[aur-general] Proposed rules for packages entering [community]

[Aaron Griffin]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 11:54:20PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
>>  Daenyth Blank wrote:
>> > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 22:27, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> As part of the TU meetings it was decided to post the proposal for
>> >> restricting packages entering [community] here for discussion before
>> >> voting.
>> >>
>> >
>> > My primary issue with the current proposal is that I feel 10 votes is
>> > slightly high for a first step. I'd *much* rather see 3-5 as a
>> > minimum, and I think others would as well.
>> >
>>
>>  89/97 packages with 0% usage on package stats have 5 votes or less.  So this
>>  would achieve a net result of nothing.
>
> How does that achieve a net result of nothing?
> If these rules were already in place it could have meant a net result
> of more than 500 less packages in community that we need to deal with.

He's saying that lowering the voting requirements to 5 votes will give
us nothing because there are a lot of crap/unused packages with 5
votes.