Re: Proposal about AUR affairs

2023-12-11 Thread Abraham S.A.H.
I was following this thread and I just have enough time to say that I am totally agree with Polarian. Even comments are not required if you don't need others to necessarily read your words to maintainer. Just email him! It will be threaded by your mail server automatically. -- Best Regards, Ab

Re: Proposal about AUR affairs

2023-12-11 Thread Aaron Liu
Sorry about the double sends, I don't know what happened either... It seems like Thunderbird (or Gmail) randomly drops received emails before having me receive them a long time after. On 2023/12/11 16:07, Polarian wrote: but whos going to implement them? That's precisely why I think we shoul

Re: Proposal about AUR affairs

2023-12-11 Thread Aaron Liu
There aren't much expected to be reported at one time, but it's always better to have a more organized view of them. Features aren't bad if they don't get in the way of anything, and this one doesn't make the experience any worse at all. I also think it makes it better in terms of a better view

Re: Proposal about AUR affairs

2023-12-11 Thread Aaron Liu
On 2023/12/11 8:29, Polarian wrote: Overcomplicated, and involves even more places to check for issues. Comment section is good enough for this. It becomes too many points of failure and too much mental overhead, juggling issues, comments, emails... its too much... and is why if I do choose to m

Re: Proposal about AUR affairs

2023-12-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2023-12-11 at 13:29 +, Polarian wrote: > > 5. Currently,to evaluate whether a AUR package is eligible to move in > > Arch Linux official packages (extra repo), It only depend on votes > > and popularity and whether there is a maintainer willing to pick it > > up. However, those factors

Re: Proposal about AUR affairs

2023-12-11 Thread Lime In a Jacket (Aaron Liu)
>> 3. The issue and affairs related to which upstream software is >> included and which PKGBUILD git repo is selected, goes to issues >> section of aur-meta. For packaging specific problems, it goes to the >> AUR package git repo. > > Overcomplicated, and involves even more places to check for i

Re: Proposal about AUR affairs

2023-12-11 Thread Óscar García Amor
El dom, 10-12-2023 a las 12:03 +0100, Jelle van der Waa escribió: > I understand the demand for having a proper issue tracker and proper > merge requests. That's the point. What the AUR really lacks is precisely this. A complete system of merge requests and issues, so that the packages are reall

Re: R: Proposal about AUR affairs

2023-12-10 Thread Aaron Liu
I mean, with differently named AUR packages that provide the same thing, that sort of already is a thing. -- Cheers, Aᴀʀᴏɴ OpenPGP_0x4E85967FC7C436BE.asc Description: OpenPGP public key OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Proposal about AUR affairs

2023-12-10 Thread Rein Fernhout (Levitating)
On Sun, 10 Dec 2023 at 23:46, Samuele Cistaro - samuele.cist...@studio.unibo.it wrote: > > (Hi there, it's my first mailing list post ever) > > Maybe the solution could be a multi-PKGBUILD system where you can choose > which one to use, based on various criteria > However, I am afraid that this w

Re: Proposal about AUR affairs

2023-12-10 Thread tippfehlr
On 2023-12-10 12:03, Jelle van der Waa wrote: I understand the demand for having a proper issue tracker and proper merge requests. But splitting the information in two places is a no no for me and makes the whole situation rather confusing. Is there a way to “disown” packages in GitLab, e.g. r

Re: Proposal about AUR affairs

2023-12-10 Thread Rein Fernhout (Levitating)
> There is indeed a lack of Pull Requests, which would make it vastly > easier to contribute. It would be interesting if someone can figure out > how easy it is to implement that into the AUR. Typically one would just make a patch file and link to it in a comment. Even if the owner does not apply

Re: R: Proposal about AUR affairs

2023-12-10 Thread Jonathan Grotelüschen
Hi Bjoern, have a look at the general guidelines for mailing lists [1]. -- tippfehlr [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/General_guidelines#Mailing_lists

R: Proposal about AUR affairs

2023-12-10 Thread Samuele Cistaro - samuele.cist...@studio.unibo.it
uh, hope you solve Da: StealthMode Hu Inviato: domenica 10 dicembre 2023 21:13 A: Samuele Cistaro - samuele.cist...@studio.unibo.it Cc: Bjoern Franke ; arch-general@lists.archlinux.org Oggetto: Re: Proposal about AUR affairs It is not your fault Friend

Re: Proposal about AUR affairs

2023-12-10 Thread StealthMode Hu
ealthMode Hu > *Inviato:* domenica 10 dicembre 2023 20:05 > *A:* Samuele Cistaro - samuele.cist...@studio.unibo.it < > samuele.cist...@studio.unibo.it> > *Cc:* Bjoern Franke ; arch-general@lists.archlinux.org > > *Oggetto:* Re: Proposal about AUR affairs > > I did

R: Proposal about AUR affairs

2023-12-10 Thread Samuele Cistaro - samuele.cist...@studio.unibo.it
staro - samuele.cist...@studio.unibo.it Cc: Bjoern Franke ; arch-general@lists.archlinux.org Oggetto: Re: Proposal about AUR affairs I did not sign up for anything with you.Please pull the server IP traffic logs for this email / signup.Cross reference whatever time on your system logs that this email wa

Re: Proposal about AUR affairs

2023-12-10 Thread StealthMode Hu
nica 10 dicembre 2023 13:52 > *A:* arch-general@lists.archlinux.org > *Oggetto:* Re: Proposal about AUR affairs > > Hi, > > > There is indeed a lack of Pull Requests, which would make it vastly > > easier to contribute. It would be interesting if someone can figure out

R: Proposal about AUR affairs

2023-12-10 Thread Samuele Cistaro - samuele.cist...@studio.unibo.it
joern Franke Inviato: domenica 10 dicembre 2023 13:52 A: arch-general@lists.archlinux.org Oggetto: Re: Proposal about AUR affairs Hi, > There is indeed a lack of Pull Requests, which would make it vastly > easier to contribute. It would be interesting if someone can figure out > how

Re: Proposal about AUR affairs

2023-12-10 Thread Bjoern Franke
Hi, There is indeed a lack of Pull Requests, which would make it vastly easier to contribute. It would be interesting if someone can figure out how easy it is to implement that into the AUR. this would indeed make things easier, when some AUR user has a fix for a problem etc. This is not a

Re: Proposal about AUR affairs

2023-12-10 Thread Jelle van der Waa
Hi, On 09-12-2023 14:18, Evan Greenup wrote: Hello, AUR is a unique feature for Arch Linux (include derived distros). It significantly expand the Arch ecosystem. However, for the current infrastructure and workflow for AUR, there are some drawbacks. 1. Difficult to feedback and difficult to

Re: Proposal about AUR affairs

2023-12-09 Thread Aaron Liu
For 1., comments on AUR packages exist. You don't have to manually send emails. -- Cheers, Aᴀʀᴏɴ OpenPGP_0x4E85967FC7C436BE.asc Description: OpenPGP public key OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Proposal about AUR affairs

2023-12-09 Thread Morten Linderud
I love the proposal, and funny enough: It was actually one of the original proposals of the rewritten aurweb v3 when it was moved to the git backend. On Sat, Dec 09, 2023 at 01:18:57PM +, Evan Greenup wrote: > I have some ideas to resolve or mitigate the problems above. > > 1. Create a git re

Proposal about AUR affairs

2023-12-09 Thread Evan Greenup
Hello, AUR is a unique feature for Arch Linux (include derived distros). It significantly expand the Arch ecosystem. However, for the current infrastructure and workflow for AUR, there are some drawbacks. 1. Difficult to feedback and difficult to contribute (to already existed package). If h