently leave any requests for package orphaning and deletion and AUR password change requests to others and I have been relying on others to check TU applicants packaging skills, so I am not doing TU stuff anyway. I will still be around to give my opinion is someone wants it.
I will continue maintaining my packages in [community] (at least for the time being) but I no longer use the following packages and so they are up for adoption if someone wants them:
axel barrage blobwars bmpanel colordiff critter curlftpfs dtach exaile (with cddb-py) gauplol gimmix (with libnxml) gnochm gnome-cup-manager gnome-do + gnome-do-plugins (with flickrnet + gnome-keyring-sharp-svn + notify-sharp-svn) gnome-mplayer + gecko-mediaplayer gnome-sbtitles (with sublib) gnomebaker gprename gtk-recordmydesktop gtvg gwget libev menumaker mozplugger multiget mupen64plus ogmrip (with gpac) pida pidgin-otr pyenchant pympd python-pyalsaaudio python-sexy pytube (with ffmpeg2theora) qt-recordmydesktop shake sloccount solarwolf supertuxkart (with plib) tagtools teeworlds terminator upx visualboyadvance wbar winefish xfce4-places-plugin xmltv (with perl-fcgi + perl-html-tree + perl-http-cache-transparent + perl-http-response-encoding + perl-lingua-en-numbers + perl-lingua-en-numbers-ordinate + perl-lingua-preferred + perl-soap-lite + perl-text-bidi + perl-text-kakasi + kakasi + perl-unicode-utf8simple - Note all are rarely updated so this is not much work...)
I think any TU can disown another's packages so just go ahead and adopt what you want from that list. But stick to the list as I am keeping some packages that I do still use...
Allan
exaile gnochm gnome-mplayer + gecko-mediaplayer gtk-recordmydesktop qt-recordmydesktop teeworlds terminator upx all adopted. that should take a good chunk out of it.
Daniel J Griffiths wrote:
Allan McRae wrote:
Hi all,
I have decided it is time for me to resign as a TU. This has been a decision that has been on my mind for a while. I am wanting to focus my efforts on what I see as core parts of Arch (primarily pacman development and what I consider "core" packages). I currently leave any requests for package orphaning and deletion and AUR password change requests to others and I have been relying on others to check TU applicants packaging skills, so I am not doing TU stuff anyway. I will still be around to give my opinion is someone wants it.
I will continue maintaining my packages in [community] (at least for the time being) but I no longer use the following packages and so they are up for adoption if someone wants them:
axel barrage blobwars bmpanel colordiff critter curlftpfs dtach exaile (with cddb-py) gauplol gimmix (with libnxml) gnochm gnome-cup-manager gnome-do + gnome-do-plugins (with flickrnet + gnome-keyring-sharp-svn + notify-sharp-svn) gnome-mplayer + gecko-mediaplayer gnome-sbtitles (with sublib) gnomebaker gprename gtk-recordmydesktop gtvg gwget libev menumaker mozplugger multiget mupen64plus ogmrip (with gpac) pida pidgin-otr pyenchant pympd python-pyalsaaudio python-sexy pytube (with ffmpeg2theora) qt-recordmydesktop shake sloccount solarwolf supertuxkart (with plib) tagtools teeworlds terminator upx visualboyadvance wbar winefish xfce4-places-plugin xmltv (with perl-fcgi + perl-html-tree + perl-http-cache-transparent + perl-http-response-encoding + perl-lingua-en-numbers + perl-lingua-en-numbers-ordinate + perl-lingua-preferred + perl-soap-lite + perl-text-bidi + perl-text-kakasi + kakasi + perl-unicode-utf8simple - Note all are rarely updated so this is not much work...)
I think any TU can disown another's packages so just go ahead and adopt what you want from that list. But stick to the list as I am keeping some packages that I do still use...
Allan
exaile gnochm gnome-mplayer + gecko-mediaplayer gtk-recordmydesktop qt-recordmydesktop teeworlds terminator upx
all adopted. that should take a good chunk out of it.
There are comments in the AUR about gnome-mplayer (adding nautilaus plugin or something...) and qt-recordmydesktop (we site moved) that you may want to look at. Allan
Adopted axel, which I use. Allan, you could disown any packages that you won't be maintaining anymore, so we could easily search for orphans in [community] and get a list with description for each package.
