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At least having the package repo in a git repo removes the biggest problem (IMO) with Chocolatey, that a package owner would abandon it then never update it. No
by open-paren 6y ago
At least having the package repo in a git repo removes the biggest problem (IMO) with Chocolatey, that a package owner would abandon it then never update it. Now, a package can be updated by anyone through a PR.
However, whoever maintains the git repo (Kevin Larkin and some others) is likely to be overwhelmed quickly.
- techntoke 6y agoThat is sort of how Chocolatey works already. You can modify any of their abandoned packages and submit a request to become owner. They still need to have admins or package authors maintaining packages though in order to ensure the hashes are correct. Otherwise if anyone can make a change then it will become ripe with viruses and malware.