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

[Daenyth Blank]

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 09:19, Chris Brannon <cmbrannon at cox.net> wrote:
> When applying, point out the work that *you* have done.
> Mention those packages that you contributed, I.E., those
> that aren't adopted.  If you put some serious effort into an adopted package,
> mention that as well.
> What have you done that makes you proud?  Tell us about it.
>
> -- Chris

+1

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 09:25, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> I am going to be fairly blunt here, but essentially you are wrong....
>
> <snip>
>
> As Jens pointed out, he no longer maintains this.  But at this point, that
> is moot.  He maintained it when he applied and the TUs did not know him very
> well in general so we needed to rely on his packaging skill to judge his
> application.  The consensus opinion of the TUs was obviously that his
> package standards were not high enough and I have no doubt that this package
> was primarily to blame.
>
> So, for future reference, here is my subjectiveview of what should have
> happened after this package was pointed out as bad:
> 1) a reply to aur-general saying "I will look into it".  If it was fixable,
> good.  If not then...
> 2) a reply saying, "This is very difficult to fix.  I am discussing this
> with my sponsor.  Any suggestions on how to improve it?".
> 3) possibly delaying of voting until it is shown that the issue is fixed.
>
> I see the ability to know when you have a bad PKGBUILD or other problem and
> then asking for help to be far more important than the ability to produce
> perfect packages.  Remember, once someone is a TU, they will be providing
> the community with binary packages.  It is essential that the Trusted Users
> ensure any new applicant is up to standard.  Any doubt is enough to say no.
>
> Allan
>

+1