[aur-general] Resigning as a TU

Daniel J Griffiths ghost1227 at archlinux.us
Sat Apr 4 04:14:24 EDT 2009


Allan McRae wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have decided it is time for me to resign as a TU.  This has been a 
> decision that has been on my mind for a while.  I am wanting to focus 
> my efforts on what I see as core parts of Arch (primarily pacman 
> development and what I consider "core" packages).  I currently leave 
> any requests for package orphaning and deletion and AUR password 
> change requests to others and I have been relying on others to check 
> TU applicants packaging skills, so I am not doing TU stuff anyway.  I 
> will still be around to give my opinion is someone wants it.
>
> I will continue maintaining my packages in [community] (at least for 
> the time being) but I no longer use the following packages and so they 
> are up for adoption if someone wants them:
>
> axel
> barrage
> blobwars
> bmpanel
> colordiff
> critter
> curlftpfs
> dtach
> exaile (with cddb-py)
> gauplol
> gimmix (with libnxml)
> gnochm
> gnome-cup-manager
> gnome-do + gnome-do-plugins (with flickrnet + gnome-keyring-sharp-svn 
> + notify-sharp-svn)
> gnome-mplayer + gecko-mediaplayer
> gnome-sbtitles (with sublib)
> gnomebaker
> gprename
> gtk-recordmydesktop
> gtvg
> gwget
> libev
> menumaker
> mozplugger
> multiget
> mupen64plus
> ogmrip (with gpac)
> pida
> pidgin-otr
> pyenchant
> pympd
> python-pyalsaaudio
> python-sexy
> pytube (with ffmpeg2theora)
> qt-recordmydesktop
> shake
> sloccount
> solarwolf
> supertuxkart (with plib)
> tagtools
> teeworlds
> terminator
> upx
> visualboyadvance
> wbar
> winefish
> xfce4-places-plugin
> xmltv (with perl-fcgi + perl-html-tree + perl-http-cache-transparent + 
> perl-http-response-encoding + perl-lingua-en-numbers + 
> perl-lingua-en-numbers-ordinate + perl-lingua-preferred + 
> perl-soap-lite + perl-text-bidi + perl-text-kakasi + kakasi + 
> perl-unicode-utf8simple - Note all are rarely updated so this is not 
> much work...)
>
> I think any TU can disown another's packages so just go ahead and 
> adopt what you want from that list.  But stick to the list as I am 
> keeping some packages that I do still use...
>
> Allan
>
>
>
>
exaile
gnochm
gnome-mplayer + gecko-mediaplayer
gtk-recordmydesktop
qt-recordmydesktop
teeworlds
terminator
upx

all adopted. that should take a good chunk out of it.


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