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pouar

Member

Registered: 2011-11-03

Posts: 55

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Would like to help maintaining repos.

I've noticed many software packagea in the official repositories have been out of date for quite some time and are not even in the testing repos. If you need more developers to help maintain them and keep them up-to-date, I'd like to help.

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karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Would like to help maintaining repos.

You need to become at least a TU to manage packages n [community].
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AU … Guidelines

Last edited by karol (2011-12-05 03:14:40)

Allan

Pacman

From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,648

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Re: Would like to help maintaining repos.

[core] - 24/352 = 6.8% out-of-date (most in [testing] already)
[extra] - 180/4790 = 3.8%
[community] - 79/4039 = 1.9%

So it is not that bad...    if a package has been out-of-date for quite some time, the you can post an updated PKGBUILD to the arch-general mailing list saying that you have tested it and all is fine and someone may update it for you.

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iTwenty

Member

From: India

Registered: 2010-10-24

Posts: 63

Website

Re: Would like to help maintaining repos.

[core] - 24/352 = 6.8% out-of-date (most in [testing] already)
[extra] - 180/4790 = 3.8%
[community] - 79/4039 = 1.9%

Sorry for going OT, but could you elaborate on how you obtained those figures?

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Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Would like to help maintaining repos.

[core] - 24/352 = 6.8% out-of-date (most in [testing] already)
[extra] - 180/4790 = 3.8%
[community] - 79/4039 = 1.9%

Sorry for going OT, but could you elaborate on how you obtained those figures?

They are from the developper's dashboard (not accessible to users).