[manjaro-dev] I'm back, and a couple of questions

[Philip Müller]

Hi Kendell,

may answers in-line.

Am 06.05.2016 um 12:14 schrieb kendell clark:
> hi all
> My grandfather died last thursday, so I've been dealing with a lot of
> family drama. The funeral was this monday and I've just now caught up on
> all of my messages. 

I'm sorry to hear that. All the best to you and your family

> I've now got all my free time back so can continue
> making new packages for manjaro and keeping up to date on the ones I
> help with, like the tintin alteraeon sound pack. I had a couple of
> questions though. How would I go about staying up to date on the various
> packages I have for manjaro? I know how to stay up to date on the tintin
> sound pack and espeak ng, because I'm on the mailing list for espeak and
> I'm on alter aeon all the time so get info about updates. I've just
> packaged telegram-purple, a package that adds support for the telegram
> protocol to pidgin. I added it to community  because a lot of people use
> telegram, a lot of our sonar users, so I thought it would be a good idea
> to make it available on the sonar image by default. I don't know if
> telegram-purple has a mailing list or not, but I can try to find out.

Well I check time to time in github for it:
https://github.com/majn/telegram-purple/releases

> Would it be possible for me to get an @manjaro.org email address I can
> use for all of these package lists so I'm not flooding my personal inbox
> with even more mail? I get about 200 messages a day on my coffeekingms
> account, and that's about as much as I can go through at one time lol.
> If this is possible, I'll make sure to subscribe to only package mailing
> lists using that address, all my other mailing lists will be going to
> this address. 

You already have one. I just resetted your password once more. Check
your inbox.

> I hope I didn't step on anyone by uploading the telegram
> package, since it is installable via the aur. In my experience trying to
> explain to people how to install from the aur goes well, but I added it
> mainly for the convenience of our users, so they'd have a complete list
> of popular protocols in pidgin out of the box.

Kendell, you don't need to ask us for permission to add a new package if
Sonar needs it. All the packages you maintain should be logical and have
proper licenses. As long as you don't distribute some illegal it is all
fine.

greez
Phil