[aur-general] Community and the AUR (Was: Vote - Moving [community] to use same system as main repos)

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sat Jan 24 04:13:50 EST 2009


stefan-husmann at t-online.de wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
>   
>> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:59:10 +0100
>> Subject: [aur-general] Community and the AUR (Was: Vote - Moving
>> [community] to use same system as main repos)
>> From: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>
>> To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)"
>> <aur-general at archlinux.org>
>>     
>
>   
>> Loui Chang wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 03:36:56PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Loui Chang wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:51:40PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> As far as the web changes go, I suggest the relevant AUR
>>>>>> developers talk to  the people who do the Arch site work and
>>>>>> sort this out.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Well it depends. Do we want [community] to remain in AUR so we
>>>>> keep votes and comments and such, or do we drop those packages
>>>>> from AUR? 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> One thing I think no-one has brought up regarding this.  The main
>>>> repos don't have package categories.  So how would the AUR handle
>>>> that? 
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I think the categories would be removed.
>>>
>>>       
>> Any other people want to comment on this?  Any TUs feel keeping AUR
>> pages for [community] packages is necessary?
>>
>> Allan
>>
>>
>>     
> Hello,
>
> I do not get bugreports, but I get AUR comments for my packages. So
> people seem to use them. I think they should be kept. Categories con be
> removed IMHO.
>
> Regards Stefan
>   

And how do you keep track of changes the comments suggest you make?  In 
the bug tracker you can just click on the My Bugs search, but with the 
AUR you need to go to each individual page. 

Allan





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