On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Seblu <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Jelle van der Waa <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 21:37 +0100, Seblu wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Tonight I decided to propose me as TU. My sponsor is Peter Lewis. >>> >>> My name is Sebastien Lutttringer, i'm a 26 years old french system and >>> network engineer who lives in Paris. >>> I'm gradued from EPITA a french computer school and i work in a >>> private company for 4 years. >>> >>> My day to day job is done on Linux Debian and 99% of our servers are >>> on Debian. We work mainly with open technologies and we love >>> challenges with technology that we control/understand. >>> >>> As far as i recall, my first meet with linux, was in 2001/2002 (i >>> don't remember exactly) >>> with slackware and later with debian woody, it was just some test (not >>> my main system) >>> In 2005, i choose my grad school, in another for its hard Unix spirit. >>> I wanted to become a unix power user. So, 2005 was my switching year >>> to linux. >>> I tested some distro and i choose debian as desktop station. In 2007, >>> i changed my main distro to gentoo until 2010 (and my new laptop) >>> where i switched to Arch. >>> >>> I never really took the time to get involved to my distro and since a >>> long time i >>> want it. Arch philosophy and simplicity, remember me slackware and >>> makes me want to take the plunge. >>> >>> Regarding my skills I use a lot of linux technology in my work to >>> design solutions to our problems (network operator, file transfer >>> platform, streaming/cdn) or to maintain our critical systems. >>> I also have skill in coding in C/C++, Python, Perl, lua, php, shell >>> and some others. >>> >>> Regarding to arch, i maintain packages in AUR and fill bug report. I >>> also plan to propose some patch in some times. >>> >>> As a TU, i would start by maintaining packages i use and which are not >>> in community. To start i think to: >>> arptables >>> awesome >>> conntrack-tools >>> ebtables >>> ferm >>> fstrim >>> lsscsi >>> mtr-cli >>> nload >>> opera >>> scsiadd >>> ulogd >>> vconfig >> >> Just on a side note: opera, mtr are already in [community]. And i don't >> think awesomewm can be in [community] because of the dependency >> cairo-xcb. > My bad, opera is in community now :) > > mtr package is in community, not mtr-tiny, which is a version of mtr > without gtk (and its dependency) > > About awesome and cairo-xcb, i hope Jan, will accept to add > --enable-xcb in configure in cairo extra package to enable xcb > support. >
We just removed xcb support from cairo (and therefore awesome from community) a few months ago. There is no change we will add xcb support back atm. Ronald
