What happened to the comments?

toxygen · 2010-03-24 15:12:05

I searched forums, aur, and wiki, and maybe it's my new smoking habit or my lack of sleep, but what happened to the comments on AUR? specificially the firefox-pgo packages (firefox-pgo, firefox-pgo-beta, firefox-pgo-minefield)? I swear they were there two days ago. now, all gone...

i am using firefox-3.7a3, i figured maybe a script or something had made them disappear, but no, went back to 3.6.2, disabled all scripts/addons, still not there. did i miss a news item about this?
and if they are hidden somewhere, can someone kindly point me to them?

Thanks!

.:B:. · 2010-03-24 15:30:31

I'm wondering too. Went to check a comment on one of my packages and I was quite surprised to see nothing at all, while there used to be comments on the page. More than one .

moljac024 · 2010-03-24 15:32:53

Allan has been up to something, it seems.

ngoonee · 2010-03-24 15:47:31

I'm actually quite liking things as is now. kernel26-ice was taking ages to load....

.:B:. · 2010-03-24 16:15:46

Yip. Definitely has Allan's signature all over it.

His wife should keep him away from that computer...

vinneh · 2010-03-24 17:19:29

Oh, I thought I was going crazy..

toxygen · 2010-03-24 17:29:21

so Allan broke it? I thought that only happened with arch-related distributions...

Daenyth · 2010-03-24 17:29:55

Louipc had to remove all comments due to encoding issues when updating the database -- see aur-general for more details.

SanskritFritz · 2010-03-25 22:14:09

any chance to get the comments back? they were _very_ useful...

Allan · 2010-03-25 22:20:26

.:B:. wrote:

Yip. Definitely has Allan's signature all over it.
His wife should keep him away from that computer...

She would like to but I am an addict.

fsckd · 2010-03-26 00:50:57

WHO classifies archlinux as a schedule II drug.

falconindy · 2010-03-26 01:01:28

I've deleted existing comments from the AUR.
I ran into a problem juggling the encodings, which was the problem I was
trying to fix. The aur should properly display utf8 in comments now
though.
It may be possible to restore most of the old comments, but that's
something that we'd have to look into later.
Cheers!

For anyone too lazy to dig through the list. I was wondering about this too.

SanskritFritz · 2010-03-26 09:11:41

But why care so much about the encoding? Most comments are in plain english, and if I see a hungarian message with garbled characters, I still can figure out what it is about. Losing the comments makes AUR much less usable, I rely on the comments when I try to decide, whether I want to upgrade a package or not. And this is more important than having ti all properly encoded. You can fix the encoding while the comments are still shown. Why delete them?

Xyne · 2010-03-26 10:43:48

.:B:. wrote:

Yip. Definitely has Allan's signature all over it.
His wife should keep him away from that computer...

She would rather have him break Arch than something around the house (including the baby).

Allan · 2010-03-26 10:47:31

That is very high on the list of things not break...

tigrmesh · 2010-03-27 15:12:45

Allan wrote:

That is very high on the list of things not break...

Baby? Congratulations!

Gen2ly · 2010-03-28 19:57:57

SanskritFritz wrote:

any chance to get the comments back? they were _very_ useful...

Agreed. The most useful comments were a lot of the times the maintainer didn't have time (or no longer uses Arch) and new PKGBUILDs were posted. Also I found the note (use pastebin) to be non-considering. Not only were AUR comments lost without comment, but now we are being told that we weren't doing comments right. Not real happy about things ,hope we get them back.

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fukawi2 · 2010-03-28 22:53:01

It may be possible to restore most of the old comments, but that's
something that we'd have to look into later.

lolwut? We've lost a big part of Arch Linux's history and we "may" be able to get it back? wtf?

dcc24 · 2010-03-29 07:16:21

Agreed. I think comments are as important as packages themselves and restoring them should be the number 1 priority.

SanskritFritz · 2010-03-29 08:00:31

This issue needs more attention maybe? Should we start a poll? How can we help otherwise?

Allan · 2010-03-29 08:08:17

Polls just get closed for having empty posts....

See http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 08532.html for what help is needed.

cl10k · 2010-03-29 08:16:29

Please find a way to bring the comments back! The usefulness of AUR severely suffers now....

litemotiv · 2010-03-29 09:00:26

functionality of the aur comment system was severely lacking though (no pagination, no proper code layout etc), so wouldn't this be a good time to stop using it altogether and start using the forums for that?

dcc24 · 2010-03-29 09:32:05

I think AUR comments should be separate from the forums. It would be an inconvenience at the very least.

JonnyJD · 2010-03-29 10:17:29

Are you guys kidding me?? Lost comments is nearly as bad as lost packages.

I had important comments in nearly every package. Sometimes that only some svn/git versions work properly, some notes about similar packages, notes about upstream bugs that will be fixed.

The first "this does not work" comments come in for my packages and I also didn't save all the information separately.

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