[aur-general] TU application, sponsored by Lukas Fleischer

[Doug Newgard]

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> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 19:53:19 +0100
> From: arch at carsten-teibes.de
> To: aur-general at archlinux.org
> Subject: Re: [aur-general] TU application, sponsored by Lukas Fleischer
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> Am 22.01.2014 23:56, schrieb Balló György:
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>>2014/1/22 Xyne <xyne at archlinux.ca>:
>>> I don't want to discourage you from further contribution but I do not think
>>> that you are ready to be a TU. You should take some time to address the issues
>>> raised in this thread and then spend at least a few more months maintaining
>>> your packages. Orphan some if you cannot adequately manage all of them. Quality
>>> counts for far more than quantity.
> [...]
>> I agree with Xyne. You have to learn some more things and clean up
>> your packages before you are ready.
> [...]
>
> I think onny *can* be a good TU as well, as long as he learns from the
> problems that have been pointed out. He will likely learn from the
> others as well and get better in time.
[...]

And if that is the case, fine. But let's again take a look at the example he
held up, gitlab. The package was updated two days ago, addressed none of the
concerns I and other commenters raised. His response is: "Sorry but I don't have
the time now to look at all your changes. I'll do that later." Nothing yet, not
to mention that it wouldn't even build at the time he uploaded it because of a
bad checksum.

And this isn't the first time, he adopted some other packages I orphaned but kept
an eye on. It took people emailing him directly to get him to update a package
that had been marked out of date for a month.

Maybe it is just a matter of not enough time, but does that really change
anything?