On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 11:22 +0000, Peter Lewis wrote: > Hi Lukas, > > On Tuesday 25 January 2011 17:59:21 Lukas Fleischer wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:43:20AM -0700, Thomas S Hatch wrote: > > > I would also ask, is there a way to generate a list of packages that have > > > been flaged out of date for more than n days? > > > > Yes, there is. We did something similar during the last AUR cleanup > > (about three months ago iirc) to delete all packages that have been > > flagged for a long time. We also pushed a patch to aur.git [1] that > > adds out-of-date timestamps to packages in the package details view > > which might make life for TUs (and users as well) a bit easier (will be > > in 1.8.0). > > +1 to this, a TU dashboard like that would be awesome. > > > There is a feature request for a "Flag for deletion" button [2], feel > > free to join the discussion in the comments section. I'll look into that > > later. This probably won't go into 1.8.0 tho. > > I did a bit of work on this particular feature a few months ago and there was > some discussion and there are also some patches on aur-dev. These probably > need looking at again - but should work. I haven't had time recently since > starting my new job :-( > > Here was some of the discussion: > > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-dev/2010-September/001204.html > > > Here were the latest patches I wrote: > > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-dev/2010-September/001231.html > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-dev/2010-September/001230.html > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-dev/2010-September/001229.html > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-dev/2010-September/001228.html > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-dev/2010-September/001227.html > > And here was an example mail that would be sent (similar emails get sent to > aur-general, the maintainer and the notify list): > > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-dev/2010-September/001232.html > > The latest was that Loui wanted to deprecate pkgedit.php, and that's where > I'd > implemented it! It seemed sensible to me to put the form to collect the > reasons for the deletion request from the user in there. > > These might not be how you want to do it, but given that I don't have enough > time right now, they might help someone get started :-) > > Pete.
I love the idea of an "flag for deletion button" , would really make live a lot easier. Personally i would say, but a notification on the tu dashboard or just create a simple page with: packages (+link) | reason -- Jelle van der Waa
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