On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 at 13:15, Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 10:11:24AM +0100, Public mailing list for Arch > Linux development wrote: > > > PS. If unmaintained orphans in [core] could be moved to [extra], and > > unmaintained orphans in [extra] could be moved to [community], that could > > be a nice "trickle down" effect and would be an appreciated cleanup as > > well, but that is just my opinion. > > Wouldn't it make more sense to move from [core]/[extra] to [community] > instead of moving from [core] to [extra] to [community]. > > The group of possible maintainers is constant for a move of [core] to > [extra] and I don't think, that such a repository change is helpful. > The package will just decay for another year before it will get exposed > to a new group of possible maintainers. > > Chris > That's actually a pretty good point. +1

