[arch-general] Efficiency of devs/TUs

[Evangelos Foutras]

On 10/01/2010 11:28 πμ, Ionut Biru wrote:
> On 01/10/2010 09:34 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
>> I just did my -Syu and saw pidgin had been version-bumped to 2.6.5.
>>
>> Since my connection is dog-slow, I browsed to pidgin.im while waiting
>> for the download to finish (I like to check change-logs). Lo and behold,
>> the version advertised on Pidgin's official website was 2.6.4!
>>
>> Of course, the sourceforge was at 2.6.5. Which has just been uploaded
>> today, 10th January. Now THAT'S what I call efficiency.
>>
>> Thanks guys. The PKGBUILD indicates Biru Ionut as the specific
>> maintainer, but thanks to all the rest as well =).
>>
>
> This is because of our out of date feature. :D In the morning i've seen
> the notification and surprise, foutrelis marked it(which is a TU).

And I, in turn, noticed the new version thanks to distrowatch.com 
(Latest Packages on the left sidebar). :P

The speed with which the out-of-date notification was acted upon is 
still impressive though. :)