[aur-general] TU resignation.

2014-08-04 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi all, I had hoped it wouldn't come to this, but based on mounting evidence, I've come to the conclusion that I should resign as a TU. Most of you probably already forgot I was here, and I'm sorry that I just haven't been able to keep on top of things and participate lately. A lot has happened

Re: [aur-general] TU resignation.

2014-08-04 Thread Peter Lewis
On Mon, 04 Aug 2014, Thorsten Töpper wrote: well with all this you mention here it doesn't sound too bad so have fun and I hope you enjoy it. :-) Thanks, Thorsten. All is indeed well :-) Pete.

[aur-general] Inactive for a bit.

2012-03-04 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi all, I'm going to be inactive for a bit, I'm afraid. I'm travelling for work this week, and then moving house. Not sure how quickly I'll get Internet set up at the new place. If anyone could update choqok, then that would be great - it should be a straightforward version bump. I'm not aware

Re: [aur-general] Duplication: gill-sans-font | ttf-gill-sans

2012-03-03 Thread Peter Lewis
On Sat, 03 Mar 2012, Simon Legner wrote: the packages gill-sans-font and ttf-gill-sans provide the same font. It would make sense to delete one. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9843 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18570 Merged. Thanks for the reminder, I meant to do

Re: [aur-general] TU sponsorship.

2012-03-02 Thread Peter Lewis
On Friday 02 Mar 2012 13:03:47 Thomas Bächler wrote: I always highlight that the Arch core developers usually don't interfere with the affairs of the TU group. In that sense, the bylaws make sense by saying you need to TU to sponsor him. However, the important part (voting) is done by TUs

Re: [aur-general] Inactive user tdy

2012-03-01 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 29 Feb 2012 20:26:37 Cédric Girard wrote: I have not contacted him but he is in cc of this email. I presume you mean bcc? Either that, or you forgot to add his address to the cc. Just checking :-) Pete.

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Ike Devolder

2012-03-01 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi Ike, Thanks for applying :-) On Thursday 01 Mar 2012 08:33:17 Ike Devolder wrote: Currently I'm using Archlinux as my primary operating system for over 6 years and for several years I'm maintaining a small number of packages in AUR[1]. I also keep a repository with arch packages for

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Ike Devolder

2012-03-01 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 01 Mar 2012 07:51:47 Stéphane Gaudreault wrote: This is a bit picky of me, but technically the sponsor is supposed to be a TU and as far as I can tell Stéphane is a dev rather than a TU... So ... Following this logic I have the power to break everything on your system ... but

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - György Balló

2012-03-01 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 01 Mar 2012 23:35:16 Heiko Baums wrote: 4. AUR is meant for providing PKGBUILDs for other users, so that they don't need to do the same work again (writing the PKGBUILDs). Since e.g. indicator-messages can't be installed by other users - at least not with yaourt Sounds like you

Re: [aur-general] ruby 1.9.3_p125-1 in [extra]

2012-02-25 Thread Peter Lewis
On Saturday 25 Feb 2012 13:43:39 Thomas Dziedzic wrote: I have released ruby 1.9.3_p125 into [extra]. Great work, Thomas. As a result of the above change, all ruby gem packages will have to add a --no-user-install flag when running gem in the PKGBUILD. Aaahh, ha haa.. I hadn't quite realised

Re: [aur-general] Deletion Request lirc-utils-git

2012-02-20 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 20 Feb 2012 09:47:12 Mark Foxwell wrote: Please delete my package lirc-utils-git [1] as this was only created as a quick fix for a compile error and is no longer needed. Alternatively, if anyone thinks this package is of any use, I will just disown. If it works, IMO it might be

Re: [aur-general] Removal request: Malicious package

2012-02-19 Thread Peter Lewis
On Sunday 19 Feb 2012 15:21:57 Dimitri Semitsoglou-Tsiapos wrote: Package testtesrdfdfdfa script src=//bit.ly/xN4HZd-2/* [1] appears to exist for the sole purpose of attempting cross-site scripting. Deleted. Thanks for flagging this up. Pete.

