On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Thomas Dziedzic <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > > > > Cheers! > If I see an out-of-date notification, I check and make sure it is out dated and if so, then I update it right then.
