[aur-general] Please delete ttf-ms-extrafonts

[Thomas S Hatch]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Joel Heaton <jheaton at archlinux.us> wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 11:04 -0700, Thomas S Hatch wrote:
> > 2011/1/13 Christoph <chrdr at gmx.at>
> > > > Indeed!
> > > >
> > > > Even more OT, wouldn't it be kinda cool if there was a mailing list
> or
> > > > something where people could post simply with news of new packages? I
> > > can't
> > > > imagine it would be very high traffic, but it would be interesting to
> > > read
> > > > in order to try new software out.
> > >
> > > "AUR Home" tells me:
> > > Packages added or updated in the past 7 days:   2804
> > >
> > > This makes an average of 400 per day, 16 per hour...
> > > In my opinion that's too many...
> > >
> > > Cheers, Christoph
> > >
> > >
> > I thought that the community contributions was the place to post about
> new
> > packages, thats where I put info about things like varch and libguestfs,
> but
> > I agree, some sort of pipe to talk about the new packages would be a nice
> > thing to have, while I recognize the scope of adoptions and package
> updates
> > I still think it is worth consideration.
> >
> > -Tom Hatch
>
> I agree. Furthermore, I don't think everyone who updates or releases a
> package would make an announcement, so whilst it may be there are 16
> submissions per-hour to the AUR, it's very unlikely that there would be
> 16 announcements per-hour on a mailing list created for the purpose of
> making such announcements.
>
> Of course, I'm not really in a position to say whether or not the
> potential level of traffic is too great, but I would like to see such a
> list implemented if it were at all possible.
>
> Regards,
>
> Joel.
>
>
One of my greatest professional advantages is found in software awareness,
knowing what is out there and what I can leverage, I agree with Joel that it
would be highly advantageous to the community  to have a place to post this
sort of stuff. If anything else presenting it as an experiment, I think, is
worth consideration.

-Tom