[aur-general] Resigning as a TU

[Allan McRae]

Daniel J Griffiths wrote:
> 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.

There are comments in the AUR about gnome-mplayer (adding nautilaus 
plugin or something...) and qt-recordmydesktop (we site moved) that you 
may want to look at.

Allan