On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 17:31 +0800, gan lu wrote: > In my opinion, Arch is the best distro can really do bleeding edge > with stablility, thank devs for their excellent work. However due to > some reasion (saying shortage of time, man power, instersts etc), some > applications can't be updated in time. We can certainly flag it out > of date in the web page easily, but is there a way we can record when > it was flaged at the first time and count how many people (useres) > want to flag it (like enable people to vote, but of course only send > a remind email at the first/person )? > Just my idea, I am not a programmer so don't blame me not to do it > real by myself. Once a package is flagged, it's flagged and it stays flagged. The maintainer gets a mail about the flagged package. The first thing I stated isn't actually true though: we can unflag packages, which we'll certainly do when people think development versions of packages like GTK are newer than the stable version in our repository. This happens on a daily basis when GNOME development releases are pushed to the FTP for example, or in cases when people think gnome-common should be 2.22.0 because GNOME is at 2.22.x (while there's only gnome-common-2.20.0 on the upstream FTP).
