[aur-general] Trusted user application: Drew DeVault

Brett Cornwall brett at i--b.com
Wed Feb 27 06:37:35 UTC 2019


On 2019-02-27 02:09, alad via aur-general wrote:
>Considering some recent issues regarding team behavior [1] in Arch, I'm
>going to have to ask on some of your previous interactions with the
>community, and open-source in general. I had two examples in particular,
>the MineTest community [2], and interaction with other Arch users on
>ArchWiki [3].
>
>[1]
>https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2018-October/034461.html
>[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18156980
>[3]
>https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=XDG_Base_Directory&diff=prev&oldid=391411
>
>By definition, a TU has to interact with users of community packages
>(bug reports, emails, coordination with the rest of the Arch team, ...),
>and users of the AUR in general (AUR requests, peace-keeping,
>interactions with previous maintainers when promoting packages, ...).
>This means that if aggressive behavior such as the above is part of some
>general theme, there is a clear problematic.
>
>Note that this is _not_ meant as a witch-hunt of any sort - nor do I
>have any kind of personal involvement here. I do however value healthy
>communication in the Arch community, and believe any TU candidate should
>value it as well.


I would also chip in with the following from early 2017:

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/1227


(I am also not in any sort of witch hunt, just thought this would be relevant.)
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