Re: [aur-general] disowning a couple of packages

2012-02-14 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 13 Feb 2012 19:03:55 Thomas Dziedzic wrote: If you plan on adopting sage-mathematics, you should know that it is currently unbuildable on archlinux, and some other newer distros due to how it is built. It is currently out of date, and you wont be able to update it without

Re: [aur-general] Packages available to adopt in community

2012-02-04 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 02 Feb 2012 12:46:21 Moritz Rudert wrote: I would like to the python-packages, but, like Christoph, I am not a TU yet and don't know how I become one? Is that a question or a statement? ;-) It's all in the TU byelaws: http://aur.archlinux.org/trusted-user/TUbylaws.html Cheers,

Re: [aur-general] [Deletion request] enbudget

2012-01-13 Thread Peter Lewis
On Friday 13 Jan 2012 02:12:31 David Rawson Couzelis wrote: Please delete the enbudget AUR package. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47010 The application has been renamed divvyup. A new AUR package has been created with the new name. I am both the maintainer of the AUR package

Re: [aur-general] [orphan request] charles 3.6.3-1

2012-01-13 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi, On Friday 13 Jan 2012 03:01:52 Ernie Brodeur wrote: The package charles-3.6.3-1 has been flagged out of date since nov 30th. I would like to adopt it, is it possible to get it disowned? Please send an email to the maintainer first, asking them to update it, or if you can take over. If

Re: [aur-general] New package: ttytter

2012-01-11 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi Pablo, On Wednesday 11 Jan 2012 20:56:03 Pablo Olmos de Aguilera C. wrote: Well... this isn't new really... until a couple of weeks ago (prolly less) there were an outdated version. I tried to communicate with the maintainer, but he never answered. Now I found that the package doesn't

Re: [aur-general] dropboxd-userspace

2011-12-23 Thread Peter Lewis
On Friday 23 Dec 2011 14:41:09 Karol Blazewicz wrote: Was dropboxd-userspace just removed or merged with dropbox-daemon? Peter Lewis asked [1] does merging also transfer the notify list? so to test this I subscribed to dropboxd-userspace but not to dropbox-daemon. Now the former package

Re: [aur-general] Unlicensed code

2011-12-23 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 21 Dec 2011 23:12:38 full-engl...@live.co.uk wrote: Does anyone know what the usual procedure is if the code is unlicensed? This will almost certainly vary by jurisdiction. In England and Wales at least (as far as I understand it) no code is unlicensed - copyright is

Re: [aur-general] Git sparse checkouts

2011-12-21 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 21 Dec 2011 20:07:42 full-engl...@live.co.uk wrote: Does anyone know what the usual procedure is if the code is unlicensed? This will almost certainly vary by jurisdiction. In England and Wales at least (as far as I understand it) no code is unlicensed - copyright is automatic and

Re: [aur-general] Qt 4.8 hits [testing] + qtwebkit package

2011-12-21 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 22 Dec 2011 01:12:04 Ionut Biru wrote: Seems like there's another new dependence, qtwebkit pulls in phonon, this didn't happen when it was part of qt. Why is this? because in the past he didn't built html5 support in qt. It would be insane(from kde perspective) to have

Re: [aur-general] Qt 4.8 hits [testing] + qtwebkit package

2011-12-20 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi, On Tuesday 20 Dec 2011 10:01:00 Andrea Scarpino wrote: But - HTML5 video and audio tags aren't working for me. I tried it in konqueror, rekonq and aurora. The first frame of the video loads, but it won't play. This is with either gstreamer or vlc phonon backends. I tried youtube in

Re: [aur-general] Remove request: pure-svn

2011-12-20 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tuesday 20 Dec 2011 22:46:14 Alastair Pharo wrote: I've recently taken over some of the ophaned pure-* packages, including pure-svn. Thanks Alastair. I found that in fact the Pure project migrated from subversion to mercurial some time ago (see

Re: [aur-general] Timothy Redaelli (tredaeli) TU application - voting period

2011-12-15 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 15 Dec 2011 15:41:55 Andrea Scarpino wrote: That means we can welcome Timothy Redaelli as new TU team member. Congratulations! Congratulations Timothy! Welcome to the team! Pete.

