Re: Application to become a package maintainer

2023-11-12 Thread Torsten Keßler
Am 12.11.23 um 23:34 schrieb Jakub Klinkovský: Hey everyone, I'm sending my application to become a package maintainer, which is kindly sponsored by Sven (svenstaro) and Frederik (freswa). ## Who I am My name is Jakub, but I'm mostly known as Lahwaacz online. I've been an Arch wiki admin since

Re: got a laptop 🙂

2023-11-12 Thread zoorat
hi, thanks a lot for the answers. idk why i didn't get your email in the digest, so i will it mail like this... > Maybe instead of trying to delete everything which is unmaintained you > should start adopting it and then maintaining it? i was just trying to help cleanup AUR. didn't mean any h

Re: got a laptop

2023-11-12 Thread zoorat
sure, i will do that if it works already picked up some pkgs like that :) and what if its broken ?? On 11/13/23 10:32, a...@nullvoid.me wrote: > I feel most users just want it to work, instead of maintaining it properly. > So if you see out of date packages over 2-3 year that still "work" why n

Re: got a laptop

2023-11-12 Thread aur
I feel most users just want it to work, instead of maintaining it properly. So if you see out of date packages over 2-3 year that still "work" why not try to adopt them, instead of deleting them.

Re: got a laptop

2023-11-12 Thread zoorat
hi, thanks for the answer. but i think i asked the question in the wrong way. when i was testing out-of-date packages there were some with out-of-date flag before 2020 but those works i was meaning to ask, **how long does the package have to be out of sync with the main source ??** also i found

Re: Application to become a package maintainer

2023-11-12 Thread Frederik Schwan
On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 11:34:34PM +0100, Jakub Klinkovský wrote: > Hey everyone, I'm sending my application to become a package maintainer, > which is kindly sponsored by Sven (svenstaro) and Frederik (freswa). > > ## Who I am > > My name is Jakub, but I'm mostly known as Lahwaacz online. I've bee

Re: Application to become a package maintainer

2023-11-12 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 12.11.23 23:34, Jakub Klinkovský wrote: Hey everyone, I'm sending my application to become a package maintainer, which is kindly sponsored by Sven (svenstaro) and Frederik (freswa). ## Who I am My name is Jakub, but I'm mostly known as Lahwaacz online. I've been an Arch wiki admin since 2014

Application to become a package maintainer

2023-11-12 Thread Jakub Klinkovský
Hey everyone, I'm sending my application to become a package maintainer, which is kindly sponsored by Sven (svenstaro) and Frederik (freswa). ## Who I am My name is Jakub, but I'm mostly known as Lahwaacz online. I've been an Arch wiki admin since 2014 and also created the man.archlinux.org proje

Re: got a laptop :)

2023-11-12 Thread Björn Bidar
"David C. Rankin" writes: >> 2. should AUR host out-of-date but working packages ?? >> > > There is always a sliding-scale of "How out-of-date?". Is some user of > the package just flagging it 10 minutes after the latest upstream > change? > > Is a dependency no longer supported by Arch (that's

Re: got a laptop :)

2023-11-12 Thread David C. Rankin
I have no powers to decide, so take the comments as just my suggestions as far as an appropriate approach: On 11/12/23 00:53, zoorat wrote: 1. is it ok to file deletion req for not orphan also not out of date package ?? should i first try to contact the maintainer and if he does not update, sho