On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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... > No I'm not sure, but from I've read, I remember it saying that the packages that the community votes for, are considered for inclusion in the community repo. -- Jonathan Vasquez
