[aur-general] Courtesy when moving packages to community

[w9ya]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Alessio Bolognino <themolok.ml at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon 2008-11-10 07:07, w9ya wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>
> wrote:
> > > Hi TUs,
> > >
> > > Following this post on the forums (
> > > http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=447186), I would like to
> remind
> > > people that it is good etiquette to let the maintainer of a package in
> the
> > > AUR know when you are moving their package to [community].  Either a
> direct
> > > email, or a nice thank you for their work as an AUR comment.
> >
> > OR..... Be polite and ASK them if it is alright to do so.
>
> IMHO there is no need to *ask* users the permission to move a package in
> [community]; users already know "their" packages can be moved in
> an official repo, it seems to me only a waste of time (but I agree is a
> good etiquette to notify the user).
>
> Moreover, I wonder what would you do if a user denied the permission to
> move a package in an official repo...
>
> P.s.
> Please don't top-post
>
> --
> Alessio (molok) Bolognino


Well, good point. I was brief and perhaps too much so above.

Basically on my initlal contact I would ask them if there was any reason
they did NOT want the package moved into community (by me).

Bob Finch
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