On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Nathan O <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Nathan O <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Heiko Baums <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Am Sun, 5 Sep 2010 02:52:55 -0500 >>> schrieb Nathan O <[email protected]>: >>> >>> > At this time, I am going through the >>> > ophaned packages and updating them to the latest versions and >>> > adopting packages(in my opinion this helps AUR out). >>> >>> And this is why I don't think you should become a TU. Your deletion >>> mania was a bit too big. You asked for package deletion obviously >>> without reading the PKGBUILDs and other files in the packages and >>> without comparing packages enough. >>> >>> If you send a removal request to the mailing list as a normal user >>> then a TU can first make sure if a package can indeed be removed, but >>> if you were a TU then you could remove those packages by yourself >>> without asking another TU first. >>> >>> So I don't think you should be a TU until you proof that you learned >>> reading PKGBUILDs and that you deal with packages not owned by yourself >>> trustworthily. I don't see this, yet. >>> >>> And I don't want my packages be removed from AUR just because you think >>> they can be removed because of a pointless reason. See again your >>> removal request for alevt and alevt-dvb. Packages are not the same just >>> because a part of the package names is identical. >>> >>> Heiko >>> >> I can understand your concern about deletion and I will work on that area. >> > Also I already knew that I wasn't ready to apply for a TU posistion yet. I > mainly meant by sponsor as more as somebody that I could go to, to see if I > did something correct or whatever. So don't concider my question as an > application, atleast just yet :) > > I have two questions: > > 1. Is it bad to adopt many packages to update them since they are > orphaned(since somebody didn't want the package(s) anymore), if so why?
I don't see anything wrong with that, as long as you commit yourself to maintain them in a timely fashion. > 2. On the note of deciding which packages to request to delete: > I should mainly look at the PKGBUILDS that enable certain > features than the other and does a package be concidered pretty much the > same if the package uses something like, for example, ./configure > --disable-scrollkeeper or things like that I think that a package should get deleted if another package provides the exact same thing, otherwise it is a case by case matter imo. > > Thanks > Cheers!
