Am 02.01.2011 18:23, schrieb Stefan Husmann: > Am 01.01.2011 21:15, schrieb Xyne: >> Florian Pritz wrote: >> >>> I noticed tenshi [1] hasn't been updated for quite a while and I'd like >>> to maintain it (and perl-io-bufferedselect which is a dependency in >>> newer versions and not yet in AUR/repos) in community if 1) the current >>> maintainer is okay with that and 2) three TUs agree because it sadly >>> doesn't satisfy the 10 votes or 1% usage rule. >>> >>> I've got a working PKGBUILD for 0.12 and I'm already using it on my >>> systems. In case I can't move it to community I'll publish that later. >>> >>> CC'ing the current maintainer (Ryan). >>> >>> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14088 >>> >>> -- >>> Florian Pritz -- {flo,[email protected] >>> >> >> There are two unrelated issues here. The first is that you want to actively >> maintain a package that you use and which appears to be neglected by its >> current maintainer. If the maintainer does not update the package in response >> to your email or says that you can take it, then it's obviously fine for you >> to >> take it. The maintainer may respond by updating it though, as he's been >> active >> as recently as October. >> >> The second issue is one of moving this to [community]. The package has been >> in >> the AUR for 3 years yet only has 6 votes. I doubt that it takes long to >> compile either, so why do you want to move it to [community]? I see no >> benefit >> in doing, and it will only complicate maintenance for you. I think you should >> just maintain it in the AUR, at least until it reaches the vote threshold. >> >> Regards, >> Xyne >> > My 2 cents: > > - The maintainer has 8 packages, 3 of which are flagged out of date. > - The tenshi PKGBUILD is in very bad shape (arch is wrong, many startdirs and > "|| return 1"'s). > > So IMHO you should not wait till the author responded, but adopt the PKGBUILD > and > maintain it in AUR. If it is still just a perl script as it was in 2007, > then, as > Xyne already said, it won't take long to "build", and so there is another > point > against its move to [community]. > > BTW, it now has 9 votes. Seems we have some audition here. :) > > Regards Stefan > BTW, somewhere on the homepage of tenshi I found that it has a predecessor named "oak". Since this was not in AUR yet, i made a PKGBUILD for it.
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45011 Regards Stefan
