[arch-general] How do AUR packages get new maintainers?

[Stefan Erik Wilkens]

Hello again David,

If you're motivated and willing to learn, you can always give it a
try! A fair amount of the packages in the AUR are fairly simple to
maintain (version bumping, applying a simple patch etc.) and most
related questions have already been asked, debated and answered on the
forums.

It is up to you to decide if you are capable, or willing to try and
become capable, of maintaining a package.

In short: it is good to ask, but a certain amount of "just doing"
combined with some common sense is definitely part of it :) Experiment
locally! Consider it a wiki; if people don't agree or feel a
maintainer is slacking behind -> they'll fix it themselves.

2010/9/22 David C. Rankin <drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com>:
> On 09/21/2010 03:57 PM, Stefan Erik Wilkens wrote:
>> Hello David,
>>
>> If you're logged in to the AUR, any package with an orphan status will
>> have an "Adopt Packages" button on its page.
>
> Yep, I've seen that button, but I'm not sure anybody wants a lawyer maintain any
> package :p I see some that I'm pretty sure I could do (RPM, yum, etc), but I am
> no wizard with PKGBUILDs or solving problems when sources won't build due to
> compiler changes, etc.. So rather than creating frustrations for everyone, I
> thought I would raise the orphan issue to see how to handle it.
>
> If there is somewhere to turn for help when I run into build issues I can't
> solve, then I wouldn't mind picking up a couple of packages so they can be kept
> current. What nobody needs when trying to help is to be lambasted for not being
> able to solve those types of problems -- I sure don't need it.
>
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