[aur-general] Trusted User Application

[Thomas Dziedzic]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Jonathan Conder <j at skurvy.no-ip.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 07:24 -0500, Thomas Dziedzic wrote:
> > Going through the bug reports, it seems that you have a keen eye and
> don't
> > let bugs go unnoticed.
>
> Thanks :)
>
> > That said, I am a little bothered by the amount of packages you do
> maintain
> > currently in the aur which is only 6.
> >
> > Since you do have such a small amount of packages, I will ask, what are
> your
> > goals after you become a TU?
>
> Fair enough. The main reason I maintain only those packages is that
> everything else I use from the AUR already has a maintainer. Becoming a
> TU would presumably allow me to adopt other people's packages and put
> them in community. Also, MythTV + plugins makes up 12 packages already.
>
> Anyway, I just saw your second email. With that vague list I wasn't
> talking about the AUR, but rather packages that could be adopted within
> the repos, like MythTV is at the moment. I'm not really sure what those
> are exactly (or if there are any), hence the lack of specifics.
>
> Here is a longer list of AUR packages that I could possibly pick up:
>
> bin32-skype (if policy allows)
> desmume
> fbsplash
> fbsplash-extras
> fbsplash-theme-arch-black
> fbsplash-themes-arch-banner
> gap-math*
> gnome-colors-icon-theme
> gnome-packagekit
> gummi
> lightning
> mediatomb[-svn]
> myththeme-blue-abstract*
> nautilus-makepkg*
> nspluginwrapper-debian
> nspluginwrapper-flash
> packagekit
> pacman-glib
> python-poppler
>
> I've starred the ones that aren't that popular, but are interesting to
> me personally. Also, I'm not ready to release PackageKit-related stuff
> quite yet, but I would hope that it would be reasonably popular when I
> make a proper announcement.
>
> Jonathan
>
> P.S. Thanks Allan
>
>
Thanks. +1 from me