Re: [aur-general] orphan request for frandom

2011-12-05 Thread Peter Lewis
On Sunday 04 Dec 2011 23:18:13 Dave Reisner wrote: Sounds like a good candidate for orphanage. Have at it. oooh.. orphanage as a nouned verb. yum.

Re: [aur-general] Developer/TU key signing

2011-12-02 Thread Peter Lewis
On Friday 25 Nov 2011 15:27:28 Ionut Biru wrote: Every packager please do: 1) reply this email in the mailing list, include gerolde/sigurd username and sign your reply using your gpg key. plewis 2) name at least one package you already signed. pigeonhole

Re: [aur-general] Developer/TU key signing

2011-12-02 Thread Peter Lewis
On Friday 02 Dec 2011 22:24:12 Ionut Biru wrote: missing signature. dammit! sorry... hang on...

Re: [aur-general] Developer/TU key signing

2011-12-02 Thread Peter Lewis
On Friday 25 Nov 2011 15:27:28 Ionut Biru wrote: Every packager please do: 1) reply this email in the mailing list, include gerolde/sigurd username and sign your reply using your gpg key. plewis 2) name at least one package you already signed. pigeonhole signature.asc Description: This

Re: [aur-general] Developer / TU key signing, first master key available

2011-12-01 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 28 Nov 2011 15:12:53 Thomas Bächler wrote: Please note: There are many TUs (and some devs) that didn't reply to this request yet. Sorry - I haven't replied to any yet and won't get a chance to until the weekend. Hope that doesn't delay anything... :-)

Re: [aur-general] Please remove my AUR account

2011-12-01 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 30 Nov 2011 22:14:21 Xyne wrote: Dave Reisner wrote: the off topic train goes choo choo crash boom Back on topic, I agree with Pierre (as I usually do in issues regarding privacy and security). AUR accounts should be deletable. Names can be reserved for a fixed period (from

Re: [aur-general] GPG Key Signing

2011-12-01 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 01 Dec 2011 09:08:39 Thomas Dziedzic wrote: I do find it kind of abnormal that a TU does want to retain his real name. To be fair that are loads of potential reasons why someone wouldn't want their actual identity disclosed in a place where discussions are archived on the web with

Re: [aur-general] delete package

2011-11-09 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011, Axilleas P wrote: Please delete again pyhon2-gitissius due to typo. I built on a different machine where the typo still existed. Sorry for the confusion... https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=53861 gone.

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Sébastien Luttringer

2011-11-07 Thread Peter Lewis
On Mon, 07 Nov 2011, Seblu wrote: I'm applying to be a TU. My sponsor is Dave Reisner. Excellent - great to see you applying again! Pete.

Re: [aur-general] Mass Orphan

2011-11-06 Thread Peter Lewis
I can take these: banner (along with shhmsg and shhopt) freesynd qwit sopwith whichwayisup Just orphan the rest if you're not intending on maintaining them any more. People can pick them up themselves then. Cheers, Pete.

Re: [aur-general] replies

2011-11-01 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi Jonathan, Please fix your mail client so that it doesn't break threads when you post replies. (I'm not quite sure what you did, since it's always worked out of the box for me...) Otherwise, it's really difficult to follow a conversation. Thanks, Pete. On Mon, 31 Oct 2011, Jonathan Steel

Re: [aur-general] Removal request - fceux-nogui

2011-10-31 Thread Peter Lewis
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011, Jonathan Steel wrote: Obsolete; as of the latest version you can now compile with --nogui. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38760 According to the comment on the AUR page, the latest version can be *run* with --nogui and doesn't need to be recompiled. But, this

Re: [aur-general] TU application

2011-10-28 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi Jonathan, Thanks for your interest. I don't personally think it's a problem that you don't currently have a sponsor, since I think people should be able to solicit to the list if they would like to apply, rather than being required to ask people off-list. Obviously the discussion period and

