Arch User Script Repository?

As I was browsing through the sticky, which is full of useful stuff, I found searching this ever longer and more disorganized thread for a script for a particular purpose difficult.
Wouldn't it be great to have an organized repository for these contributions?
What I have in mind is a user-managed wiki with categorized tag organization, such that scripts could be organized by tags like:
Coding: bash; python; perl; etc...
Purpose: batch file management; network administration; setting toggle; etc...
Length: one-liner; script and config file; multiple files; etc..
And also rated with tags like:
Quality: best-practice syntax; obsolete coding; etc... *
Portability: POSIX compliant; bash only; depends on something; etc...
Where available, it would also be convenient to link to a relevant post in the forum.
* Not for criticism, but to suggest improvements and have them implemented.
Last edited by quequotion (2014-05-19 03:50:40)

karol wrote:Just like configuring your programs. If you're careful, great things will happen. if you're not careful, well, it was nice knowing you ;-)
A fact I'm all too familiar with, which is why I'd love to see a "comments" section for each program with availabke dotfiles. Still, that's not the kind of scary I meant; that table is confusing. It's too much information at once; lists usernames I don't recognize and program names I half recognize; some of the program names are clickable and others not for no immediately apparent reason; clicking each username takes me to their repositories where I'm not certain that the list of programs I'd seen before actually reflects what I see now. Scary.
There are relatively few Arch-centric tools and configs, so why not use e.g. http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse ?
Instead of a script-repo, why not improve upstream documentation or send patches to fix bugs / add features? I think internet search engines do a good-enough job of making well-described pieces of code possible to find. It may be faster to create something from scratch than to try to categorize and polish various scripts and oneliners no-one may be interested in.
Indeed, there are already plenty of resources for scripts; I'd just like to see one based on the arch community's contributions which, while not necessarily arch-specific, tend to use better coding practice, more intuitive design, and better documentation (especially when supported by the archwiki) than much of what I can find on google.
Improving upstream is great, but not always possible. User's scripts may do things that are useful for everybody or only serve a particular niche interest, although that niche may include a few dozen people. A script may do something that doesn't conform to it's upstream components' design but isn't woth forking over.
Just like custom dotfiles may be worth sharing but not officially endorsing, there are reasons an individual's scripts may be worth sharing but not merging upstream. On the other hand, a well publicised and refined script that solves a particular problem better than anything else could garner enough attention to inspire someone to convert it to an actual program or merge it's functionality into an existing one, just as a particularly brilliant and well-known configuration may supplant an obsolete default.
Regardless, aside from the hosting server, this should be entirely user-managed and voluntary. The intention is to provide a place to share and improve scripts that serve the needs of arch users in a (more or less) equivalent way that the AUR allows them to share and improve packages.
I'm going to set aside a little time to work on the infrastructure that would make this work. I need the practice anyway.

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ARM sounds interesting, but two potential problems come to my mind: 1) as described in the wiki, the original ARM has already been closed, if that happens again I won't have a repository and a lot of maintenance work is to be issued. 2) If I will just set my mirrorlist to a fixed date I will not be able to get any security updates (also, see my reply to vostok4).
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I will have a look at CRUX and Darwin as you have suggested.
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@drcouzelis:
I have had a look at the Arch-based distros but I think none of them are really what I want (which is a LTS version of Archlinux ). I think I might try out a LTS Mint as soon as I have assembled my new computer.
@teateawhy:
I have not used Debian yet, but as far as I understand the release cycles are quite short and there is no LTS of particular releases. In your opinion, why is Debian closer to Arch than the other suggestions?
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