[aur-general] Package promotion process

[Dave Reisner]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 11:29:45AM -0600, Troy Engel wrote:
> When a package has hundreds of votes, what keeps it from getting
> promoted into Community? I'm talking specifically about cower:
> 
>   https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cower/
> 
> Bootstrapping AUR on fresh installs is manual, what's the reason cower
> hasn't been promoted to Community so it's easy to install with pacman
> and have AUR usable out-of-the-box? (apologies if this has been
> discussed before and I'm opening some sort of hornet's nest)
> 
> -te

Fun fact, cower *was* in [community] for a very short period of time:

https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2010-December/018893.html

It shall never return.