[aur-general] Proposal for the reinstatement of AUR Cleanup Day.

Thomas Dziedzic gostrc at gmail.com
Tue Jan 25 12:47:51 EST 2011


On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Thomas S Hatch <thatch45 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Bernardo Barros <bernardobarros2 at gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>>
>>> 2011/1/25 Xyne <xyne at archlinux.ca>:
>>> > If you want a better system, add deletion and orphan request buttons to
>>> the AUR
>>> > interface that send an email to this list automatically or, even better,
>>> create
>>> > a TU dashboard for the AUR where TUs can view submitted requests, along
>>> with
>>> > reasons, how long packages have been flagged out-of-date, whether the
>>> > maintainer has been emailed, etc. Packages could be automatically added
>>> to the
>>> > dashboard for consideration when certain conditions are met, e.g. no
>>> updates or
>>> > downloads in over a year.
>>>
>>> Very good suggestions.
>>>
>>
>> I am going to go with Xyne, raising the level of awareness will aid in our
>> ability to keep the AUR clean.
>>
>> I would also ask, is there a way to generate a list of packages that have
>> been flaged out of date for more than n days?
>>
>
> So this boils down to add features, not clean up days. Got it.
> This is why I posted asking for opinions rather then going straight to
> announcements :)
> I guess there wont be a bug day because of the reasons discussed.
>
> Cheers!
>

s/bug/aur cleanup/


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