Hi On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 8:30 AM, Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]> wrote: > at least one > maintainer seems to suffer from something like a collecting mania > and/or control mania
It's important to note: this is just the opinion of Ralf and Pedro. There is no proof nor a statement (yet) that could even suggest that Det has a collecting mania or something like that. We should keep in mind that until proven guilty, Det is just a very generous maintainer. If he/she has the time to do all of that work for free, we should admire him/her. > and at least two other maintainers felt harassed > by this maintainer Again, it's important to note that these other maintainers gave no proof of harassment yet. We just learnt that Det is Finnish and shared "immature things" on Google+ (as if that could have the slightest weight in an harassment accusation). > there maybe is the need to take a look at > maintainers of very much PKGBUILDS. Again, not to ensure that the > PKGBUILDS are secure, I hoped that I have already explained good enough > that this isn't what I'm thinking of. It might be helpful for the sense > of well-being of other maintainers, to at least ensure that there is no > suspect organisation acting. I agree with taking a look at packages (I would add a "Flag as compromised/virus" link, which has a similar effect to "Flag package out-of-date"). > I'm not a package maintainer, so "AUR > packages are user produced content. Any use of the provided files is at > your own risk." is addressed to me and other users and doesn't include > the the sense of well-being of maintainers, who feel pressure by other, > misbehaving maintainers. As a user I don't know if this is really an > issue, or even true. I believe it would be a good thing to address (with a code of conduct) *the possibility* of having misbehaving maintainers pressuring other maintainers. It's important to note, however, that this "pressuring" hasn't ever happened, until someone proves it happened. -- William
