On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 at 21:39:52, Florian Bruhin wrote: > * Joakim Hernberg <jhernb...@alchemy.lu> [2015-06-11 21:03:50 +0200]: > > On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 13:36:54 -0500 > > Eli Schwartz <eschwart...@gmail.com> wrote: > [...] > > > The suggestion was made that perhaps a tarball upload could be added > > > which would create automatic commits to the git repository. > > > Hopefully, something like that could be added, it would allow people > > > who don't want to deal with the added complexity to continue on as > > > though nothing had ever happened. > > > > IMO this would be a good idea. > > FWIW, +1 here as well. > > I love git so I'm excited about all the new possibilites and feel like > it's a very good improvement - but I can see how this makes it harder > for people who'd prefer not getting into git just to contribute to the > AUR. > [...]
I am against adding anything that involves uploading a tarball. I am not averse to including a set of utilities to help with working with to AUR to [community], though (as long as there isn't anything similar to a package manager for the AUR -- please let's not discuss this here). There could be a simple tool called aur-pkgsubmit that roughly does the following: 1. Check whether the current directory is the top-level directory of a Git repository, otherwise initialize a new repository. 2. Run `mksrcinfo` or something equivalent. 3. `git add` the PKGBUILD, .SRCINFO and other source files. 4. Commit the changes with a predefined commit message that can be edited. If the HEAD commit is not pushed yet, amend the previous commit instead of creating a new one. 5. Setup Git remotes according to the package base name, unless configured already. 6. Push the changes. Users not knowing Git would be able to just update their PKGBUILDs and run that tool to submit the package, without even knowing that Git is used under the hood. What do you think? Regards, Lukas