Re: [aur-general] Request to add a rule

2011-10-28 Thread Peter Lewis
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Christopher luna wrote: Im not even asking you to agree with me, Im asking you to vote and decide if including urls to warez on pkgbuilds that are on AUR is OFFICIALY ok, or not. again is not about they being propietary software or about providing installers. Is ONLY

Re: [aur-general] Dynamically evaluating md5sum value in PKGBUILD

2011-10-27 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Maciej Sitarz wrote: I'm maintaining hunspell-pl AUR package (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44331). The problem with the package is that the maintainer of the source provides only the latest(daily) tarball snapshot. The md5sum of the tarball changes daily and

Re: [aur-general] single-user gnome-shell-theme pkgs

2011-09-25 Thread Peter Lewis
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011, Xyne wrote: PKGBUILDs should not install anything in a user's home directory. Absolutely. This should be a hard rule IMO. Pete.

Re: [aur-general] Flashplugin Duplicates

2011-09-07 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011, Lukas Fleischer wrote: I usually drop a comment before removing a package, so that at least all users on the notification list get informed. In case of doubt, you can almost always check aur-general. Yeah, this is a really good idea IMO. Pete.

Re: [aur-general] Remove request

2011-09-07 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011, Andrea Scarpino wrote: On Wednesday, September 07, 2011 08:28:56 PM OK wrote: Please remove this package: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49444 I created new one with different name. Done Can we include package names on removal request emails please? This

Re: [aur-general] Remove request

2011-09-07 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011, Andrea Scarpino wrote: On Wednesday, September 07, 2011 07:46:15 PM Peter Lewis wrote: Can we include package names on removal request emails please? This thread is kinda useless in the archive and I don't know if package ID 49444 was one that I was using

Re: [aur-general] Mass orphan all ghost1227 packages

2011-08-16 Thread Peter Lewis
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, Justin Davis wrote: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34686 clyde-git Looks like this is no longer being developed :-( /me hopes someone pops up to prove him wrong...

Re: [aur-general] Delete firefox-firebug

2011-08-16 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Florian Pritz wrote: If you agree with this, a firefox-firebug could be re-uploaded, replacing the actual firefox-extension-firebug-stable. I'd say go with it, but we should probably wait for at least one more opinion on the matter. Sounds good to me; I'm all for

Re: [aur-general] Delete Request

2011-08-16 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi, On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, speps wrote: Hi, plowshare recently switched from svn to git plowshare-svn [1] can be deleted, since plowshare-git [2] replaces it [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31779 [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=51591 Sounds good - but I just

Re: [aur-general] Delete Request

2011-08-16 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Peter Lewis wrote: PS. cc'ing dserban Okay, I heard back from dserban. The SVN package has gone. Thanks speps. Pete.

Re: [aur-general] Delete Request

2011-08-16 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, speps wrote: I already uploaded plowshare-git, cause I actually maintain plowshare, and i'm used to follow its development, since the actual project leader release a snapshot every 10~ days. Oh excellent, makes sense then. Btw, you're right. I'll disown it, if dserban

Re: [aur-general] Removal Request

2011-08-14 Thread Peter Lewis
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011, gadget3000 wrote: tux-ragnarok-full (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34062) - Dead multiplayer project. Dead source link and I can't find a mirror. 3 votes and hasn't been updated since Feb 2010. No maintainer. Agreed - deleted. Pete.

Re: [aur-general] Removal Request

2011-08-14 Thread Peter Lewis
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011, gadget3000 wrote: theforgottenserver-svn (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21881) The svn repository is no longer available to the public (Source: http://otland.net/f55/moved-private-subversion-11833/). There used to be a public repository at

Re: [aur-general] Removal Requests

2011-08-13 Thread Peter Lewis
On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, gadget3000 wrote: falldown (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11856) is a dead project and has a dead source link. I can't find a mirror. poker3d (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9894) is a dead multiplayer only project. Dead source link, I found a mirror

Re: [aur-general] Request for PKGBUILD check: perl-pdl 2.4.9-1

2011-07-13 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi, On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Anton Leontiev wrote: Currently I'm stuck with makedepends/optdepends. There is a number of dependencies which are optional, but to get PDL work with them as with optional packages in Arch, it should be compiled with them. So I added the in both makedepends and

