keenerd wrote: > Hello all. I am applying to become a TU. My sponsor is Xyne. > > My name is Kyle Keen, though my handle for irc/bbs/the-last-12-years > has been Keenerd. I've been using Arch for a while now, from back > when it was still known for refusing to package info files. Before > that I did a wee bit of dev work for Puppy Linux. I actually got a > bash gui app (yay xdialog) into the ISO but please don't look up the > code, it was my first bash script and is rather terrifying. Lately I > am a 24 year old freelance electrical engineer and spend my days > writing C, my nights writing Python and during the twilight hours some > Bash. > > Right now I host the bugbot in #archlinux-bugs and I've got a few AUR > packages(1). Of them, ScrotWM and Slurm probably deserve to be in > [community]. I've written several well-liked metatools for Arch > including Pacgraph, Pacmatic, and Aurphan. Aurphan is the main reason > for trying to apply. > > Pierre requested a feature to cross check official packages as well as > the AUR(2). I was a little shocked to find 35 official orphans on my > system. Clearly, we are understaffed. Arch has been nothing short of > amazing and I want to do what I can to help keep it going. Other > goals include improving the maintenance tools and porting Arch to old > or cheap architectures. I also mirrored the AUR for a while and have > a nearly complete copy of the old comments from before the Great Table > Drop that should be re-inserted. > > Thanks for your consideration, > Kyle > http://kmkeen.com > > 1) http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=keenerd&SO=d&SB=v > 2) https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=108693
I confirm that I have agreed to be Kyle's sponsor. Let the discussion period begin!
