On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 20:51:37 +0530 Aniket Pradhan <aniket17133@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Govind, and Everyone! > > Thanks for your feedback. > > Your arguments are on point, and I agree with you on the fact that the > ideas do not apply to Arch. > > If we can think of some better ideas (which apply to Arch, like the > reproducible builds or the CLI tool as you discussed) we would need > people to step up and mentor these ideas out of their free time. > Moreover, if Arch is willing to include some community tools (who > decides which tools should be included), we might get some more cool > ideas, but in the end, we would also need someone to mentor the idea. > > In the end, it all boils down to the availability of mentors. and > ideas. > > I also had this cool idea, where developers (who will act as mentors) > can pitch in their ideas for community packages and select students > through GSoC. This will provide them with the necessary help in > developing the tool. However, then it would not be a > "community-driven" package, would it? > > There can be several flaws to this suggestion, but as Govind said, it > would be amazing if others can share their opinion on this topic. > The only thing I can think of, which applies to Arch is implementing remakepkg features in pacman. I was going to add those in when I got around to it, but it's also worth doing for Google Summer of Code. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=236076
