On Thu, 2025-01-02 at 18:05 +0100, Robin Candau wrote: > > As said above, this situation has been going for months and is > particularly difficult to deal with. > We have multiple separate mail threads about the overall situation > and > most comments on the AUR are not written in English which makes it > non-trivial to deal with from a moderation standpoint. > > Decisions have not been taken arbitrarily, Muflone is just trying to > deal with this situation and I'm personally very thankful that > someone > is actually willing to try to solve this mess (excuse the term, but > frankly that's what it is at that point). The rest of the staff > approves > Muflone's decision / judgment (which is purely about trying to make > the > package work, regardless of the maintainer). > Such assumptions and judgments about staff decision's making are not > welcomed here [2]. Keep in mind that this is voluntary work.
I would very much like to second this statement. Mulfone and Antiz did not make their decisions in isolation; I approve of their decisions and conduct. The submission guidelines [1] are clear on the rule against duplicates. Sometimes variants make sense, but that doesn't mean an endless line of small tweaks should be in the AUR. You are free to choose a slightly different set of options, but there is no reason the resulting PKGBUILDs have to live in the AUR. I would also like to emphasize the remarks about writing in langauges other than English. We are a very international community and as such when discussing we should write in a language that is intelligible for everyone. We cannot moderate what we do not understand. The team of Package Maintainers tries to keep the AUR useful and welcoming to all, but it is sometimes hard to please everyone. In situations like this, where many people are claiming different things and there isn't a clear "correct" answer, decisions have to be made, and we do our best. As repeatedly stated, this is a volunteer position. Cheers, Bert. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_submission_guidelines
