[aur-general] TU Meeting

[Ronald van Haren]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:54 AM, bardo <ilbardo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> - bardo drunk too much wine and was having difficulty spelling.
>
>> - It was proposed to add a safe flag on TUs packages in the AUR to encourage
>> TUs to leave packages out of community while still being marked in a way as
>> they are known to be good PKGBUILDs
>
> I missed this part... luckily. Safe flags were happily killed with a
> few months ago. If you mean to add them to [community] packages only,
> then it doesn't make sense to me: to make a TU you don't just need the
> User, you also need the Trust. Either you don't T the U from the
> beginning (and s/he doesn't get elected) or you T, and then you don't
> need to flag anything. If someone notices an anomaly in a TU's
> PKGBUILD quality, it should readily be reported to the list to take
> action.
>

I believe the idea was to have some automatic indicator saying that
the produced PKGBUILD was produced by a TU / Dev, and hence safe.

Ronald