Re: [aur-general] VCS dupes in the AUR

2011-04-14 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, J. W. Birdsong wrote: On 04/12/11 at 10:00pm, Stefan Husmann wrote: On 12.04.2011 08:58, Peter Lewis wrote: Done a bit of research... On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Stefan Husmann wrote: irssi (VCS) * irssi-svn https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6163 * irssi-git

Re: [aur-general] VCS dupes in the AUR

2011-04-14 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, Lukas Fleischer wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:45:52PM +0200, Martti Kühne wrote: +1 for *-git vcs dupes to stay, where upstream vcs is a different one. -1 for removal of vcs dupes in general, since apparently different people prefer different vcs. Besides, how much

Re: [aur-general] VCS dupes in the AUR

2011-04-12 Thread Peter Lewis
Done a bit of research... On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Stefan Husmann wrote: irssi (VCS) * irssi-svn https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6163 * irssi-git https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25781 These both seem official, though the main website points to the SVN repo and not the git

Re: [aur-general] Takeover Request

2011-04-09 Thread Peter Lewis
On Sat, 09 Apr 2011, 郑文辉 wrote: It is typical to give maintainers at least a week. Also, have you tried directly emailing them? Yes, I think the defacto usual practice is to email people directly and then leave a week if urgent, preferably two weeks. It's quite usual for people to go on

Re: [aur-general] Reflector

2011-04-05 Thread Peter Lewis
On Mon, 04 Apr 2011, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: I'll correct myself then, gmail+pentadactyl does not like the combination of mailing lists I'm on. Some of them are badly configured (thankfully none of the Arch ones) and have to be used with reply-to-all, hence sometimes I press the wrong button, not

Re: [aur-general] Web-client for emails: [WAS:Reflector]

2011-04-05 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tue, 05 Apr 2011, Loui Chang wrote: On Tue 05 Apr 2011 18:00 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: Gmail's web interface has THE best approach to threading. Ever. If you have any other suggestion (web client or linux desktop client) which comes anywhere close please let me know. Evolution's threading

Re: [aur-general] svn tweak

2011-03-21 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi, On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Ray Rashif wrote: Is the packaging workflow not clear enough from the guidelines? I have to admit (and I don't intend to offend anyone) that I found it a little confusing at first, though the how to be a packager page appears to have become a little clearer recently :-)

Re: [aur-general] TU application (Kyle Keen)

2011-03-02 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 17:28:51 Xyne wrote: keenerd wrote: Hi guys. I am Kyle Keen (keenerd) and am applying to be a TU, sponsored by Xyne. I have indeed agreed to sponsor Comrade Keen in his bid to infiltrate the ...wait -- should that not be Commander Keen? ;-)

Re: [aur-general] TU application (Kyle Keen)

2011-03-02 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 18:57:00 Peter Lewis wrote: On Wednesday 02 March 2011 17:28:51 Xyne wrote: keenerd wrote: Hi guys. I am Kyle Keen (keenerd) and am applying to be a TU, sponsored by Xyne. I have indeed agreed to sponsor Comrade Keen in his bid to infiltrate

Re: [aur-general] Adding AUR packages to [community] packages' provides

2011-02-25 Thread Peter Lewis
On Friday 25 February 2011 11:12:15 Lukas Fleischer wrote: Well, I'm addressing current blacklisting issues with the AUR [1]. I noticed that some of the packages in the official repos have AUR packages as provides, some of them (well, at least one of them, didn't search for more) were even

Re: [aur-general] [arch-general] Package deletion request

2011-02-14 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 14 February 2011 13:02:54 Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: On 14 February 2011 13:43, D. Can Celasun dcela...@gmail.com wrote: I've adopted, updated and reuploaded the ejecter[1] package as indicator-ejecter[2] to follow the general naming convention regarding Ayatana packages [3] . Can

Re: [aur-general] AUR Copyright

2011-02-09 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tuesday 08 February 2011 18:42:15 Felix Kaiser wrote: WRT licenses, I too think BSD would be a good choice for obvious reasons (permissive, short/simple, widely used, unversioned, compatible to most other licenses). That is, if we need a license at all. This licensing stuff always gets in

Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-09 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 09 February 2011 00:32:17 Ng Oon-Ee wrote: On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 17:57 +0100, Alexander Rødseth wrote: I would like to add that for some AUR-users, the packages is what they would have to show for if they were to apply to become a TU. As far as I know, the AUR history is not

Re: [aur-general] AUR Copyright

2011-02-07 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 07 February 2011 11:23:01 Ray Rashif wrote: 2011/2/7 Lukáš Jirkovský l.jirkov...@gmail.com: I don't think it matters whether PKGBUILDs are software or not. It never did, but now it does :) That sounds to me like saying all bash scripts have to be under GPL, because BASH is

Re: [aur-general] AUR Copyright

2011-02-07 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 07 February 2011 17:46:08 Bernardo Barros wrote: 2011/2/7 Yaro Kasear y...@marupa.net: Sure you can change licenses if you own (Hold copyright to.) all the relevant code involved. That's way OT, but I'm curious now... :-). Then if I did a BSD code that a company used in their

Re: [aur-general] TU Resignation

2011-02-07 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi Andrea, On Monday 07 February 2011 19:25:03 Andrea Scarpino wrote: Hi TUs, it's my time to leave the [community] repo. Ah! Well, thanks for all your work. More time to focus on KDE in [extra], eh? :-D I orphaned more packages in the last year and now I orphan the rest: - choqok -

Re: [aur-general] [community], [unsupported] and AUR

2011-02-05 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 03 February 2011 05:39:52 Heiko Baums wrote: Every binary repo is called something in square brackets like [core], [extra], [community] etc., which are activated or deactivated in /etc/pacman.conf, but there is no repo [unsupported]. And at least I haven't found any reference on

Re: [aur-general] Please remove packages from aur

2011-02-02 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 02 February 2011 13:07:02 white...@gmail.com wrote: please, can someone remove from aur the following packages, because related projects are discontinued and sources are not available anymore http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35691 akonadigdata-svn

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Seblu - Results.

2011-01-30 Thread Peter Lewis
On Sunday 23 January 2011 16:15:41 Peter Lewis wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2011 21:07:28 Peter Lewis wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2011 20:37:13 Seblu wrote: Tonight I decided to propose me as TU. My sponsor is Peter Lewis. I am indeed. Let the discussion period begin! The discussion

Re: [aur-general] AUR deletion button.

2011-01-26 Thread Peter Lewis
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

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Seblu - Voting open.

2011-01-23 Thread Peter Lewis
On Sunday 16 January 2011 21:07:28 Peter Lewis wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2011 20:37:13 Seblu wrote: Tonight I decided to propose me as TU. My sponsor is Peter Lewis. I am indeed. Let the discussion period begin! The discussion period has now ended and voting can begin. Please pop along

Re: [aur-general] delete request

2011-01-20 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 20 January 2011 00:18:40 member kittykatt wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Lukas Fleischer archli...@cryptocrack.dewrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 05:53:51PM -0500, jonathan wrote: please delete http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22403 as I am not developing it,

Re: [aur-general] TU Application -Thomas Hatch: Voting period

2011-01-20 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 20 January 2011 15:32:49 Ionuț Bîru wrote: The results are: yes 20 no0 abstain 8 Congratulations Tom! Welcome aboard the good ship TU! Pete.

Re: [aur-general] Changing AUR development infrastructure.

2011-01-17 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 17 January 2011 01:19:22 Loui Chang wrote: Recently I've had the idea that I should move the 'main' AUR git repo, which I have been the caretaker of to the community server where all other community and AUR development is done. This would also mean we would have to run a git daemon,

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Seblu

2011-01-16 Thread Peter Lewis
On Sunday 16 January 2011 20:37:13 Seblu wrote: Tonight I decided to propose me as TU. My sponsor is Peter Lewis. I am indeed. Let the discussion period begin! Pete.

