[arch-general] Newbies in Arch [WAS: Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver]

[Jonathan Vasquez]

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 05/01/12 07:14, Jonathan Vasquez wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Karol Blazewicz
>> <karol.blazewicz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Jonathan Vasquez
>>> <jvasquez1011 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> That's how democracy works. By listening to it's citizens.
>>>> Same goes with the AUR, and when people vote for packages
>>>> for inclusion into the community repo
>>>
>>> Errr, no. It's still up to devs and TUs to include a package in the repos.
>>> Also https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Forum_Etiquette#Respect_The_Staff
>>> Members of The Forum Team have been chosen for their ability to
>>> exercise consistently good judgment and shall have the final say. Note
>>> that this forum is not run as a democracy.
>>
>> Never said the entire community was a democracy, I did say thought
>> that like a democracy people vote for the packages to be included.
>> You are right, that the Trusted Users have the final say on what
>> packages get included, I never said otherwise. We obviously can't let
>> everyone in the community have read/write access to the community
>> repo,
>> but the packages that the community members voted for in the AUR, are
>> being looked at by the Trusted Users. That's not a problem to me, and
>> if anything is a sign of a Representative Democracy. In the AUR aspect
>> specifically.
>>
>
> Are you sure TUs pay attention to votes (apart from the minimum required
> number)?  I always just pulled the packages I wanted...
>

No I'm not sure, but from I've read, I remember it saying that the
packages that the community votes for, are considered for inclusion in
the community repo.


-- 
Jonathan Vasquez