Evangelos Foutras wrote:
Allan, you could disown any packages that you won't be maintaining anymore, so we could easily search for orphans in [community] and get a list with description for each package.
I could do, but it is not my aim to leave a whole heap of orphaned packages in [community] so I will continue maintaining what is not adopted from that list for the time being. You could just search for my packages and check any you want are on the list I provided. Allan
Allan McRae wrote:
but I no longer use the following packages and so they are up for adoption if someone wants them: curlftpfs dtach ... sloccount
Adopted. Regards, -- Chris
2009/4/4 Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>:
libev pidgin-otr Adopted
-- Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer
Allan McRae schrieb:
Hi all,
I have decided it is time for me to resign as a TU. This has been a decision that has been on my mind for a while. I am wanting to focus my efforts on what I see as core parts of Arch (primarily pacman development and what I consider "core" packages). I currently leave any requests for package orphaning and deletion and AUR password change requests to others and I have been relying on others to check TU applicants packaging skills, so I am not doing TU stuff anyway. I will still be around to give my opinion is someone wants it.
I will continue maintaining my packages in [community] (at least for the time being) but I no longer use the following packages and so they are up for adoption if someone wants them:
axel barrage blobwars bmpanel colordiff critter curlftpfs dtach exaile (with cddb-py) gauplol gimmix (with libnxml) gnochm gnome-cup-manager gnome-do + gnome-do-plugins (with flickrnet + gnome-keyring-sharp-svn + notify-sharp-svn) gnome-mplayer + gecko-mediaplayer gnome-sbtitles (with sublib) gnomebaker gprename gtk-recordmydesktop gtvg gwget libev menumaker mozplugger multiget mupen64plus ogmrip (with gpac) pida pidgin-otr pyenchant pympd python-pyalsaaudio python-sexy pytube (with ffmpeg2theora) qt-recordmydesktop shake sloccount solarwolf supertuxkart (with plib) tagtools teeworlds terminator upx visualboyadvance wbar winefish xfce4-places-plugin xmltv (with perl-fcgi + perl-html-tree + perl-http-cache-transparent + perl-http-response-encoding + perl-lingua-en-numbers + perl-lingua-en-numbers-ordinate + perl-lingua-preferred + perl-soap-lite + perl-text-bidi + perl-text-kakasi + kakasi + perl-unicode-utf8simple - Note all are rarely updated so this is not much work...)
I think any TU can disown another's packages so just go ahead and adopt what you want from that list. But stick to the list as I am keeping some packages that I do still use...
Allan
Allan, I always wondered how you managed to do all the stuff your involved in. So thank you for your engagement and good luck to upcoming projects. I adopted : gtvg multiget tagtool winefish xmltv perl-fcgi perl-html-tree perl-http-cache-transparent perl-http-response-encoding perl-lingua-en-numbers perl-lingua-en-numbers-ordinate perl-lingua-preferred perl-soap-lite perl-text-bidi perl-text-kakasi kakasi perl-unicode-utf8simple According to xmltv's PKGBUILD I also have to move perl-date-manip to community as a dependency. Regards Stefan
Stefan Husmann schrieb:
Allan McRae schrieb:
Hi all,
I have decided it is time for me to resign as a TU. This has been a decision that has been on my mind for a while. I am wanting to focus my efforts on what I see as core parts of Arch (primarily pacman development and what I consider "core" packages). I currently leave any requests for package orphaning and deletion and AUR password change requests to others and I have been relying on others to check TU applicants packaging skills, so I am not doing TU stuff anyway. I will still be around to give my opinion is someone wants it.
