Hi,
I am not going to respond to everything in this email it's way tooo
long. But CC'ing zoorat/MarsSeed as they are discussed here.
On 15/11/2023 11:28, 7Ji wrote:
My opinion on this first: I'm not against his intention to clean AUR.
I'm against using some self-written scripts to mass-file requests to
certain packages just based on t
heir traits, like keywords, names, or whatever. I'm also against doing
so by hand, which is basically using yourself as a request machine.
Agreed.
I think most of us would agree that every request, no matter they're for
orphan, merge, or deletion, need to be thought carefully and sent with
details associated close
ly with it. And blindly filing them just adds burden to PMs as this
leaves research to be done to PMs.
This has been the case for half a year now?
The direct reason I want to post this is reading following requests:
PRQ#51267[1], PRQ#51269[2], PRQ#51270[3] and PRQ#51271[4], these affects
armcl-opencl[5], arm-linux
-gnueabihf-armcl-neon[6], aarch64-linux-gnu-armcl-opencl+neon[7] and
aarch64-linux-gnu-armcl-neon[8] accordingly.
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This is not right. This, an automated request filing process, should not
be the way a user files their package requests. If an automated process
just catches all packag
es with some traits and filing requests is acceptable, then why is a
user needed in the process at all? The user account is just like an API
key for a bot program in that case. And if doing so is acceptable, why
not just give the script or whatever tech behind the automated process
to PMs so they can even save the time needed to check
requests list?
I cannot comment on if these packages should go or not but skimming
through the thousands of requests we have there are several categories
of request:
* Deletion request because the source is gone
* Deleting unneeded libs because nothing in the AUR uses it
Leaving packages in the AUR which have no source isn't helping anyone,
"unneeeded libraries" is a bit of a problematic as they could be useful
you just don't know.
However AUR Requests can only be handled one by one so going through the
requests is a painful task and discouraging as there are currently 59
pages to go through. Getting this automated in AURWeb itself would be a
lot more helpful then filling ~ 50k deletion requests.
Filling this amount of requests only leads to a burnout of the AUR Staff
trying to get a hold of the requests situation. So I would like to kinda
ask Marsseed/Zoorat to stop filling requests until we can get a hold on
the massive backlog of open requests.
Thanks in advance,
Jelle
