[aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

[Cilyan Olowen]

I think you should announce that on a news. A news will be translated for
each communities whereas a post in the forum will probably get ignored and
non english speaking people won't be advised a cleanup is pending.

Maybe a link should be added to the front page of AUR ?

Cilyan

2008/5/2, Allan McRae <mcrae_allan at hotmail.com>:
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> Lukáš Jirkovský wrote:
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>> But in other way, packages without arch field are usually very, very old.
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> Then they probably fall in this category of the suggest removal guidelines
>  - outdated and orphaned packages with few or no votes
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> This situation is behind my reasoning to create a list of potential
> removals first.  I think we need to be careful of removing too many
> packages, especially in our first cleanup attempt.  Just the really unneeded
> ones as a first step.  I had even considered that once the list was made,
> then I would archive all the relevant PKGBUILDs before deleting them. But it
> would be better to just not delete useful packages in the first place...
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> Cheers,
> Allan
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