Re: [arch-dev-public] Improving overall experience for contributors

2017-05-23 Thread Jerome Leclanche
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 2:19 AM, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: > What I would be inclined to accept would be that packages are, at least at > first, always > co-maintained by sponsor and sponsored TU. This way we can assure that new > TU's can handle > ll the tasks related to maintaining a package. C

Re: [arch-dev-public] Improving overall experience for contributors

2017-05-23 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini
Em maio 23, 2017 17:23 Bartłomiej Piotrowski escreveu: One of the problems I keep hearing about is that there is no clear place where potential contributors could start. Sure, some things seem obvious to us: take care of some wiki article or adopt orphan AUR packages. It isn't actually that easy

Re: [arch-dev-public] Improving overall experience for contributors

2017-05-23 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2017-05-23 22:23:51 +0200] Bartłomiej Piotrowski: > Another thing that I heard in last few months isthat it is actually hard > for potential TU candidates to find a sponsor. While I believe it is > perfectly fine to e-mail few potential sponsors to ask for opinion, > throwing random messages at pe

[arch-dev-public] Improving overall experience for contributors

2017-05-23 Thread Bartłomiej Piotrowski
Hi all, Spending some time outside the regular Arch circles, I realized that the way we "outreach" potential contributors is at least imperfect. One of the problems I keep hearing about is that there is no clear place where potential contributors could start. Sure, some things seem obvious to us:

Re: [arch-dev-public] MariaDB 10.2.x

2017-05-23 Thread Bartłomiej Piotrowski
On 2017-05-23 12:59, Christian Hesse wrote: > The main change is the library rename from `libmysqlclient.so` to > `libmariadb.so`. I would like to rename our package from `libmariadbclient` > to just `libmariadb`. Any objections? None from my side. I guess that SONAME field will be different from

[arch-dev-public] MariaDB 10.2.x

2017-05-23 Thread Christian Hesse
Hello everybody, MariaDB 10.2.6 has just been released, being the latest stable release as of now. As we have API/ABI changes we need a rebuild of depending packages. The main change is the library rename from `libmysqlclient.so` to `libmariadb.so`. I would like to rename our package from `libmar