[aur-general] TUs adopting packages from the AUR

[Simon Stoakley]

On 14/08/10 21:06, Stefan Husmann wrote:
> Am 14.08.2010 20:13, schrieb Loui Chang:
>> On Sat 14 Aug 2010 19:22 +0200, 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.
>>>
>>> Beside, the threshold (which I thought we had raised to 25 votes) is
>>> just a guideline. It's not as though a package must be moved
>>> immediately as soon as it has the minimum number of votes. Some packages
>>> even end up with several times the minimum number yet remain in the AUR
>>> indefinitely (which is a good thing, as an active and interested AUR
>>> maintainer is better than a disinterested TU).
>>
>> The rule is that a package in unsupported must have at least 10 votes
>> before being moved into community without discussion.
>>
>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines#Rules_for_Packages_Entering_the_.5Bcommunity.5D_Repo
>>
>> There was a big 'so-called' debate about this awhile ago that resulted
>> in one TU quitting.
>>
>>
>
> But there nothing is said about contacting the current maintainer of an
> AUR package. Maybe we should add that.
>
> Regards Stefan
>
>


-- 
For what it's worth i think that this should be added, one of my pkgs 
was added to [community] recently without an email or any disscusion on 
the ML. An email is just common courtesy really.