[aur-general] Official discussion period - Rules governing packages entering [community]

Grigorios Bouzakis grbzks at gmail.com
Fri Dec 5 12:50:07 EST 2008


On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What we're trying to address here is not packages getting _into_
> community, but package _rot_ (ed: I *love* the term "package rot").
> That is, it's not the volume of packages going into community that's
> the issue, it's the fact that none of them leave. A package that was
> popular a month ago may not be popular today.
> Thayer proposed adding flagging for packages that would indicate: a)
> that it doesn't follow packaging standards and b) that it is "rotting"
> or no longer useful. This would do a few things: clean up the repo,
> keep TU motivation up, and still allow us to get new-fangled packages
> in the community repo.
>

And in the same spirit, it would be wonderful if the community repository
was accessible at some point from the archlinux.org package search like
it happens with archlinux.de, i am a long time fan of.
Pierres and anyone else who have worked on have done a wonderful job.
That was part of what i meant by "being official" in my previous mails.

BTW Bardo's mail was excellent and right to the point.

Greg


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