> > Greetings! > > Please consider this my application to become a Trusted User. My name is > Dave Reisner, and I'm 27 years old, currently residing in the New York > City area. Ionut Biru has graciously offered to sponsor this > application. I'm a self-taught programmer, computer enthusiast, an > occasional IT consultant, and I enjoy brutal sarcasm & dry wit. During > the daytime, I star as a QA website tester, writing automated test > scripts with the Selenium framework. At night, I prefer Bash & C, but I > also dabble in Go, Java, Ruby, and Python. > > Although I've only been using Arch for a little over a year now, I've > become very much appreciative and endeared to its simplistic style and > offer of freedom in administration. I quickly settled into a CLI setup > featuring DWM, mutt, ncmpcpp, tmux, etc and filled in any missing gaps > with Bash and C programs of my own design. In particular, I wrote cower > and burp, which interface with the AUR to do clean and fast downloading > and uploading (respectively) from the AUR. Please feel free to visit my > Github repositories [1]. > > I also consider myself to have been an active contributor to the Arch > community. I advocate the testing repo (which I use on all the boxes I > maintain), I diligently file and follow up with bug reports, providing > patches or other solutions whenever possible, and I've made a few > (though somewhat minor) code contributions to pacman. > > Over the course of the past year, I've picked up a number of packages in > the AUR [2]. While many of these aren't very popular, I would like to > make an effort to bring Systemd into community to make it more > accessible. I believe that while it does not necessarily fall directly > in line with the "true spirit" of Arch, it's an excellent project and > there are many people interested in its offerings within the Arch > community. I've been following its development since a month after > Lennart made his initial announcement, and I have been the major > provider of Systemd packages on the AUR. > > In addition, I've spoken with Daniel Griffiths and I offered to relieve > him of some of his packaging duties (given his hectic schedule), and we > agreed on: asciidoc, html2text, and rsnapshot. Eventually, as I become > more comfortable with the role, I would like to take on more packages to > help insure that our repos stay fresh and full of useful software. Since > the recent cleanup. > > I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. Thanks for taking the > time to consider my application. > > Dave. > > [1] http://github.com/falconindy > [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=falconindy > > Wow this is falconindy. I am a huge fan of burp and cower and your post on systemd was quite educational (or linked to another page that was quite educational; I don't remember which). I looked through your PKGBUILD's on AUR and they look like they are in quite nice shape. Good luck! I think you would make a great addition to the team. --Kaiting.
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