Not entirely sure what you mean -- there are 22 community packages that have been orphaned. That's not a tremendous amount. Are these the packages you meant, or are you counting all orphaned packages on AUR? There are 1286 of those, but they aren't the responsibilty of the TUs to maintain unless they want to.
(Just to clarify.) Regardless, I'm sure it wouldn't hurt Arch if you attempted to become a TU. I'm not one, but I recommend that you read the information about how to become one if you haven't: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TU_Person_Specification http://dev.archlinux.org/~simo/TUbylaws.html (read section on TU Addition at least) Cheers, -Andrei 'Garoth' Thorp On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Ali H. Caliskan <[email protected]> wrote: > Apparently there must be a shortage of TUs, since there are several orphaned > packages in AUR. I'm thinking of becoming a TU but I have only used Arch > Linux for two months. > > Ali > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Smartboy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Ali H. Caliskan >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I can't adopt the orphaned mysql-gui-tools package. >> > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9126 >> > >> > ali >> > >> >> That is because it is a community package (not an unsupported one). >> Perhaps one of the TUs can move it to unsupported. >> >> Smartboy >> >
