[aur-general] Please delete ttf-ms-extrafonts
Hi everyone, Can someone please delete ttf-ms-extrafonts [1]; it has no maintainer and as mutlu_inek said in the comments his ttf-vista-fonts [2] provides the same fonts and has a more liberal license. Regards, Marcel [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35297 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10408
Am 13.01.2011 16:00, schrieb Marcel Korpel:
Hi everyone,
Can someone please delete ttf-ms-extrafonts [1]; it has no maintainer and as mutlu_inek said in the comments his ttf-vista-fonts [2] provides the same fonts and has a more liberal license.
Regards, Marcel
[1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35297 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10408
Done, thank you.
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 16:57 +0100, Stefan Husmann wrote:
Am 13.01.2011 16:00, schrieb Marcel Korpel:
Hi everyone,
Can someone please delete ttf-ms-extrafonts [1]; it has no maintainer and as mutlu_inek said in the comments his ttf-vista-fonts [2] provides the same fonts and has a more liberal license.
Regards, Marcel
[1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35297 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10408
Done, thank you.
Slight OT, thanks for pointing out this package, I now have more font compatibility than previously =)
On Thursday 13 January 2011 17:01:42 Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 16:57 +0100, Stefan Husmann wrote:
Am 13.01.2011 16:00, schrieb Marcel Korpel:
Hi everyone,
Can someone please delete ttf-ms-extrafonts [1]; it has no maintainer and as mutlu_inek said in the comments his ttf-vista-fonts [2] provides the same fonts and has a more liberal license.
Regards, Marcel
[1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35297 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10408
Done, thank you.
Slight OT, thanks for pointing out this package, I now have more font compatibility than previously =)
Indeed! Even more OT, wouldn't it be kinda cool if there was a mailing list or something where people could post simply with news of new packages? I can't imagine it would be very high traffic, but it would be interesting to read in order to try new software out. Pete.
Am Donnerstag, 13. Januar 2011, 18:21:41 schrieb Peter Lewis:
On Thursday 13 January 2011 17:01:42 Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 16:57 +0100, Stefan Husmann wrote:
Am 13.01.2011 16:00, schrieb Marcel Korpel:
Hi everyone,
Can someone please delete ttf-ms-extrafonts [1]; it has no maintainer and as mutlu_inek said in the comments his ttf-vista-fonts [2] provides the same fonts and has a more liberal license.
Regards, Marcel
[1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35297 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10408
Done, thank you.
Slight OT, thanks for pointing out this package, I now have more font compatibility than previously =)
Indeed!
Even more OT, wouldn't it be kinda cool if there was a mailing list or something where people could post simply with news of new packages? I can't imagine it would be very high traffic, but it would be interesting to read in order to try new software out.
"AUR Home" tells me: Packages added or updated in the past 7 days: 2804 This makes an average of 400 per day, 16 per hour... In my opinion that's too many... Cheers, Christoph
2011/1/13 Christoph
On Thursday 13 January 2011 17:01:42 Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 16:57 +0100, Stefan Husmann wrote:
Am 13.01.2011 16:00, schrieb Marcel Korpel:
Hi everyone,
Can someone please delete ttf-ms-extrafonts [1]; it has no
Am Donnerstag, 13. Januar 2011, 18:21:41 schrieb Peter Lewis: maintainer
and as mutlu_inek said in the comments his ttf-vista-fonts [2] provides the same fonts and has a more liberal license.
Regards, Marcel
[1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35297 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10408
Done, thank you.
Slight OT, thanks for pointing out this package, I now have more font compatibility than previously =)
Indeed!
Even more OT, wouldn't it be kinda cool if there was a mailing list or something where people could post simply with news of new packages? I can't imagine it would be very high traffic, but it would be interesting to read in order to try new software out.
"AUR Home" tells me: Packages added or updated in the past 7 days: 2804
This makes an average of 400 per day, 16 per hour... In my opinion that's too many...