Re: [aur-general] Please delete ttf-ms-extrafonts

2011-01-13 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 13 January 2011 17:01:42 Ng Oon-Ee wrote: On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 16:57 +0100, Stefan Husmann wrote: Am 13.01.2011 16:00, schrieb Marcel Korpel: Hi everyone, Can someone please delete ttf-ms-extrafonts [1]; it has no maintainer and as mutlu_inek said in the comments his

Re: [aur-general] delete request

2011-01-12 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tuesday 11 January 2011 21:02:31 Brad Fanella wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:18 AM, Peter Lewis ple...@aur.archlinux.org wrote: Where's Xyne when you need him? I think you mean sleep of which you speak ;-P Nope. Sorry. You're wrong. :-P Grammarians have come to the consensus

Re: [aur-general] Task[warrior]

2011-01-10 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 10 January 2011 10:26:14 Magnus Therning wrote: Does anyone know why this package does not use upstream name ? There is no way to tell this task package is Task Warrior except looking to the URI. There's some confusion on the upstream page, taskwarrior.org. Text like

Re: [aur-general] Does anyone use tdl?

2011-01-09 Thread Peter Lewis
On Saturday 08 January 2011 23:23:26 Mike Sampson wrote: [1]: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/tdl/ I use it. However, if you know better applications for the same job, please tell me. Task Warrior - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22085 +1, this is great.

Re: [aur-general] voting period for Dave Reisner

2010-12-12 Thread Peter Lewis
On Saturday 11 December 2010 20:21:53 Dave Reisner wrote: yes 29 no 0 abstain 1 Welcome in our team. Todo: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines#TODO_lis t_for_new_Trusted_Users Wow! I'm just going to play dumb and assume that the high

Re: [aur-general] [PATCH] tu-bylaws: Amend Standard Voting Procedure

2010-12-08 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 08 December 2010 04:33:09 Loui Chang wrote: Yeah, I don't have any better suggestion really, and apart from my general dislike for using whitespace to provide meaning (a la python) it's pretty clear to me. I do like to separate words by a space and paragraphs by a blank line.

Re: [aur-general] [PATCH] tu-bylaws: Amend Standard Voting Procedure

2010-12-08 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 08 December 2010 01:51:52 Kaiting Chen wrote: On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Kaiting Chen kaitocr...@gmail.com wrote: As soon as I get back from lab I'm going to put the text up on a wiki page so we can stop doing massive amounts of scrolling... --Kaiting.

Re: [aur-general] TU application - Kyle Keen

2010-12-08 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tuesday 07 December 2010 21:44:46 keenerd wrote: After much heavy thought, I withdraw my application. My apologies for the trouble. I agree with the others - please reconsider withdrawing. I believe that we could certainly do with someone with your keenness and skills on the team. I think

Re: [aur-general] [PATCH] tu-bylaws: Amend Standard Voting Procedure

2010-12-08 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 08 December 2010 12:04:22 Ronald van Haren wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Peter Lewis ple...@aur.archlinux.org wrote: While reading this, one more small thing came to mind: I wonder if we should make it clear that though *the same* proposal requires a waiting period

Re: [aur-general] [PATCH] tu-bylaws: Amend Standard Voting Procedure

2010-12-08 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 08 December 2010 13:34:53 Ronald van Haren wrote: and who determines if there is a substantial difference between the two votes (I'm talking about edge cases here)? And what exactly is this substantial difference that is required, how do we quantify it? Indeed, there are

Re: [aur-general] [PATCH] tu-bylaws: Amend Standard Voting Procedure

2010-12-08 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 08 December 2010 15:23:01 Xyne wrote: I think the passage concerning similar proposals is too vague. There is no way to define those terms in a way that is unambiguous in all cases and trying to do so is futile and condemned to a pedantic spiral. I trust the human factor to

Re: [aur-general] [PATCH] tu-bylaws: Amend Standard Voting Procedure

2010-12-08 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 09 December 2010 00:42:20 Loui Chang wrote: I've removed that passage, changed bylaws to by-laws, and changed YES / NO to YES or NO. I would prefer the non hyphenated spelling. *shrug* :-) ...and every time I've come across the word it's had an e in it: byelaw. *double shrug*

