[aur-general] AUR activity log?

[Giancarlo Razzolini]

Em 12-08-2015 14:21, Justin Dray escreveu:
> But by 'hidden' it also deletes all comments and votes, and stops
> people being able to search for the package, see that it isn't
> maintained and picking it up.

Well, the TU could have waited, I give you that.

> Almost all of my packages have become mine by trying to install
> something, finding it useful, and when it became an orphan, just
> taking it over and fixing it up.

This is how I ended up maintaining quite a few packages. But I didn't
waited for them to become orphan, in most cases.

>
> If we wanted to delete packages we would have asked for deletion, not
> orphaned it. What is the point of orphaning packages if they are just
> going to get deleted anyway?

Now this is were I fail to see the point. If you still wanted/needed the
package, why orphan it? I'm perfectly happy with the way AUR works
today. But, if you guys really want orphaned packages to stay around for
some time, I suggest you guys implement it and send a diff. Perhaps
something that prevents even a TU from deleting (hiding) a orphaned
package that isn't orphan long enough, lets say, a couple of months.

Cheers,
Giancarlo Razzolini