[aur-general] How do I

[Nathan O]

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Nathan O <ndowens.aur at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Nathan O <ndowens.aur at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Am Sun, 5 Sep 2010 02:52:55 -0500
> >>> schrieb Nathan O <ndowens.aur at gmail.com>:
> >>>
> >>> > At this time, I am going through the
> >>> > ophaned packages and updating them to the latest versions and
> >>> > adopting packages(in my opinion this helps AUR out).
> >>>
> >>> And this is why I don't think you should become a TU. Your deletion
> >>> mania was a bit too big. You asked for package deletion obviously
> >>> without reading the PKGBUILDs and other files in the packages and
> >>> without comparing packages enough.
> >>>
> >>> If you send a removal request to the mailing list as a normal user
> >>> then a TU can first make sure if a package can indeed be removed, but
> >>> if you were a TU then you could remove those packages by yourself
> >>> without asking another TU first.
> >>>
> >>> So I don't think you should be a TU until you proof that you learned
> >>> reading PKGBUILDs and that you deal with packages not owned by yourself
> >>> trustworthily. I don't see this, yet.
> >>>
> >>> And I don't want my packages be removed from AUR just because you think
> >>> they can be removed because of a pointless reason. See again your
> >>> removal request for alevt and alevt-dvb. Packages are not the same just
> >>> because a part of the package names is identical.
> >>>
> >>> Heiko
> >>>
> >> I can understand your concern about deletion and I will work on that
> area.
> >>
> > Also I already knew that I wasn't ready to apply for a TU posistion yet.
> I
> > mainly meant by sponsor as more as somebody that I could go to, to see if
> I
> > did something correct or whatever. So don't concider my question as an
> > application, atleast just yet :)
> >
> > I have two questions:
> >
> >   1. Is it bad to adopt many packages to update them since they are
> > orphaned(since somebody didn't want the package(s) anymore), if so why?
>
> I don't see anything wrong with that, as long as you commit yourself
> to maintain them in a timely fashion.
>
> >
>
> Cheers!
>

If I see an out-of-date notification, I check and make sure it is out dated
and if so, then I update it right then.