On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 03:33:38AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Hi all, > > To get this moving along, I would like to start the official discussion > period. Standard rules, 5 days discussion, 7 days voting, 75% quorum. If > discussion raises some points which really need to be addressed before a > vote then it can be delayed. > > Abhishek has mad a good summary with some additions by Loui at > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Community_move_to_devtools . > > > I am very much in favour of this move as it will allow use to use [testing] > for community packages, which remove the current problems we have during big > rebuilds. It also means that any other changes made to the repos (e.g. > arch=any packages, delta support to name my favourites) only needs to be > made in one place. I also like the idea of the AUR being just unsupported > packages and (despite not actually contributing code to the AUR) I have the > feeling that this separation would make AUR development cleaner. > > Loosing the ability for users to leave comments about a package on the AUR > is not a big deal for me as I think most of these should probably go to the > bug tracker where they will not get lost. The concern about autonomy of the > TUs is difficult for me to judge being a dev too, but given ~1/3 TUs are > devs...
Well, what we lose or gain depends on how the change is implemented. We could still track votes via AUR until a better system is implemented. We just need to be able to get a checkout of everything in community and modify tupkgupdate.
