[aur-general] Trusted user application: Drew DeVault

[Geo Kozey]

> From: Drew DeVault via aur-general <aur-general at archlinux.org>
> Sent: Thu Feb 28 04:25:10 CET 2019
> To: Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR) <aur-general at archlinux.org>
> Cc: Drew DeVault <sir at cmpwn.com>
> Subject: Re: [aur-general] Trusted user application: Drew DeVault
> 
> 
> On 2019-02-28  2:22 AM, Levente Polyak via aur-general wrote:
> > > For the AUR I don't keep up with upstream releases, I just wait for
> > > someone to mark the package as outdated. For Alpine Linux I use a
> > > combination of subscribing to the upstream -announce mailing list and
> > > subscribing to GitHub releases as appropriate; would do something
> > > similar for Arch Linux community.
> > 
> > Well, to be honest its the maintainers responsibility to keep track of
> > upstream and not outsource out of date flagging to someone else. There
> > is no difference between [community] and AUR for something that is a
> > maintainer responsibility.
> 
> I respectfully disagree. The barrier to entry for the AUR is almost
> nonexistent and there's no expectation of support or quality - from Arch
> Linux or from the maintainers. I take some degree of personal pride in
> having nice AUR packages, but I also have a limited amount of time. Of
> course, I take my responsibility as maintainer much more seriously when
> working with packages in official repos.
> 

>From TU candidates there is very high expectation of support and quality and AUR 
is the place where they can prove it. If the lack of time is a problem then it 
will still be a problem after promotion. Saying that you will treat your 
maintainer work seriously only after you get promoted doesn't earn you much trust.

Yours sincerely

G. K.