December 2008 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] TU Meeting
by Allan McRae 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

Hi TU's, I would like to organize a TU meeting on IRC to discuss the results of the pkgstats script and the direction for the [community] repo. I am probably the person with the worst time zone issues so I am happy to take a very late night time slot. I guess a weekend would be best to deal with the multiple time zones. So how are peoples availabilities (provide times/timezones): 15/16 November 22/23 November 29/30 November It would be good if someone (who isn't me...) sets up a temporary wiki page to handle this. Allan

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Re: [aur-general] community back-end rewrite
by Loui Chang 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 11:35:18AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Hi all, > > In the TU meetings there was some discussion about doing a > rewrite/update/fix-up of the [community] back-end. I am not sure who all is > looking at this and what the plans are - hence this email. > > Can people who are looking at this or interested in looking at this give a > ping back to this message with whatever plans you have or work you have > already done. > > Things I want to flag: > - we should get a git repo for a community-backend project on the arch > server and separate this from the aur site code. - we should switch SCM > tools from CVS. I am strongly in favour of using the same system as the > main repos which would allow much code reuse and easily get us a testing > repo for community packages. (No more big rebuild issues!). I'm involved with AUR development and have recently studied and begin to understand the tupkg code. Some improvements based on that activity will be put into action soon. I'll continue to help maintain AUR until I feel it has reached a certain point of efficiency and effectiveness where it no longer needs major maintenance. My plan from there is to start design and development on a new system that can be used for repo maintenance in AUR as well as any other package repo project, like arch-games, or even maybe official repos. These were actually some of my main goals in becoming a TU. I don't there is any benefit from putting tupkg code in a different repo than the AUR web interface. They are tied together by the DB and separating them may cause disjointed development and other problems. However we could organise the source tree and document how the system works a little better. Cheers!

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Re: [aur-general] Proposed rules for packages entering [community]
by Loui Chang 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

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!

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