Sorry, I forgot to mention I have a x86 laptop and x86_64 desktop both running Arch, giving me the opportunity to test packages on both architectures.
Thanks, Brad On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Brad Fanella <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello everybody, > In response to this (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103250) > thread, I (and a few others) have decided that it would be a good idea to > have a stream of new TUs to maintain packages that they actually use > themselves, which in theory would lessen the gap between upstream and > package releases. > > I guess I should tell you a little about myself and what I do/have done. My > name is Brad Fanella and I am from Chicago, Illinois within the United > States of America. I am a software developer, web designer, and > [no]monkey[/no]. My forum username is itsbrad212 (I doubt anyone cares) and > I have a little over 1,200 posts currently. I have been an Arch user since > around December 2009 and a Linux user since late 2008. Before I had found > Arch, distro hopping was a normal happening and I tended to do a lot of it. > From Ubuntu to Slackware to Debian to Gentoo, none of them every pleased > me...until I found Arch. The combination of a simplistic, fast, > rolling-release distribution with a great community and team of developers > is what keeps me here, and I will definitely be staying for many years to > come (if I ever leave at all). > > My talents? Well, when I first discovered that computers were for more than > what happens when you click the Internet icon, the first thing that peaked > my interest was web design, so I learned HTML, CSS, and (shortly later) PHP. > A couple of months after that, I found another programmer and together we > created a content management system (Surf-CMS) that we are currently > managing to this day. > > Of course, how could you be called an "advanced" Linux user without knowing > C and shell scripting? Well, I first learned about shell scripting when > there were some tasks I needed to be done and I wanted to automate that > process. C, on the other hand, was learned for two (maybe three) reasons: > 1) Linux and C go together > 2) I like speed > 3) I wanted to be 1337 > > Kdding about the last one. Anyway, within the past few weeks, I have been > developing a AUR+Pacman (and maybe ABS in the future?) wrapper in C. I > thought C would be a good candidate because it's *fast*, and even with more > than 500 lines of code, it still fetches, untars, and resolves dependencies > in a split second. It is currently incomplete, but I plan to release it > under the "Community Contributions" section in the near future. > > I also know Python and Assembly, but nobody really cares about Assembly > anymore, so it's not really worth mentioning. I learned it because I have > beens steadily developing a bootloader and kernel in pure 32-bit assembly > (along with a few other developers) called LitaOS. Unfortunately, I don't > work on it that often (maybe a couple hours a week, if that). > > What can I bring to the table? Well, as I said before, I use C for pretty > much everything, so I do use a good amount of C libraries, so I guess you > could say that. I also compile a couple of Python modules here and there. > The main reason I wanted to become a TU is because I wanted to help improve > the quality of both packages that I use personally and packages that others > ask for, as well as help users on the AUR to bring their PKGBUILDs to a near > perfected state. Arch deserves to be the very best, and I want to help get > it there. > > Now, about my AUR package count. Allan even said it himself, and I quote: > "@itsbrad212: You only have a few packages in the AUR but they look good. > I'd say apply if you want..." > > I was actually a little hesitant about applying to become a trusted user, > only because my AUR package count was so low. That being said, I actually > have a fairly proficient knowledge of writing PKGBUILDs, building packages, > using namcap, etc. For a short time, I was actually hosting a small > repository of compiled packages from the AUR (that were either common or I > used them myself) for a little linux discussion group on an IRC chat room. > I actually am not still hosting those packages or maintaining them anymore > as I wasn't getting enough of a response to make it worthwhile. I just > recently got a list from a forum user of suggest packages that I should > adopt in the AUR and keep up-to-date, so I plan on doing that. > > Chris Brannon has been kind enough to sponsor me, on behalf of Allan, > through this process. I know I said it before, but I'll say it again. My > goals are not to maintain 100,000 packages or something silly like that, but > to improve other packages, submit clean and working packages myself, and > help others on the AUR to improve their packages. > > Kind regards, > Brad >
