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Hi Everyone!
I got into Arch recently just after Ubuntu 9.10 was released and I'm lovin it! I want to give back to the community, but not being a programmer, my options are kinda limited... So i figure that maybe I can become a package maintainer in the AUR? But I don't know what I am supposed to do, so I'm kinda wary as I dont want to end up doing anything stupid >.>
So what exactly is required of a package maintainer? What will I have to do? I couldn't really find anything from google and the article in the wiki is... well... pointless
I'm enlisting in the USAF next year so I dont know how long i'll be able to do it for but I'm gonna try and give what I can while I can!
Thanks!
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The maintainer keeps the package up-to-date and provides support for people who can't build the package for whatever reason. So basically, if I whine to you that your stuff doesn't work on my computer, you'll have to do what it takes to make it run. That's rarely a problem, though, because people give helpful comments and sometimes provide updated PKGBUILDS by themselves.
Also, when you don't have time for a package anymore, you can always orphan it (so it is without a maintainer again). It's not too much work if you have just one to maintain, so just go ahead.
Edit: Hm... After a rant like that, I should probably adopt a package as well...
Last edited by Runiq (2009-11-27 15:20:36)
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Hm... After a rant like that, I should probably adopt a package as well...
How's my programming? Call 1-800-DEV-NULL
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I find it interesting that my kernel's maintainer doesn't even use ArchLinux.
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