[aur-general] AUR4 migration of orphan packages

[Jiachen Yang]

I think the new AUR4 indeed have a co-maintainer list for each package.
It is just in the package actions panel.
(Although I haven't try this feature)

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:53 AM, Ido Rosen <ido at kernel.org> wrote:

> I think some of the orphans on AUR are just maintained by multiple
> people.  The usage pattern is:
>
> Person A adopts, updates, and disowns.
> Person B some time later notices it's out of date, adopts, updates,
> disowns.
>
> It seems perfectly reasonable to have multiple people maintain a
> package over time this way.  Maybe we just need better support for
> this style of non-maintainership that isn't quite "orphaned"?  Support
> for multiple maintainers/collaborators like on GitHub repos?
> (Outright owning a package in AUR prevents anyone else from updating
> it.)
>
> I do something in between outright maintainership and this "adopt,
> update, disown" non-maintainership: I have a git repo with my AUR
> packages, and accept pull requests on GitHub -- if someone wants to
> update a package faster than I can get to it (since I only have time
> on weekends), they submit a pull request and I merge it in, test, and
> submit to AUR (which takes 2 min to verify & submit the package, vs.
> the a-priori-unknown time commitment of doing it all myself).  It
> would be nice if there were an official way to make AUR support
> collaborative maintainership like this.
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Giancarlo Razzolini
> <grazzolini at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 09-06-2015 08:17, Jesse McClure wrote:
> >>
> >> Agreed.  All the packages that no one carries over to aur4 will still be
> >> archived for some time, so if anyone*actually*  wants them in aur4, they
> >> can
> >> adopt them.  One can keep their own store of PKGBUILDs, but the aur is
> for
> >> packages that it is likely multiple users will want.  If not even*one*
> >> person
> >> wants a package enough to maintain it in the aur, then it doesn't need
> to
> >> be
> >> there.
> >
> > I have adopted some packages, created a few more, but I think that this
> > migration should serve the purpose of cleansing the database. We already
> > have orphans on aur4 and that is unacceptable. Migrate a package and then
> > orphan it is not ideal and we will end up having the same number of
> orphans
> > as we already have.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Giancarlo Razzolini
>



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