On 05/01/12 07:14, Jonathan Vasquez wrote: > On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Karol Blazewicz > <karol.blazewicz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Jonathan Vasquez >> <jvasquez1011@xxxxxxxxx> 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...
