[aur-general] TU appliance Jens Maucher (defcon)

[Allan McRae]

Daniel J Griffiths wrote:
> Daenyth Blank wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 19:40, Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  
>>> On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 10:08:50PM +0200, Stefan Husmann wrote:
>>>    
>>>>  the voting period for Defcon has ended, and he did not get the 
>>>> majority of
>>>>  votes. He got four times "yes", eleven times "no" and four abstains.
>>>>
>>>>  So, that is democracy, but it would be nice if there would be some
>>>>  discussion about the reasons for the failure.
>>>>       
>>> I suspect that the Trusted Users in general don't really know defcon
>>> that well, so they were reluctant to appoint him.
>>>
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> In addition to this, the PKGBUILDs he maintained were generally of
>> pretty low quality, at least from my perspective.
>>
>>   
> Took the words right outta my mouth.

I'd say this is almost entirely due to the zatoo package.  It had 
sim-links to libraries due to soname differences making the binary blob 
fail.  That is really bad...  Given Jens was not well known to the TUs, 
I think this one bad package was enough for no votes.

Allan