[arch-general] Newbies in Arch [WAS: Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver]

[Allan McRae]

On 05/01/12 07:14, Jonathan Vasquez wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Karol Blazewicz
> <karol.blazewicz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Jonathan Vasquez
>> <jvasquez1011 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> That's how democracy works. By listening to it's citizens.
>>> Same goes with the AUR, and when people vote for packages
>>> for inclusion into the community repo
>>
>> Errr, no. It's still up to devs and TUs to include a package in the repos.
>> Also https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Forum_Etiquette#Respect_The_Staff
>> Members of The Forum Team have been chosen for their ability to
>> exercise consistently good judgment and shall have the final say. Note
>> that this forum is not run as a democracy.
> 
> Never said the entire community was a democracy, I did say thought
> that like a democracy people vote for the packages to be included.
> You are right, that the Trusted Users have the final say on what
> packages get included, I never said otherwise. We obviously can't let
> everyone in the community have read/write access to the community
> repo,
> but the packages that the community members voted for in the AUR, are
> being looked at by the Trusted Users. That's not a problem to me, and
> if anything is a sign of a Representative Democracy. In the AUR aspect
> specifically.
> 

Are you sure TUs pay attention to votes (apart from the minimum required
number)?  I always just pulled the packages I wanted...