[aur-general] Trusted user application: Drew DeVault

Eli Schwartz eschwartz at archlinux.org
Wed Feb 27 06:56:52 UTC 2019


On 2/27/19 1:37 AM, Brett Cornwall via aur-general wrote:
> 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.)

If the only thing we can find to complain about is his attitude towards
Manjaro, then we obviously cannot find anything to complain about. :)

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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