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

[Myra Nelson]

2010/9/23 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com>
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> On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 22:41 -0500, Myra Nelson wrote:
> >
> > One would hope this is enough to end the BS, it's getting tiring.
> >
> > Myra Nelson
>
> Did you just compare the service of highly-paid lawyers and doctors with
> voluntary time on the Arch ML? =)
>
> My observation is that most of the responses so far are based on the
> poster's history rather than the particular question asked, rightly or
> wrongly.
>

No, I was comparing the expertise. I consider this list to be populated with
individuals with a lot of expertise in the field of programming. That is what
makes it worth reading daily. Also the wiki is excellent and being improved all
the time. I mention the wiki due to the tremendous improvement in that area
over the last 3 or 4 years. In the past I've had wiki pages I had to study for
several hours and work through more than two or three times to get it right.

However, after 10 knock downs, I think it gets a little long winded and tiresome
to keep at it. Eventually it serves no purpose and in some cases leads to
extraneous side tracks (ie wiki pages removed most recently) that don't serve
the overall discussion; IMHO.

My other point was, it might be simpler to point out where this information can
be found without the "really dudes's" and "who are you's" etc. Part of
the problem,
from both sides is a culture clash, one that's hard to reconcile and
too long to debate
here and now.

My view comes from having the opinion that if I training you to do
something and I
have to tell you more than twice how to do it, I don't need you. Somewhere along
the line I discovered not all people could grasp what I said the way I
said it. I knew
what I was doing and how it should be done, training logging engineers
in the oilfield,
and just couldn't understand why no one could get it. It's friggin easy.

Might it be worthwhile to link to ESR's "How to ask questions the
smart way" or link to it in a
wiki page.

At some point the discussions seem to become "bikeshed".

I would like to thank you for the courteous reply.

Myra


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