On 08.10.2011 17:55, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > Massimiliano Torromeo <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Sven-Hendrik Haase is sponsoring my application as a trusted user. > > I thought about applying as a TU for some time now, I think the > selection of packages provided by Arch is already great but there is > always space for additional quality software in community and I hope > to help with that. > > Here's a little background about myself: > I'm a 28yr old italian guy, working as a system administrator and > developer at a company that provides web-services, hosting and housing > solutions. > > I first tried linux out of curiosity back when Mandriva was still > called Mandrake, but I didn't like it at all and the RPM system made > me cry tears of blood. > I didn't linux again for a couple of years and then I tried gentoo. I > was at my last year of high school and, being already a developer at > heart, I wasn't scared but rather really interested by its packaging > system that required extensive time of compilation but providing > extreme customization possibilities at the same time. > That was the time when I finally dropped Windows for good and I kept > using gentoo for years as my primary os, while only checking out other > distros every once in a while. In all this years I tried many other > distributions both out of personal curiosity and for work: Suse, Red > Hat, Fedora, CentOS, [K]Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Slackware, Oracle Linux > and of course Arch! plus some BSDs (FreeBSD and Mac OSX), but I still > like Arch the best. > > Like I said, I am a developer at heart and I released some > applications [1] as opensource, first as GPL but I then became more of > a BSD/MIT guy. > The most successful of them all has been a grafical frontend for > embedded devices such as gaming handhelds which I developed (using > SDL/C++) initially for the GP2X [2] but was later ported to many other > devices by other developers/communities, called GMenu2X [3]. > > I am a confident developer who loves the Python language, but I also > user very often PHP, C++, Bash (for scripts of course) and other > languages. > My work as a system administrator involves installing and configuring > machines (Arch based whenever possible) with a variety of server > softwares, and that's where I will probably focus as a TU. > I already maintain a private repository of packages that help me keep > the aforementioned machines up-to-date. > > From this packages I selected an initial list of what I plan to move > to community: > > - percona-server > - mariadb (refactored to replace mysql, unlike the one in AUR. See [4]) > - nagios-nrpe > - nagios-plugins > - nmon > - ttf-ubuntu-font-family > - rt3562sta > - arp-scan > - e4rat > - mtop > - php-mongo > - pngcrush > - supervisor > - vdfuse > - vbox-runner > > You can see on the AUR [5] and on github [6] that I have written > already a pretty long list of PKGBUILDs including the popular dropbox. > > If you have any question, just ask. > > Thanks! > > [1] https://github.com/mtorromeo/ > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X > [3] http://mtorromeo.github.com/gmenu2x/ > [4] > https://github.com/mtorromeo/archlinux-packages/tree/master/mariadb-mysql-replacement > [5] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=mtorromeo > <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=mtorromeo> > [6] https://github.com/mtorromeo/archlinux-packages > > 5 full days have passed the land. > The vote to decide Massimiliano's fate is at hand. > What will we decide? > Judgement will be applied. > Please vote, I hope you'll understand. > > https://aur.archlinux.org/tu.php?id=51 > > -- Sven-Hendrik >
This was a huge success! 17 votes for yay~ and none for nope. Welcome to the team. Do the todo list [1]. Your account has been supersized. Congratulations! [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines#TODO_list_for_new_Trusted_Users
