On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 at 13:50:42, 郑文辉 (Techlive Zheng) wrote: > 2014/1/7 Lukas Fleischer <[email protected]>: > [...] > Here are some thoughts: > > 1. The official Git URL for a AUR package is like this: > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xyz.git or > http://git.aur.archlinux.org/packages/xyz.git. > > 2. Each AUR user should be able to have its own fork of a perticular > AUR package with a URL like this: > http://aur.archlinux.org/account/john/packages/xyz.git. > > 3. The official Git HEAD for a AUR package is actually just a Git > reference to maintainer's fork's HEAD, we just need to change this Git > reference if the maintainer changes. Each fork of a package should > have its of votes which could be used to determine the maintainer for > the official AUR package. And the on the official AUR package's PAGE, > all the forks and their votes should be listed for the user to choose. > > This way, the job to maintain AUR will be more community driven, and > the burden for TUs will be much less.
Maybe, we should really switch to something like Gitorious or GitLab with a few additions that allow for marking a repository as "official", a PKGBUILD/.AURINFO parser and a customized search function.