Cheers, Christoph
I thought that the community contributions was the place to post about new packages, thats where I put info about things like varch and libguestfs, but I agree, some sort of pipe to talk about the new packages would be a nice thing to have, while I recognize the scope of adoptions and package updates I still think it is worth consideration. -Tom Hatch
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 11:04 -0700, Thomas S Hatch wrote:
2011/1/13 Christoph
Indeed!
Even more OT, wouldn't it be kinda cool if there was a mailing list or something where people could post simply with news of new packages? I can't imagine it would be very high traffic, but it would be interesting to read in order to try new software out.
"AUR Home" tells me: Packages added or updated in the past 7 days: 2804
This makes an average of 400 per day, 16 per hour... In my opinion that's too many...
Cheers, Christoph
I thought that the community contributions was the place to post about new packages, thats where I put info about things like varch and libguestfs, but I agree, some sort of pipe to talk about the new packages would be a nice thing to have, while I recognize the scope of adoptions and package updates I still think it is worth consideration.
-Tom Hatch
I agree. Furthermore, I don't think everyone who updates or releases a package would make an announcement, so whilst it may be there are 16 submissions per-hour to the AUR, it's very unlikely that there would be 16 announcements per-hour on a mailing list created for the purpose of making such announcements. Of course, I'm not really in a position to say whether or not the potential level of traffic is too great, but I would like to see such a list implemented if it were at all possible. Regards, Joel.
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Joel Heaton
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 11:04 -0700, Thomas S Hatch wrote:
2011/1/13 Christoph
Indeed!
Even more OT, wouldn't it be kinda cool if there was a mailing list or something where people could post simply with news of new packages? I can't imagine it would be very high traffic, but it would be interesting to read in order to try new software out.
"AUR Home" tells me: Packages added or updated in the past 7 days: 2804
This makes an average of 400 per day, 16 per hour... In my opinion that's too many...
Cheers, Christoph
I thought that the community contributions was the place to post about new packages, thats where I put info about things like varch and libguestfs, but I agree, some sort of pipe to talk about the new packages would be a nice thing to have, while I recognize the scope of adoptions and package updates I still think it is worth consideration.
-Tom Hatch
I agree. Furthermore, I don't think everyone who updates or releases a package would make an announcement, so whilst it may be there are 16 submissions per-hour to the AUR, it's very unlikely that there would be 16 announcements per-hour on a mailing list created for the purpose of making such announcements.
Of course, I'm not really in a position to say whether or not the potential level of traffic is too great, but I would like to see such a list implemented if it were at all possible.
Regards,
Joel.
One of my greatest professional advantages is found in software awareness, knowing what is out there and what I can leverage, I agree with Joel that it would be highly advantageous to the community to have a place to post this sort of stuff. If anything else presenting it as an experiment, I think, is worth consideration. -Tom
On 13/01/11 18:00, Christoph wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 13. Januar 2011, 18:21:41 schrieb Peter Lewis:
On Thursday 13 January 2011 17:01:42 Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 16:57 +0100, Stefan Husmann wrote:
Am 13.01.2011 16:00, schrieb Marcel Korpel:
Hi everyone,
Can someone please delete ttf-ms-extrafonts [1]; it has no maintainer and as mutlu_inek said in the comments his ttf-vista-fonts [2] provides the same fonts and has a more liberal license.
Regards, Marcel
[1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35297 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10408
Done, thank you.
Slight OT, thanks for pointing out this package, I now have more font compatibility than previously =)
Indeed!
Even more OT, wouldn't it be kinda cool if there was a mailing list or something where people could post simply with news of new packages? I can't imagine it would be very high traffic, but it would be interesting to read in order to try new software out.
"AUR Home" tells me: Packages added or updated in the past 7 days: 2804
This makes an average of 400 per day, 16 per hour... In my opinion that's too many...
Please look at a seven-day period that doesn't include yesterday (Wed 12). Yours truly have had a very high impact on that number; all haskell packages were updated yesterday. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus
On Thursday 13 January 2011 18:00:12 Christoph wrote:
Slight OT, thanks for pointing out this package, I now have more font compatibility than previously =)
Indeed!
