On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/01/2016 02:20 PM, Diego Viola wrote: >> Well, I understand maintainers are busy, but it is your job as a >> maintainer to communicate effectively, if I put some package up for >> others to use it, it is MY responsibility to tell users I won't be >> able to update or respond quickly. >> >> You can't expect all your users to maintain their own PKGBUILD for >> outdated packages just because some maintainer is busy or being lazy. > > As an AUR maintainer, I try to update as soon as I can. And I think I do > a pretty good job with that. > > But not everyone can, because not everyone has the time. And 10 days is > not a lot of time to allow for Real Life interference. > > Standard Arch Linux policy is "don't bug the TUs, they will get around > to updating things when they have the chance". > > More TUs is the only conceivable solution to the problem of "the current > group of TUs don't, as a group, have the spare time to update all > packages, immediately upon being flagged out of date". > So, what exactly is your problem with the TUs having a life out of Arch > Linux (which they have no obligation to and contribute to on a purely > voluntary basis)? No, I'm not saying that, please let's not make this personal, it's not. I'm also OK compiling my own bitcoin-qt or whatever, I'm just concerned there are many outdated packages as of late, and what makes Arch so special to many people is the rolling release part and up to date packages. > > Personally, I think as a general rule of thumb the TUs do a great job at > maintaining a distro that is significantly less obsolete than the > majority of other distros. And I don't get upset when a relative handful > of packages lag behind *less than on the aforementioned alternative > distros*. > > -- > Eli Schwartz Thanks, Diego