I will continue maintaining my packages in [community] (at least for the time being) but I no longer use the following packages and so they are up for adoption if someone wants them:
axel barrage blobwars bmpanel colordiff critter curlftpfs dtach exaile (with cddb-py) gauplol gimmix (with libnxml) gnochm gnome-cup-manager gnome-do + gnome-do-plugins (with flickrnet + gnome-keyring-sharp-svn + notify-sharp-svn) gnome-mplayer + gecko-mediaplayer gnome-sbtitles (with sublib) gnomebaker gprename gtk-recordmydesktop gtvg gwget libev menumaker mozplugger multiget mupen64plus ogmrip (with gpac) pida pidgin-otr pyenchant pympd python-pyalsaaudio python-sexy pytube (with ffmpeg2theora) qt-recordmydesktop shake sloccount solarwolf supertuxkart (with plib) tagtools teeworlds terminator upx visualboyadvance wbar winefish xfce4-places-plugin xmltv (with perl-fcgi + perl-html-tree + perl-http-cache-transparent + perl-http-response-encoding + perl-lingua-en-numbers + perl-lingua-en-numbers-ordinate + perl-lingua-preferred + perl-soap-lite + perl-text-bidi + perl-text-kakasi + kakasi + perl-unicode-utf8simple - Note all are rarely updated so this is not much work...)
I think any TU can disown another's packages so just go ahead and adopt what you want from that list. But stick to the list as I am keeping some packages that I do still use...
Allan
Allan, I always wondered how you managed to do all the stuff your involved in. So thank you for your engagement and good luck to upcoming projects.
I adopted : gtvg multiget tagtool winefish xmltv perl-fcgi perl-html-tree perl-http-cache-transparent perl-http-response-encoding perl-lingua-en-numbers perl-lingua-en-numbers-ordinate perl-lingua-preferred perl-soap-lite perl-text-bidi perl-text-kakasi kakasi perl-unicode-utf8simple
According to xmltv's PKGBUILD I also have to move perl-date-manip to community as a dependency.
Regards Stefan
Oops, forget my last remark, the package of perl-date-manip in AUR is a double of that in extra. I will remove it.
An updated list of my packages that are still up for adoption if people are interested: barrage blobwars bmpanel critter gaupol gimmix (with libnxml) gnome-cups-manager gnome-do + gnome-do-plugins (with flickrnet + gnome-keyring-sharp-svn + notify-sharp-svn) gnome-subtitles (with sublib) gnomebaker gprename gwget menumaker mozplugger ogmrip (with gpac) pida pyenchant pympd python-pyalsaaudio python-sexy python-simplejson shake solarwolf supertuxkart (with plib) wbar xfce4-places-plugin
Adopted: bmpanel gnome-do + gnome-do-plugins (with flickrnet + gnome-keyring-sharp-svn + notify-sharp-svn) On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
An updated list of my packages that are still up for adoption if people are interested:
barrage blobwars bmpanel critter gaupol gimmix (with libnxml) gnome-cups-manager gnome-do + gnome-do-plugins (with flickrnet + gnome-keyring-sharp-svn + notify-sharp-svn) gnome-subtitles (with sublib) gnomebaker gprename gwget menumaker mozplugger ogmrip (with gpac) pida pyenchant pympd python-pyalsaaudio python-sexy python-simplejson shake solarwolf supertuxkart (with plib) wbar xfce4-places-plugin
-- Kessia Pinheiro Computer Science Student - Brazil, UFBa Linux System Administrator Arch Linux Trusted User Linux User #389695 http://even.archlinux-br.org --- X Fórum Internacional Software Livre - fisl10 24 a 27 de junho de 2009 PUCRS - Porto Alegre - Brasil
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:41, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
ogmrip (with gpac)
I'll take this for now.
Can I have some despite I'm not a TU? If so, I'd like to have: gaupol python-simplejson Alper KANAT <alperkanat@raptiye.org> Allan McRae wrote:
An updated list of my packages that are still up for adoption if people are interested:
barrage blobwars bmpanel critter gaupol gimmix (with libnxml) gnome-cups-manager gnome-do + gnome-do-plugins (with flickrnet + gnome-keyring-sharp-svn + notify-sharp-svn) gnome-subtitles (with sublib) gnomebaker gprename gwget menumaker mozplugger ogmrip (with gpac) pida pyenchant pympd python-pyalsaaudio python-sexy python-simplejson shake solarwolf supertuxkart (with plib) wbar xfce4-places-plugin
On 17/apr/09, at 18:10, Alper KANAT wrote:
Can I have some despite I'm not a TU?
No, only TUs can adopt packages in [community] Cheers, Ju.
Alper KANAT wrote:
Can I have some despite I'm not a TU?
