[aur-general] Idea for AUR improvement

[Marcin 'sirmacik' Karpezo]

Sorry for top-posting and such a long response time, but I had pretty
rough time and I needed few hours of sleep to get operational again. [;

Thanks for this awesome feedback. I'm really impressed and thankful for
what the original idea turned out to be here.

Such list of packages "I've maintained/contributed to" will completely
be a good solution for a problem described by me and others mentioned
here. I also don't remember all the packages I've maintained and if I
hadn't had old backup on my github I'd ave no way to remember.

If it's not too big trouble to implement it, I'd love to see such list
in AUR.

Thanks guys!
Marcin

W dniu 02.06.2012 17:21, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera pisze:
> On 2012-06-02 11:55, Xyne wrote:
>> Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote:
>>
>>> I think a list of "packages I've contributed to" (similar to "my
>>> packages", but also includes packages you've orphaned) in AUR would
>>> solve this, and be helpful for other stuff.
>>>
>>> If a user leaves Arch for some reason, and comes back, IF he's
>>> intereseted in re-adopted his orphaned packages, he'll just see that
>>> list, and adopt them.
>>>
>>> Currently, it's pretty hard to know what packages you've contributed to
>>> in the past, and it is something nice to have.
>>
>> That poses two problems already raised in this thread:
>>
>> 1) privacy issues: not everyone will want to be permanently associated with
>>    packages
> 
> That's why I said "package *I*'ve contributed to"; each user can only
> see him own contributions.
> 
>>
>> 2) backend complexity: each package would have to store a list of contributors
>>    in the database
> 
> It's not really that complex.  You'd need a new table
> ("former-maintainer"?) for mapping users<->packages.
> 
>>
>> 1 would not actually be a list of contributors, only a list of current and
>> former maintainers, as those who contribute via comments will not be tracked in
>> this way. It thus defeats the goal of giving credit, but it would still work to
>> track previous maintainers.
>>
> 
> Yes, the list would actually be "packages I've maintained".
> 
>>
>> I lean towards the privacy argument on this and would prefer that we don't
>> track every maintainer, but I don't see it as a big deal.
>>
>> I also think that tracking the last maintainer would be much more useful than
>> the submitter. Currently someone could easily adopt orphaned packakges, insert
>> malicious code and then orphan them again. A last-maintainer field would enable
>> use to determine who did that and deal with it.
>>
> 
> Yes, that's exactly the point.  I've maintained packages in the past,
> and I'm curious as to what happened to them.  Since I actually adopted
> them (not submited), I've no way of easily listing them.
> 
> 
>>
>> Now, switching submitter for last maintainer might be easy enough to do on
>> the backend.
> 
> Yes, it makes much more sense; the last maintainer is way more relevant
> than the submitter.  Complete rewrites are not uncommon, and the
> submiter is irrelevant in those cases.
> 

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