On Sun, Sep 21, 2025 at 12:11:15PM +0200, Cayetano Santos wrote: > > >dim. 21 sept. 2025 at 10:46, Steve George <[email protected]> wrote: > > I’d say that when you contribute a new package, you’re more or less > expected to take care of it afterwards. (...)
In practise, it only happens sometimes. For first-time contributors in particular my impression is that they may not stick around. It's different as contributors grow and become more committed from what I've seen - particularly those who have signed up for a team I think. > > [0] My personal opinion is we have far too many already and both developers > > and users > > would be better off with a more focused set. And that we should implement > > the ArchLinux > > like user community repository which would provide a place for a wider set. > > [1] https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/fwknop#default, > > Regarding this point, remember that ancillary channels (Aur like) > would’n benefit from substitutes, unless you set up a dedicated server. > > That being said, and being an Arch user, I tend to agree: core + extra > packages to concentrate on in priority (part of releases), with > user (mostly leaf) packages on top of that, with support of the > community. > > Otherwise, it is beyond my understanding how to keep the pace on keeping > up to date 30k packages, which roughly means 30k commits per month. (...) Well in a way AUR shows a good dividing line by not providing substitutes (binary packages) for these 'community' maintained packages. If it's important enough that users are downloading/building it enough then there's a case to promote it into the core distribution's set. The flaw in that argument being we don't have any stats on what users install so wouldn't actually know heh - but in principle ... Steve / Futurile
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