Even more OT, wouldn't it be kinda cool if there was a mailing list or something where people could post simply with news of new packages? I can't imagine it would be very high traffic, but it would be interesting to read in order to try new software out.
"AUR Home" tells me: Packages added or updated in the past 7 days: 2804
This makes an average of 400 per day, 16 per hour... In my opinion that's too many...
Well, that includes every package that's even just version bumped! I don't know, but I'd imagine that updates to existing packages make up the vast majority of the uploads to the AUR. I had in mind a list with no automation, just a place where people could post notifications about a *new* package upload, not "foo is now at version 2.3". I don't think update notifications would be at all appropriate, unless they provide significant new functionality that might make someone look anew at a piece of software. A message might look like this: Subject: AUR/ttf-vista-fonts ttf-vista fonts is a new package which provides nice new fonts included in Windows Vista. Installing this might help with font compatibility in some applications. (or something like that). Also, it should be totally optional, just a place for useful voluntary notices, really. I certainly don't think that it would be high traffic. On Thursday 13 January 2011 18:34:23 Thomas S Hatch wrote:
I agree, some sort of pipe to talk about the new packages would be a nice thing to have, while I recognize the scope of adoptions and package updates
I still think it is worth consideration.
I agree. Furthermore, I don't think everyone who updates or releases a package would make an announcement, so whilst it may be there are 16 submissions per-hour to the AUR, it's very unlikely that there would be 16 announcements per-hour on a mailing list created for the purpose of making such announcements.
Of course, I'm not really in a position to say whether or not the potential level of traffic is too great, but I would like to see such a list implemented if it were at all possible.
One of my greatest professional advantages is found in software awareness, knowing what is out there and what I can leverage, I agree with Joel that it would be highly advantageous to the community to have a place to post this sort of stuff. If anything else presenting it as an experiment, I think, is worth consideration.
Okay. Let's wait for a few more opinions - this wouldn't have to be just AUR either. New stuff in the binary repos could be included too. Pete.
2011/1/13 Peter Lewis
On Thursday 13 January 2011 18:00:12 Christoph wrote:
Slight OT, thanks for pointing out this package, I now have more font compatibility than previously =)
Indeed!
Even more OT, wouldn't it be kinda cool if there was a mailing list or something where people could post simply with news of new packages? I can't imagine it would be very high traffic, but it would be interesting to read in order to try new software out.
"AUR Home" tells me: Packages added or updated in the past 7 days: 2804
This makes an average of 400 per day, 16 per hour... In my opinion that's too many...
Well, that includes every package that's even just version bumped! I don't know, but I'd imagine that updates to existing packages make up the vast majority of the uploads to the AUR.
I had in mind a list with no automation, just a place where people could post notifications about a *new* package upload, not "foo is now at version 2.3". I don't think update notifications would be at all appropriate, unless they provide significant new functionality that might make someone look anew at a piece of software.
A message might look like this:
Subject: AUR/ttf-vista-fonts ttf-vista fonts is a new package which provides nice new fonts included in Windows Vista. Installing this might help with font compatibility in some applications.
(or something like that).
Also, it should be totally optional, just a place for useful voluntary notices, really. I certainly don't think that it would be high traffic.
On Thursday 13 January 2011 18:34:23 Thomas S Hatch wrote:
I agree, some sort of pipe to talk about the new packages would be a nice thing to have, while I recognize the scope of adoptions and package updates
I still think it is worth consideration.
I agree. Furthermore, I don't think everyone who updates or releases a package would make an announcement, so whilst it may be there are 16 submissions per-hour to the AUR, it's very unlikely that there would be 16 announcements per-hour on a mailing list created for the purpose of making such announcements.
Of course, I'm not really in a position to say whether or not the potential level of traffic is too great, but I would like to see such a list implemented if it were at all possible.
One of my greatest professional advantages is found in software awareness, knowing what is out there and what I can leverage, I agree with Joel that it would be highly advantageous to the community to have a place to post this sort of stuff. If anything else presenting it as an experiment, I think, is worth consideration.
