-----Original Message----- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:03:12 +0200 Subject: Re: [aur-general] Applying for TU-ship From: "Ronald van Haren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] style="margin:0px;"> To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)" <aur-general@archlinux.org>
>On 8/19/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> At the time I maintain 108 packages in AUR. Not all of them were >> written my me, but some of them I made after package requests on >> archlinux.org. Also I am active in the forums at archlinux.org and >> archlinux.de. >I haven't checked them yet, I'll do so later. I see a lot of these >packages have few votes, I assume you don't plan to move them all to >community? No, surely not. There are some -git, -cvs, -svn packages among them. Some packages do not need compilation, so users won't benefit too much from having it in a repo. >It is not really a lot of work to build on a remove machine. It only >takes little more time compared to building on your local machine. >Just take as many packages as you can do, but please try to build them >for both architectures at times that there is a build machine >available. Are you willing to do so? I am willing to do so. Maybe I will need some help at the beginning. >You said you want to concentrate on really important packages. That >brings up the million dollar question: what are really important >packages in your eyes? You really want to give me a million dollar if I answer that question? :) Just kidding. The votes are a good hint. But sometimes a package gets few votes because it fullfils a special task or addresses a small audiance. I do not have a list of packages yet I want to put in community. But fotoxx or xaralx could be a candidate. >Ronald Thank you for your reply. Stefan
