He gets a +1 from me on bug hunting alone... Me and Ionut could use the help! :P
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Laurent Carlier <[email protected]>wrote: > Le mardi 17 août 2010 04:44:58, Jonathan Conder a écrit : > > Hi everyone, > > > > I would like to apply to become a Trusted User. Ionuț/wonder has kindly > > agreed to sponsor me. Anyway, here is some info about me: > > > > Who am I? > > My name is Jonathan Conder, from Auckland, New Zealand. I'm currently a > > full-time student studying Maths and Computer Science (among other > > things). I've been using Linux since early 2008, after a bit of > > distro-hopping I moved to Arch, and was very impressed by the wiki and > > the degree of control I gained over my system. My forum username is > > PirateJonno, maybe some of you have seen me around. > > > > Why do I want to be a TU? > > Well, Arch has been my distribution of choice for several years now, and > > I would like to give something back to the community. I hope that this > > position will enable me to move some popular AUR packages to community. > > > > What packages am I interested in? > > Firstly, I would like to adopt MythTV (and related packages) since they > > seem to have no current maintainer. This would involve moving them out > > of extra and into community of course. If the need arises, I would also > > be willing to maintain anything I have installed, which boils down to a > > lot of GNOME desktop applications, a few games, and various multimedia > > programs or libraries. > > > > Other packages I would be interested in bringing to community are: > > fbsplash (along with a few themes) > > gnome-colors-icon-theme > > mediatomb (possibly with a few patches) > > nspluginwrapper-flash (if this presents no ideological issues) > > > > Also, I have a few projects of my own that could be added in future, > > namely PackageKit and nautilus-makepkg. See my AUR/GitHub pages at: > > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=PirateJonno > > http://github.com/PirateJonno > > > > Can I do the job? > > I think I have enough experience packaging for Arch to become a TU. > > Although I don't maintain many AUR packages, I would do if the need > > arose. I often modify others' packages to change the configure flags, > > add a custom patch, enable debugging symbols, etc. My work on PackageKit > > has made me very familiar with the packaging system itself. I am also a > > reasonably experienced C/C++ programmer, which means I am usually pretty > > good at tracking down bugs. My ability to find bugs in unfamiliar code > > is also improving. For example, here are some I have reported/fixed: > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?email1=j% > > 40skurvy.no-ip.org&emailtype1=exact&emailreporter1=1 > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?email1=j% > > 40skurvy.no-ip.org&emailtype1=exact&emailreporter1=1 > > http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?status[]&opened=PirateJonno > > > > Thanks for your time, > > Jonathan > > Just dig a little bit, and in one word: WOW ! > > :-) > > >
