[aur-general] Question about patches in [community]

[Ray Rashif]

2010/9/7 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 08:17 +0800, Ray Rashif wrote:
>> 2010/9/6 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com>:
>> > On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 10:11 -0500, Brad Fanella wrote:
>> >> 2010/9/6 Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh at lutzhaase.com>
>> >>
>> >> >  On 06.09.2010 08:42, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
>> >> > > On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 21:03 -0400, Loui Chang wrote:
>> >> > >> On Sun 05 Sep 2010 22:49 +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
>> >> > >>> Arch TUs are generally considered to be the ultimate nightmare
>> >> of any
>> >> > >>> upstream maintainer. We come in the night, nagging with patches
>> >> until
>> >> > >>> all known upstream problems are fixed.
>> >> > >>>
>> >> > >>> Do not stop trying to get your patches into upstream.
>> >> > >> Hell yeah!
>> >> > >>
>> >> > > Sven-Hendrik's post should be plastered on the wall of every TU
>> >> (and
>> >> > > Arch user, actually) =)
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Any objections to putting the quote in its entirety on the wiki
>> >> for TUs?
>> >> > >
>> >> > >
>> >> > None at all. :)
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> I was actually planning on making that my forum signature! :-P
>> >> However, that
>> >> is crucial information and needs to be included in the wiki.
>> >
>> > Done. May need polishing =)
>> >
>> > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines#The_TU.27s_mission_statement
>>
>> Sorry, but however awesome Sven is, that kind of content does not fit
>> in that page. I have slightly changed the wording of the introductory
>> paragraph for the "desired effect"; see wiki diff.
>
> Understood =). The comment is still awesome though. Would it be
> acceptable for 'communicating with and sending patches upstream as
> needed' to contain a link to the ML post?

Sure. In fact, since there are no other examples I can recall for the
sake of citation, that _was_ my intention (which somehow skipped my
keyboard).