[aur-general] Idea for AUR improvement

[Cédric Girard]

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Xyne <xyne at archlinux.ca> wrote:

> Now that the request is clear, I will say that I don't think this should be
> done on the AUR itself. As already mentioned, there are not many users who
> drop everything in the AUR and then come back (even if "they always come
> back").
>

I don't think you should only focus on that particular use case. There may
be other problems that could be solved by a more generic approach.

What I'm thinking about is having a "last maintainer" field that would be
displayed and searchable for orphans packages. It would not only allow to
easily find all packages that were belonging to a specific user but would
also give an easy way to reach the last maintainer of an orphan package to
get extra informations before adopting it.

This is just a random thought and may be pointless... What is your opinion
on this?

-- 
Cédric Girard