On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Niels Horn <niels.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Deak, Ferenc <ferenc.d...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Niels Horn <niels.h...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> In the end - statistics or voting or whatever - the resulting numbers >>> cannot be accurate and might even be counter-productive. >>> I don't remember seeing any other distro having a similar counting or >>> voting system - at least the ones I visit regulary. >>> >> >> Archlinux has "official" repos: core, extra, community. These are >> binary repos. And >> there is a slackbuilds.org style repository called AUR, which has only >> build-scripts. >> AUR has a voting system, and if a package has enough votes, than it is >> moved to the community binary repo. >> >> By the way one more nice thing in AUR, is that there is a "mini forum" >> for every package, >> where anybody can write, something like: >> "Hey there is a newer version of this package, please update" >> or a packager can report the status of the package: >> "I know there is a newer version, but I have problems with it, please >> be patient" >> or >> "I know there is a newer version, but the update would break another >> package in the repo" >> >> it would be nice to have something similar... >> >> fdeak > > Yes, the AUR system is nice and the comments can be helpful. > To vote and to comment you need to be a registered user, though. > All this requires extra administrative tasks... >
What about a traditional forum software having one thread for every package? It can resolve the above mentioned communication tasks. fdeak _______________________________________________ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives - http://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ FAQ - http://slackbuilds.org/faq/
