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FS#11509 - Show packages you contributed (not own in My Packages)

Attached to Project: AUR web interface
Opened by Ismael Carnales (void) - Wednesday, 17 September 2008, 12:24 GMT
Last edited by Loui Chang (louipc) - Wednesday, 17 December 2008, 17:25 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Backend
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 1.5.1
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Right now My Packages only lists the packages you've uploaded, it would be nice if it listed (in a separte way) all the packages you're contributor to.
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Closed by  Loui Chang (louipc)
Wednesday, 17 December 2008, 17:25 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Loui Chang (louipc) - Sunday, 21 September 2008, 04:59 GMT
My Packages shows the packages that you're currently maintaining.
If you want to see packages that you made the initial submissions
you can search 'by submitter'. Seeing a history of contributors to
a package is a whole other game and would require some kind of SCM
back-end. Something that's not likely to be implemented in the
current incarnation of AUR.
Comment by Ismael Carnales (void) - Sunday, 21 September 2008, 06:43 GMT
What I like to have is a list of packages i'm listed as as Contributor, search for pidgin-light and you'll se what I mean. But as you say, maybe this feat is not for this incarnation of AUR
Comment by Callan Barrett (wizzomafizzo) - Sunday, 28 September 2008, 15:34 GMT
I guess there's nothing we can do about this bar parsing the pkgbuilds for it. If we did parse the pkgbuilds it would be pretty hit and miss since not a lot of people use the contributor tag correctly.
Comment by Ismael Carnales (void) - Sunday, 28 September 2008, 17:35 GMT
You don't parse the PKGBUILDS right now? how do you get the information on dependencies and sources?, maybe a form of "defensive" parsing of the contributors can be implemented (if it's in the correct format list them, etc)
Comment by Callan Barrett (wizzomafizzo) - Sunday, 28 September 2008, 18:05 GMT
Sorry, we do already parse the PKGBUILDs. I'm just saying parsing that specific bit of information would probably be pretty hit and miss because the contributor tag isn't as official as the other variables.
Comment by Loui Chang (louipc) - Tuesday, 30 September 2008, 22:12 GMT
# Contributor: is not really a reliable way to tell who the contributors
were since the current maintainer could easily remove those comments.

You might be able to use google to search for PKGBUILDs with your name.
Try doing a google search with "site:http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ Ismael"
Comment by Ismael Carnales (void) - Wednesday, 01 October 2008, 05:40 GMT
I wasn't talking of a feature made for me specially :) not everyone will know how to search in the site looking for their names.

But I agree that is diffcult to parse wrong formatted contributor lines and the feature that i'm proposing is not so great :), maybe it could be more usefull if anytime soon the major of the packages in the AUR have multiple contributors, not now.

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