On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 4:14 AM, Xyne <x...@archlinux.ca> wrote: > Sorry about the novel... > > My personal opinion is that uploading good-quality packages to the AUR > doesn't hurt even if you decide to orphan them quickly. They provide a > starting poing for anyone else looking for those packages. > > See below though. > From the introductory message, I think Laszlo's technical experience is > impressive. I think that having a TU who focuses on making Arch a > viable alternative for embedded systems would be a great asset to Arch > overall. Looking over his PKGBUILDs I would say that most of them look > good at first glance.* > > I haven't particularly focused on Laszlo in the mailing list although I > have been aware of his name popping up in the "From" column recently. I > did instantly recognize his forum avatar though, although I hadn't > connected that account to the posts on this list. > > In the last week or so I've been very aware of Laszlo posting on the > forum. He is very often the first to respond in thread when someone is > seeking help. My impression has been that his posts often come across > as agressive or overly enthusiastic (the two are easily mistaken). He > does provide useful information in some cases, but often it feels as > though he would be shouting at someone face-to-face.** I realize > that this may be a cultural and/or linguistic issue and the > latter is not something that I would criticize someone for. The finer > nuances of tone is easily lost in written communication even among > native speakers, but still, it does come off quite abrasively sometimes. > > What concerns me the most though, in conjunction with Allan's and > Loui's remarks above, is the very real possibility that Laszlo is > attempting to socially engineer his way to becoming a TU. I present > this merely as an idea and I honestly do not mean to offend anyone if > this is not the case. It just seems suspicious that his forum activity > has increase so much just shortly before posting an application, > especially if he's been using Arch for nearly one and a half years, as > he states in his introductory message (and as Allan points out, the > statement's he made there do not fit well with registration dates or > the types of questions that he was asking other TUs recently). > > > It feels like he's trying to game points by being visibly "helpful". > "Bragging" about how many packages he was maintaining, as Ghost1227 > put it, seems in line with this idea. I would suggest looking over his > forum and mailing list posts with this in mind, especially the ones > which appear to jump in on answers that have already been given. I'll > leave that there for now though so as not to overly bias anyone's > opinion before they've given this more consideration.
Archlinux Contribution isn't my short distance plan only. I like to do it, I like to give helping hand for the newbies. I wouldn't like to be a Social Engineer or a one who expect respect from others. I just try to do my best in this activity. I don't have any background purpose with forum/maillist posts, because it wouldn't be good to do this with that distribution/community which counts for me so much. I wouldn't have liked to brag with my packages, it wouldn't be the best habit, correct from anybody, I think so too. Then I've just realised the TUs said, lesser, cleaner packages are better. > As I said, this may be just a cultural/linguistic issue. A lot of > enthusiasm can easily come across the wrong way too, but at this point > I remain hesitant about this application. I really don't expect my > opinion to weigh in that much though because I still feel like "the new > guy" here. ;) > > > > * I'm not sure what the symlinks are doing in this one though: > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libftd2xx/libftd2xx/PKGBUILD It makes the symlinks to the present version of library/archive. > > and there are a few that still have "$startdir" in them, but I see that > you're in the process of changing them so that's not an issue at all: > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nesc/nesc/PKGBUILD Oops, I've forgotten to update, solved, thanks. > > **examples: > from a previous mailing list message, before the user could even reply > to Biro's message: "Follow suggestion from Biro Ionut!" > A forum-thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=77032 It was just a confirmation I think, like the well-known '+1' :) No problem about novel, thank you once more time the reply. Best Regards, Laszlo Papp