Not at the moment. I don't really want to move any packages out of [community] so I will continue maintaining what other TU's don't. Allan
What do one need to become a TU? Maybe I'd qualify the necessities..? Alper KANAT <alperkanat@raptiye.org> Allan McRae wrote:
Alper KANAT wrote:
Can I have some despite I'm not a TU?
Not at the moment. I don't really want to move any packages out of [community] so I will continue maintaining what other TU's don't.
Allan
The wiki has information on this regard. -AT On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Alper KANAT <tunix@raptiye.org> wrote:
What do one need to become a TU? Maybe I'd qualify the necessities..?
Alper KANAT <alperkanat@raptiye.org>
Allan McRae wrote:
Alper KANAT wrote:
Can I have some despite I'm not a TU?
Not at the moment. I don't really want to move any packages out of [community] so I will continue maintaining what other TU's don't.
Allan
Hi, My name is Biru Ionut Mircea and i'm addicted to archlinux. :) I'm a 23 year old student from Romania, studying at University Politehnica of Bucharest, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer, Computer Science department. I'm using linux for more than 6 years, using different distributions before i discovered archlinux 3 years ago and in this time i can say that i know almost everything about archlinux. Mainly my contribution to archlinux community was on the forum, bug tracker and aur(username wonder), where i maintain 14 packages [1]. I helped on bug day on 21 march and for my work i got credit from allan and hdoria which i want to thank for that. I want to became a TU because i've noticed that important people in our community are resigning and my favorites packages aren't been updated because of lack of free time. I just want to do something so that our community to enjoy packages up to date. In the future I want to help more in archlinux projects and maybe i will start other projects that the archlinux community could use. Also i want to inform that i don't intend to move in community any of *-ubuntu package My sponsor is Hugo Doria. Thank you. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=wonder -- Ionut
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 18:10, Biru Ionut <biru.ionut@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, My name is Biru Ionut Mircea and i'm addicted to archlinux. :)
I'm a 23 year old student from Romania, studying at University Politehnica of Bucharest, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer, Computer Science department.
I'm using linux for more than 6 years, using different distributions before i discovered archlinux 3 years ago and in this time i can say that i know almost everything about archlinux.
Mainly my contribution to archlinux community was on the forum, bug tracker and aur(username wonder), where i maintain 14 packages [1]. I helped on bug day on 21 march and for my work i got credit from allan and hdoria which i want to thank for that.
I want to became a TU because i've noticed that important people in our community are resigning and my favorites packages aren't been updated because of lack of free time. I just want to do something so that our community to enjoy packages up to date.
In the future I want to help more in archlinux projects and maybe i will start other projects that the archlinux community could use. Also i want to inform that i don't intend to move in community any of *-ubuntu package
My sponsor is Hugo Doria. Thank you.
[1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=wonder
-- Ionut
Everything looks pretty good to me. The only thing I'd recommend is to use $srcdir and $pkgdir in place of $startdir/src and $startdir/pkg, as it makes PKGBUILDs easier to read.
Daenyth Blank wrote:
Everything looks pretty good to me. The only thing I'd recommend is to use $srcdir and $pkgdir in place of $startdir/src and $startdir/pkg, as it makes PKGBUILDs easier to read.
i've fixed all my packages that haven't used $srcdir and $pkgdir. also if you have other question feel free to ask me. -- Ionut
And here is my offical sponsorship message. As Allan said, wonder helped a lot on our bug day and on forums. Also, he have good packaging skils. So, let the discussion period officially begin. :) -- Hugo
Biru Ionut wrote:
Hi, My name is Biru Ionut Mircea and i'm addicted to archlinux. :)
I'm a 23 year old student from Romania, studying at University Politehnica of Bucharest, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer, Computer Science department.
I'm using linux for more than 6 years, using different distributions before i discovered archlinux 3 years ago and in this time i can say that i know almost everything about archlinux.
Mainly my contribution to archlinux community was on the forum, bug tracker and aur(username wonder), where i maintain 14 packages [1]. I helped on bug day on 21 march and for my work i got credit from allan and hdoria which i want to thank for that.
I want to became a TU because i've noticed that important people in our community are resigning and my favorites packages aren't been updated because of lack of free time. I just want to do something so that our community to enjoy packages up to date.
