On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
Nice! I was about to leave for the night but I want to thank everybody for the trust. I'm very happy to be a part of this great team! I'll take all the necessary steps of the TODO list tomorrow. Have a good night!
