[aur-general] aur-general Digest, Vol 70, Issue 13

[Evangelos Foutras]

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Stijn Segers <gotleenucks at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't mind seeing packages moved into [community], much to the contrary. But as Xyne said,
> communication would be nice. If some TU were to ask me 'can I adopt this package and put it in
> [community]', why would I say no? Why would anyone, for that matter? :-)

What's the point of asking then? To waste everyone's time? : D

> I'd just like to be noticed before, and not after. Of course it's not a democracy, but
> communication isn't a synonym of democracy ;-).

I think leaving a comment on the package's page before "stealing" it
is enough. The maintainer should get notified via e-mail if he has
enabled notifications for that package (which for new packages is
enabled by default).