[aur-general] TUs adopting packages from the AUR

[Ionuț Bîru]

On 08/14/2010 08:22 PM, Xyne wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:43:37 +0300
> Ionuț Bîru wrote:
>
>> On 08/14/2010 02:38 PM, Stijn Segers wrote:
>>> Guys,
>>>
>>> When I saw this discussion about sage-mathematics I was just wondering what is customary when a TU
>>> wants to adopt packages that are not his and are maintained by someone in the AUR.
>>>
>>> I had a couple of those (remmina-plugins and freerdp) and from one day to another my packages were
>>> 'gone' from AUR. Only after that some TU sent me a message that he had taken my packages. There was
>>> nothing in the AUR ML about moving it.
>>>
>>> Is this how this is usually done? I know developers aren't great communicators, but it sure struck
>>> me as impolite, rude even.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>> yes. this is how we handle it. eventually we have to do that since you
>> or any other contributors can't commit to community and we want all our
>> users to easy access their favorite applications.
>>
>
> Is that really how we're supposed to handle it?
>
> In my opinion, a TU should contact the current maintainer in advance to
> discuss moving a package to [community]. Simply taking the package is
> indeed impolite, regardless of the number of votes.
>

if you read his email, you'll see that an email was sent.

if the current maintainer doesn't want to be moved, you think that is a 
democracy? :D

is not


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Ionuț