On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Joel Heaton <jhea...@archlinux.us> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 11:04 -0700, Thomas S Hatch wrote: > > 2011/1/13 Christoph <ch...@gmx.at> > > > > Indeed! > > > > > > > > Even more OT, wouldn't it be kinda cool if there was a mailing list > or > > > > something where people could post simply with news of new packages? I > > > can't > > > > imagine it would be very high traffic, but it would be interesting to > > > read > > > > in order to try new software out. > > > > > > "AUR Home" tells me: > > > Packages added or updated in the past 7 days: 2804 > > > > > > This makes an average of 400 per day, 16 per hour... > > > In my opinion that's too many... > > > > > > Cheers, Christoph > > > > > > > > I thought that the community contributions was the place to post about > new > > packages, thats where I put info about things like varch and libguestfs, > but > > I agree, some sort of pipe to talk about the new packages would be a nice > > thing to have, while I recognize the scope of adoptions and package > updates > > I still think it is worth consideration. > > > > -Tom Hatch > > I agree. Furthermore, I don't think everyone who updates or releases a > package would make an announcement, so whilst it may be there are 16 > submissions per-hour to the AUR, it's very unlikely that there would be > 16 announcements per-hour on a mailing list created for the purpose of > making such announcements. > > Of course, I'm not really in a position to say whether or not the > potential level of traffic is too great, but I would like to see such a > list implemented if it were at all possible. > > Regards, > > Joel. > > One of my greatest professional advantages is found in software awareness, knowing what is out there and what I can leverage, I agree with Joel that it would be highly advantageous to the community to have a place to post this sort of stuff. If anything else presenting it as an experiment, I think, is worth consideration. -Tom