[arch-dev-public] Moving packages into community

[Ray Rashif]

On 12 February 2014 03:57, Sébastien Luttringer <seblu at seblu.net> wrote:
> On 11/02/2014 14:39, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote:
>> On 02/11/2014 02:37 AM, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
>>> - Send a message on aur-general at al.org
>>> - Write some lines in the AUR package comments
>>> - Open a BR for inclusion
>>> - Push his new package to community
>
> This is a short list of well known places where you can find hints that
> someone is already working on moving your package.
> I did *not* suggest that you should do one of the previous examples.
>
> I'm not telling you to open a BR before moving a package. I'm too lazy.
> But if you move a package, it's a good idea to check if there is bug
> report opened (or closed) about it. Like a feature request[1].
>
>>> - Test his modification
>>> - Start his communication with upstream
>>> - Request some feedback.
>
> All these bullets was to justify, that sometimes, you need more time
> than usual before pushing the binary package. That why we should check
> the previous places before inclusion.
>
>> Address your issues to TU who modified your package.
> Be sure that was the first thing I have done.
>
> However that's not the first time I see this happening during the
> inclusion process, that motivated me to share this point on the list and
> add this "obvious" recommendation in our guidelines.

Agree on all points, and have updated the wiki edit to make the
suggestions clearer:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines&diff=296958&oldid=296802


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