What does a dev needs to add a program to official repos?

[Riemaru_Karurosu]

I want to ask what does a dev needs to add a program to be installable with pacman, not only with the AUR.

[winnie]

Become a trusted Arch Linux package maintainer, and make sure you have a lot of time (and hair) to spare. (Or convince a Trusted User to adopt your package.)

It needs to receive enough votes, regardless, and adhere to certain policies about being in the official repositories. (To be “promoted” from AUR to Community repository.)

(Think of how Apple has “standards” for its iOS App Store.)

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EDIT: The reverse is also true, and there are several examples in the past where a package in the Community repository is demoted (or dropped) into the AUR because the Trusted User no longer wishes to maintain it and/or other technical reasons.

[Yochanan]

See also How to get a PKGBUILD into the community repository?

As far as the Manjaro community repo is concerned, please see:

About the Feature Request category

Share with us any innovative ideas you might have. Please read before requesting the addition of a package to the Manjaro repos: Be aware: unless there’s an obvious need (or e.g. the package is unique) the answer will probably be “no”, and especially so if it’s already in the AUR. Maintaining packages take a lot of time. Adding a package is not a one-off event and requires work by the package maintainer. Therefore, unless the package maintainer uses the software it’s very unlikely they will …