[aur-general] Can't adopt mysql-gui-tools

[Ali H. Caliskan]

Thanks for you clarification. What I mean is that I think TUs shouldn't
leave any orphaned backages at all. I've read TU specifications, and that's
why I'm trying my best way to serve the purpose of becoming TU.

Kind regards,
Ali

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Andrei Thorp <garoth at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not entirely sure what you mean -- there are 22 community packages
> that have been orphaned. That's not a tremendous amount. Are these the
> packages you meant, or are you counting all orphaned packages on AUR?
> There are 1286 of those, but they aren't the responsibilty of the TUs
> to maintain unless they want to.
>
> (Just to clarify.)
>
> Regardless, I'm sure it wouldn't hurt Arch if you attempted to become
> a TU. I'm not one, but I recommend that you read the information about
> how to become one if you haven't:
>
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TU_Person_Specification
> http://dev.archlinux.org/~simo/TUbylaws.html<http://dev.archlinux.org/%7Esimo/TUbylaws.html>(read section on TU
> Addition at least)
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Andrei 'Garoth' Thorp
>
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Ali H. Caliskan
> <ali.h.caliskan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Apparently there must be a shortage of TUs, since there are several
> orphaned
> > packages in AUR. I'm thinking of becoming a TU but I have only used Arch
> > Linux for two months.
> >
> > Ali
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Smartboy <smartboyathome at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Ali H. Caliskan
> >> <ali.h.caliskan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I can't adopt the orphaned mysql-gui-tools package.
> >> > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9126
> >> >
> >> > ali
> >> >
> >>
> >> That is because it is a community package (not an unsupported one).
> >> Perhaps one of the TUs can move it to unsupported.
> >>
> >> Smartboy
> >>
> >
>