[aur-general] Removing comments from AUR

[Grigorios Bouzakis]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Grigorios Bouzakis<grbzks at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Loui Chang<louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Alright. Removing comments is not the solution, but a change in how they
>> work, how they're organised, and how users are notified about changes in
>> packages may be in order.
>>
>> Specific ideas on how that can be done are always welcome in the AUR bug
>> tracker.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>>
>
> Since i started this, even by stupidly replying to another thread, i
> might as well answer
> to that.
> My suggestion is not having comments in the AUR at all, comments arent useful to
> the users. They are only useful to the maintainer. If there is no
> maintainer, if a user feels
> the need to comment with an updated/altered script then he should
> adopt it and fix it.
> And even disown it afterwards if he feels like it.
>
> Yes this will spoil your conviniency of just leaving a comment and
> pretend you care.
> Yes this will change the way you are used to doing things.
>
> My suggestion is to remove the notify button and the comments. Add a
> box where the maintainer
> can add the notes that he feels might be useful to the users.
> Discussion regarding the way the script builds the package, bugs, etc
> should be done between
> the interested party and the maintainer.
> I dont see the need to add anything special to handle that. Like a
> "contact maintainer button".
> If the user is too lazy to follow the maintainer link and then the
> link to his email, then he shouldnt
> be motivated enough to comment either.
> If there is need for further discussion, the script is horribly
> outdated and unmaintained, should
> be done, like its done now, on the mailing list or the bbs.
>
> How's that for "KISS" ?
>

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15265

-- 
Greg