[aur-general] Proposal: package's votes

[stefan-husmann at t-online.de]

-----Original Message-----
> Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:16:26 +0100
> Subject: Re: [aur-general] Proposal: package's votes
> From: Evangelos Foutras 
> To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)"
> 

> Vitaliy Berdinskikh wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I propose to make package's votes equal zero after update. All users
> > vote when they update package. Maintainer has true statistic about
> > package usage.
> > 
> > Whan do you think about?
> > 
> 
> I don't believe that this is a good idea. People's votes go towards a
> package and not a specific version of it. I highly doubt that anyone
> (myself included) would bother to vote after each package upgrade.
> 
Hello,

I agree with Evangelos. People should and do vote if they want a package
to go to or to stay in [community]. This decision is not version number
specific. They simply would not vote again.

Regards Stefan