In the future I want to help more in archlinux projects and maybe i will start other projects that the archlinux community could use. Also i want to inform that i don't intend to move in community any of *-ubuntu package
My sponsor is Hugo Doria. Thank you.
If I was still a TU, then I would be sponsoring wonder. He helped out a lot on bug day and also does so on the forums. From my experience dealing with him, he seems to know his way around Linux and his packaging skill look good (only cosmetic improvements needed). Allan
On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 12:10:27AM +0200, Biru Ionut wrote:
Hi, My name is Biru Ionut Mircea and i'm addicted to archlinux. :)
I'm a 23 year old student from Romania, studying at University Politehnica of Bucharest, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer, Computer Science department.
I'm using linux for more than 6 years, using different distributions before i discovered archlinux 3 years ago and in this time i can say that i know almost everything about archlinux.
Mainly my contribution to archlinux community was on the forum, bug tracker and aur(username wonder), where i maintain 14 packages [1]. I helped on bug day on 21 march and for my work i got credit from allan and hdoria which i want to thank for that.
I want to became a TU because i've noticed that important people in our community are resigning and my favorites packages aren't been updated because of lack of free time. I just want to do something so that our community to enjoy packages up to date.
In the future I want to help more in archlinux projects and maybe i will start other projects that the archlinux community could use. Also i want to inform that i don't intend to move in community any of *-ubuntu package
My sponsor is Hugo Doria. Thank you.
[1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=wonder
-- Ionut
Hi, I went through your packages and found out many of them have been previously created and mainained by someone else. I would like to see some of your own contributions, could you maybe point them out? I see in some of your packages the 1st line like: "# $Id: PKGBUILD,..." which comes in PKGBUILDs moved to AUR from the repos, but actually should not be there. You may remove this. I'm also not sure about the actual status of the #Maintainer/#Contributor lines. Maybe some other TU knows, if Maintainer is now allowed in AUR PKGBUILDs. I'm wondering if you are talking about any particular projects you want to help with or start, in your last paragraph? Cheers Jaroslav -- you've wrecked my year's first dream! cawing crow
Jaroslav Lichtblau schrieb:
On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 12:10:27AM +0200, Biru Ionut wrote:
Hi, My name is Biru Ionut Mircea and i'm addicted to archlinux. :)
I'm a 23 year old student from Romania, studying at University Politehnica of Bucharest, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer, Computer Science department.
I'm using linux for more than 6 years, using different distributions before i discovered archlinux 3 years ago and in this time i can say that i know almost everything about archlinux.
Mainly my contribution to archlinux community was on the forum, bug tracker and aur(username wonder), where i maintain 14 packages [1]. I helped on bug day on 21 march and for my work i got credit from allan and hdoria which i want to thank for that.
I want to became a TU because i've noticed that important people in our community are resigning and my favorites packages aren't been updated because of lack of free time. I just want to do something so that our community to enjoy packages up to date.
In the future I want to help more in archlinux projects and maybe i will start other projects that the archlinux community could use. Also i want to inform that i don't intend to move in community any of *-ubuntu package
My sponsor is Hugo Doria. Thank you.
[1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=wonder
-- Ionut
Hi, I went through your packages and found out many of them have been previously created and mainained by someone else. I would like to see some of your own contributions, could you maybe point them out?
I see in some of your packages the 1st line like: "# $Id: PKGBUILD,..." which comes in PKGBUILDs moved to AUR from the repos, but actually should not be there. You may remove this. I'm also not sure about the actual status of the #Maintainer/#Contributor lines. Maybe some other TU knows, if Maintainer is now allowed in AUR PKGBUILDs.
I'm wondering if you are talking about any particular projects you want to help with or start, in your last paragraph?
Cheers Jaroslav
Hello, I think we some time ago came to the conclusion that the one who actually takes care of the package _now_ is the Maintainer, and everyone who formerly maintained the package is a contributor. IMHO exactly this are the meanings of the words "maintainer" and "contributor". But I may be completely wrong. Regarding your packages: makedepends=('autoconf' 'automake' 'libtool' 'pkgconfig') is not needed (cairo-ubuntu). All these tools are in base-devel. Regards Stefan
Am Sonntag, den 05.04.2009, 18:49 +0200 schrieb Stefan Husmann:
Hello,
I think we some time ago came to the conclusion that the one who actually takes care of the package _now_ is the Maintainer, and everyone who formerly maintained the package is a contributor.
