[aur-general] State of community64

[Eric Belanger]

On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Chess Griffin wrote:

> Timm Preetz wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 12:06 -0500, Chess Griffin wrote:
>>> Timm Preetz wrote:
>>>> Hmm, are you interested in becoming a TU? I think that would be the most
>>>> common practise.
>>> Yes, most definitely.
>>
>> Cool. So what are you waiting for, someone to sponsor you?
>>
>>
>
> I'll work in the AUR for awhile and then seek out a sponsor.
>
> Thanks.
>
>

You can still help out with the community repo if you're not a TU.

You can check the community packages section of the bug tracker to see if 
you can't suggest/provide some fixes or patches.  Some bugs might only 
affect the x86_64 package wich make them hard to fix if the maintainer 
don't have direct access to a x86_64 box.

You can also browse the package diff list for packages that have been out 
of sync for x86_64 for a long time ( 1 month or more) or are not available 
for x86_64.  Some of them might have just been forgotten or are i686 only 
binaries but there are a few that don't build or work on x86_64. If you 
can fix them, post the fixed PKGBUILD (and patch) on the bug tracker and 
they'll be be updated/added by someone (perhaps myself).

This way you'll be able to help out with the community repo and it will 
give you an occasion to show your packaging skills when you'll apply to 
become a TU.

Eric

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