[aur-general] State of community64

[Ronald van Haren]

It is really great to hear that you want to help out!
But as you mentioned you don't have any packages in the AUR. How do we know
you qualify for the job ? Did you do anything Arch related ? Do you have any
project you work on ?

Best would be to take a bunch of packages in the AUR and show that you are
capable of creating and maintaining packages.

On Jan 4, 2008 6:06 PM, Chess Griffin <chess at chessgriffin.com> wrote:

> Timm Preetz wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 09:00 -0500, Chess Griffin wrote:
> >> Although I am not a TU, I would be happy to help build these packages
> as
> >> I have an x86_64 machine.  Once I have an updated PKGBUILD and binary
> >> package, what would be the best way for me to get them to into the
> right
> >> hands?
> >>
> >
> > Hmm, are you interested in becoming a TU? I think that would be the most
> > common practise.
>
> Yes, most definitely.  As I mentioned in my earlier introductory email,
> I've been packaging for other operating systems for awhile now, but
> would like to contribute to Arch.  I have an x86_64 machine as well as
> several i686 machines.  I've been lurking here for 3-4 years and have
> been building my own packages from time to time so I'm pretty
> comfortable with the process.
>
> >
> > I'm not sure whether other TU take binary packages by mail and publish
> > them.
> >
>
> I understand.  I plan to adopt some orphaned PKGBUILDS in AUR, but in
> the meantime it seemed like there was a need and so I thought I would
> jump in and help.
>
>
> again we really appreciate that you want to help :). It is just we can't
put binary packages in community that we have not created ourselves. All
kind of bad things may happen one day if we start with that, as you may
understand.

Ronald
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