[aur-general] How do I

[Nathan O]

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Nathan O <ndowens.aur at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> >> On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de>
>> wrote:
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>> >>> 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?
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>> I don't see anything wrong with that, as long as you commit yourself
>> to maintain them in a timely fashion.
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>> >
>>
>> Cheers!
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> 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.
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Thanks for not bashing me or anything, like I mentioned a little ago. I
pretty much knew that it isn't time to apply for a posistion. My thing is
that I like having more of a one-on-one "advisor" or so to speak.