On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Nathan O <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 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 If I see an out-of-date notification, I check and make sure it is out dated 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. > Thanks for not bashing me or anything, like I mentioned a little ago. I pretty much knew that it isn't time to apply for a posistion. My thing is that I like having more of a one-on-one "advisor" or so to speak.
