[aur-general] Discussion period - Moving [community] to use same system as main repos

[Aaron Griffin]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> To get this moving along, I would like to start the official discussion
> period.  Standard rules, 5 days discussion, 7 days voting, 75% quorum.  If
> discussion raises some points which really need to be addressed before a
> vote then it can be delayed.
>
> Abhishek has mad a good summary with some additions by Loui at
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Community_move_to_devtools .
>
>
> I am very much in favour of this move as it will allow use to use [testing]
> for community packages, which remove the current problems we have during big
> rebuilds.  It also means that any other changes made to the repos (e.g.
> arch=any packages, delta support to name my favourites) only needs to be
> made in one place.  I also like the idea of the AUR being just unsupported
> packages and (despite not actually contributing code to the AUR) I have the
> feeling that this separation would make AUR development cleaner.
>
> Loosing the ability for users to leave comments about a package on the AUR
> is not a big deal for me as I think most of these should probably go to the
> bug tracker where they will not get lost.  The concern about autonomy of the
> TUs is difficult for me to judge being a dev too, but given ~1/3 TUs are
> devs...

Added some notes regarding what will happen on the backend of things.