A Package Maintainer, in the context of Arch Linux, is either one of the following: *A core Arch Linux developer who maintains software packages in the official repositories (core, extra, or testing). *A Trusted User of the community who maintains software packages in the unsupported/unofficial community repository. A Contributor is a non-TU who maintain packages in AUR
IMHO exactly this are the meanings of the words "maintainer" and "contributor". But I may be completely wrong.
Regards Stefan
Cheers -- Jens Maucher <jensmaucher@online.de> Gnupg: 44FF54EA Fingerprint: 0E54 F345 E7C9 0295 90F8 2B56 CD9A EE71 44FF 54EA
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 13:03, Jens Maucher <jensmaucher@online.de> wrote:
Am Sonntag, den 05.04.2009, 18:49 +0200 schrieb Stefan Husmann:
Hello,
I think we some time ago came to the conclusion that the one who actually takes care of the package _now_ is the Maintainer, and everyone who formerly maintained the package is a contributor.
A Package Maintainer, in the context of Arch Linux, is either one of the following: *A core Arch Linux developer who maintains software packages in the official repositories (core, extra, or testing).
*A Trusted User of the community who maintains software packages in the unsupported/unofficial community repository.
A Contributor is a non-TU who maintain packages in AUR
IMHO exactly this are the meanings of the words "maintainer" and "contributor". But I may be completely wrong.
Regards Stefan
Cheers
-- Jens Maucher <jensmaucher@online.de> Gnupg: 44FF54EA Fingerprint: 0E54 F345 E7C9 0295 90F8 2B56 CD9A EE71 44FF 54EA
That is no longer the case. I could dig up the ML thread in which it was discussed, but I'm rather lazy. Can you link to the page that has that wording so it can be updated? Maintainer is the person responsible for updating the package, contributors are as Stefan said, previous maintainers (or people who have submitted updates)
Well, when my information was wrong.. please update the wiki! http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Package_Maintainer Am Sonntag, den 05.04.2009, 13:09 -0400 schrieb Daenyth Blank:
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 13:03, Jens Maucher <jensmaucher@online.de> wrote:
Am Sonntag, den 05.04.2009, 18:49 +0200 schrieb Stefan Husmann:
Hello,
I think we some time ago came to the conclusion that the one who actually takes care of the package _now_ is the Maintainer, and everyone who formerly maintained the package is a contributor.
A Package Maintainer, in the context of Arch Linux, is either one of the following: *A core Arch Linux developer who maintains software packages in the official repositories (core, extra, or testing).
*A Trusted User of the community who maintains software packages in the unsupported/unofficial community repository.
A Contributor is a non-TU who maintain packages in AUR
IMHO exactly this are the meanings of the words "maintainer" and "contributor". But I may be completely wrong.
Regards Stefan
Cheers
-- Jens Maucher <jensmaucher@online.de> Gnupg: 44FF54EA Fingerprint: 0E54 F345 E7C9 0295 90F8 2B56 CD9A EE71 44FF 54EA
That is no longer the case. I could dig up the ML thread in which it was discussed, but I'm rather lazy. Can you link to the page that has that wording so it can be updated? Maintainer is the person responsible for updating the package, contributors are as Stefan said, previous maintainers (or people who have submitted updates) -- Jens Maucher <jensmaucher@online.de> Gnupg: 44FF54EA Fingerprint: 0E54 F345 E7C9 0295 90F8 2B56 CD9A EE71 44FF 54EA
On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:12:03 +0200 Jens Maucher <jensmaucher@online.de> wrote:
Well, when my information was wrong.. please update the wiki!