Okay. Let's wait for a few more opinions - this wouldn't have to be just AUR either. New stuff in the binary repos could be included too.
Pete.
My vote is all for this, I think it would be a hugely advantageous place to discuss packages moving into Arch, and great place to post information about packages graduating to community. For what it is worth +1 :) -Tom Hatch
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 18:55 +0000, Peter Lewis wrote:
I had in mind a list with no automation, just a place where people could post notifications about a *new* package upload, not "foo is now at version 2.3". I don't think update notifications would be at all appropriate, unless they provide significant new functionality that might make someone look anew at a piece of software.
My own thinking was similar, but I would include announcements of adopted and repaired/updated packages as being appropriate. So if foo had been unusable for a period of time and then dropped by the maintainer, and you took over responsibility for it, then upon uploading the new package an announcement would be reasonable in my opinion. But minor version jumps, as you say, may not be so in some peoples' minds.
Okay. Let's wait for a few more opinions - this wouldn't have to be just AUR either. New stuff in the binary repos could be included too.
Pete.
That's actually something I hadn't considered, but I do like the idea of getting such announcements regarding the officially supported repositories, too. This would get my vote (if it counts for anything) for both official and AUR packages. :-) Regards, Joel.
Am Donnerstag, 13. Januar 2011, 19:55:58 schrieb Peter Lewis:
On Thursday 13 January 2011 18:00:12 Christoph wrote:
Slight OT, thanks for pointing out this package, I now have more font compatibility than previously =)
Indeed!
Even more OT, wouldn't it be kinda cool if there was a mailing list or something where people could post simply with news of new packages? I can't imagine it would be very high traffic, but it would be interesting to read in order to try new software out.
"AUR Home" tells me: Packages added or updated in the past 7 days: 2804
This makes an average of 400 per day, 16 per hour... In my opinion that's too many...
Well, that includes every package that's even just version bumped! I don't know, but I'd imagine that updates to existing packages make up the vast majority of the uploads to the AUR.
I had in mind a list with no automation, just a place where people could post notifications about a *new* package upload, not "foo is now at version 2.3". I don't think update notifications would be at all appropriate, unless they provide significant new functionality that might make someone look anew at a piece of software.
okay, then I misunderstood you. And since the list would be optional anyway, I have no objection. Should not be too difficult to implement, either: The list, and some announcements on the right places in the wiki and the forum(s) should suffice. Cheers, Christoph
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 18:55 +0000, Peter Lewis wrote:
Okay. Let's wait for a few more opinions - this wouldn't have to be just AUR either. New stuff in the binary repos could be included too.
Pete.
There ARE no new packages in the binary repos =p. From what I've seen, everything starts life in the AUR (as an alpha/beta of something). Anything that goes into the binary repos is discussed on [arch-dev-public] first.
2011/1/13 Ng Oon-Ee
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 18:55 +0000, Peter Lewis wrote:
Okay. Let's wait for a few more opinions - this wouldn't have to be just AUR either. New stuff in the binary repos could be included too.
Pete.
There ARE no new packages in the binary repos =p. From what I've seen, everything starts life in the AUR (as an alpha/beta of something). Anything that goes into the binary repos is discussed on [arch-dev-public] first.
Right everything does start in the AUR, but if a package is moving from the AUR into community, it is probably a noteworthy package, and a noteworthy event - and I want to hear about it. Also, when there is a major update to a package, I would love to hear about it. Maintaining a radar on the vast array of open source software packages is hard, but this strikes me as one of the best ways for us to be given simple news, presented by the people packaging the software. This would also make a great place for the packager to let the rest of the community know about their latest packages, and why they bothered to package them at all. -Tom Hatch
2011/1/13 Peter Lewis
On Thursday 13 January 2011 18:00:12 Christoph wrote: Okay. Let's wait for a few more opinions - this wouldn't have to be just AUR either. New stuff in the binary repos could be included too. Great idea! If traffic is not heavy, information wite succinctly, this will be really interesting!
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Christoph
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Joel Heaton
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Magnus Therning
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Thomas S Hatch