Re: [aur-general] [PATCH] tu-bylaws: Amend Standard Voting Procedure

2010-12-08 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 09 December 2010 00:45:33 Loui Chang wrote: On Wed 08 Dec 2010 11:59 -0500, Kaiting Chen wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Xyne x...@archlinux.ca wrote: Let's wait another day to get some more comments and incorporate any last changes. If it changes during the discussion

Re: [aur-general] Some packages moved from extra/community to aur

2010-12-07 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tuesday 07 December 2010 12:30:35 Seblu wrote: 2010/12/7 Cédric Girard girard.ced...@gmail.com: On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Michael Trunner mich...@trunner.de wrote: Well, it's really simple. As autofs already have 10 votes, you just need to apply to become a TU and you will be

Re: [aur-general] [PATCH] tu-bylaws: Amend Standard Voting Procedure

2010-12-07 Thread Peter Lewis
Hey, On Tuesday 07 December 2010 15:37:41 Xyne wrote: I've rewritten that section with some changes (see below). I've tried to keep the wording unambiguous and relatively simple. Note the following functional changes: * If 50% or more of all active TUs vote NO then the vote is rejected even

Re: [aur-general] [PATCH] tu-bylaws: Amend Standard Voting Procedure

2010-12-07 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tuesday 07 December 2010 16:44:36 Xyne wrote: Peter Lewis wrote: Do we require that a proposal has only yes and no as options, as well as abstain? Could a proposal present a list of options? How would this affect the voting, or should it not be allowed? (If not, I think we should state

Re: [aur-general] [PATCH] tu-bylaws: Amend Standard Voting Procedure

2010-12-07 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tuesday 07 December 2010 16:58:49 Xyne wrote: Third version: Standard Voting Procedure (SVP) describes the formal procedure used by TUs to accept or reject proposals regarding TU affairs. SVP begins with a proposal, for example the addition of a TU or an amendment to the bylaws. The

Re: [aur-general] [PATCH] tu-bylaws: Amend Standard Voting Procedure

2010-12-07 Thread Peter Lewis
Hang on, I just went through this again: On Tuesday 07 December 2010 16:58:49 Xyne wrote: Third version: Standard Voting Procedure (SVP) describes the formal procedure used by TUs to accept or reject proposals regarding TU affairs. SVP begins with a proposal, for example the addition of a

Re: [aur-general] [PATCH] tu-bylaws: Amend Standard Voting Procedure

2010-12-07 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tuesday 07 December 2010 19:02:59 Xyne wrote: Peter Lewis wrote: This means that we cannot override (A) in the rest of the byelaws. I can imagine that we might want to create something requiring (say) a 2/3rds majority for some type of serious proposal at some point... How about

Re: [aur-general] meaning of abstain

2010-12-07 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tuesday 07 December 2010 20:53:40 Kaiting Chen wrote: On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Thorsten Töpper atsut...@freethoughts.dewrote: ... I'm stuck between an Abstain and a No and I guess some other TUs are also thinking about how they should handle this... You can stop being stuck;

Re: [aur-general] Fix the Bylaws?

2010-12-05 Thread Peter Lewis
On Sunday 05 December 2010 23:14:14 Loui Chang wrote: On Sun 05 Dec 2010 22:52 +, Peter Lewis wrote: I'd support some kind of reworking of the quorum for TU votes, since as Kaitling points out, missing a meeting due to weather, car problems, etc. doesn't really apply (though

Re: [aur-general] orphan request

2010-12-02 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 02 December 2010 12:07:59 Kaiting Chen wrote: As a general policy we wait a week before orphaning after you have contacted the maintainer expressing your desire to adopt to package. At least two weeks would be my minimum. It's perfectly possible that someone is just on holiday /

Re: [aur-general] orphan request

2010-12-02 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 02 December 2010 12:56:37 Ray Rashif wrote: On 2 December 2010 20:48, Peter Lewis ple...@aur.archlinux.org wrote: On Thursday 02 December 2010 12:07:59 Kaiting Chen wrote: As a general policy we wait a week before orphaning after you have contacted the maintainer expressing your

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