On 30 November 2010 09:32, Kaiting Chen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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.
I remember the nick from #archlinux and the Ubuntu forums. A very knowledgable character overall, PKGBUILDs are good, attitude is right, I have nothing bad to say.