I've updated the page. The previous version seemed to refer only to the maintainers of binary packages present in the repos. Regards, Xyne
2009/4/5 Daenyth Blank <daenyth+arch@gmail.com>:
That is no longer the case. I could dig up the ML thread in which it was discussed, but I'm rather lazy. Can you link to the page that has that wording so it can be updated? Maintainer is the person responsible for updating the package, contributors are as Stefan said, previous maintainers (or people who have submitted updates)
I didn't know about this... namcap -i still shows 'Maintainer tags for TUs and devs only.' Could you provide a link to the ML thread where this was discussed? I've no preferences either way, but atleast if it was decided that the definition has changed, then it should be reflected in the wiki and namcap. -- Abhishek
Abhishek Dasgupta schrieb:
2009/4/5 Daenyth Blank <daenyth+arch@gmail.com>:
That is no longer the case. I could dig up the ML thread in which it was discussed, but I'm rather lazy. Can you link to the page that has that wording so it can be updated? Maintainer is the person responsible for updating the package, contributors are as Stefan said, previous maintainers (or people who have submitted updates)
I didn't know about this... namcap -i still shows 'Maintainer tags for TUs and devs only.'
Could you provide a link to the ML thread where this was discussed? I've no preferences either way, but atleast if it was decided that the definition has changed, then it should be reflected in the wiki and namcap.
I think it was discussed in October 2008 in concern with the applicance of foutrelis. The Thrread is named "[aur-general] Where to put your name when you adopt an AUR package (was: TU Application) " Regards Stefan
Jaroslav Lichtblau wrote:
Hi, I went through your packages and found out many of them have been previously created and mainained by someone else. I would like to see some of your own contributions, could you maybe point them out?
microblog-purple and linuxdcpp-plus-odc are my own contributions and the *-ubuntu package which i adopt them some time ago when somebody was deleteing orphan packages. Those are my primary contributions and i update them regulary.
I see in some of your packages the 1st line like: "# $Id: PKGBUILD,..." which comes in PKGBUILDs moved to AUR from the repos, but actually should not be there. You may remove this. I'm also not sure about the actual status of the #Maintainer/#Contributor lines. Maybe some other TU knows, if Maintainer is now allowed in AUR PKGBUILDs.
This is confusion for me, like is confusion from you also. I didn't know that Maintainer field is only for devs and TU or the Maintainer is the person who actually own it. I will wait a bit more to clarify this thing before doing any modification. That Maintainer field is there because i was using the build from extra as a starting point.
I'm wondering if you are talking about any particular projects you want to help with or start, in your last paragraph?
I was looking in pacman source tree and i've try to improve some behavior in pacman. For example when a group is in testing and extra/core also pacman asks you two times. This is my first contribution that i want to make into pacman. Also to answer in this mail for all the previous mails: Stefan and Abhishek i'll fix those issue right now. About namcap i forgot totally about that.
Cheers Jaroslav
-- Ionut
Hi, 2009/4/5 Biru Ionut <biru.ionut@gmail.com>:
Hi, My name is Biru Ionut Mircea and i'm addicted to archlinux. :)
I'm a 23 year old student from Romania, studying at University Politehnica of Bucharest, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer, Computer Science department.
I'm using linux for more than 6 years, using different distributions before i discovered archlinux 3 years ago and in this time i can say that i know almost everything about archlinux.
Mainly my contribution to archlinux community was on the forum, bug tracker and aur(username wonder), where i maintain 14 packages [1]. I helped on bug day on 21 march and for my work i got credit from allan and hdoria which i want to thank for that.
I want to became a TU because i've noticed that important people in our community are resigning and my favorites packages aren't been updated because of lack of free time. I just want to do something so that our community to enjoy packages up to date.
In the future I want to help more in archlinux projects and maybe i will start other projects that the archlinux community could use. Also i want to inform that i don't intend to move in community any of *-ubuntu package
My sponsor is Hugo Doria. Thank you.
A suggestion: do run namcap on all your PKGBUILDs and package files; for example the gfxboot PKGBUILD installs files to /usr/man when it should be installing to /usr/share/man according to FHS guidelines. If you run namcap with the -i option then it prints out informational messages as well (like recommending $srcdir and $pkgdir). -- Abhishek
participants (18)
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Abhishek Dasgupta
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Allan McRae
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Alper KANAT
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Andrea Scarpino
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Andrei Thorp
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Arkham
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Biru Ionut
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Chris Brannon
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Daenyth Blank
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Daniel J Griffiths
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Eric Bélanger
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Evangelos Foutras
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Hugo Doria
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Jaroslav Lichtblau
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Jens Maucher
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Kessia 'even' Pinheiro
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Stefan Husmann
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xyne