On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Balló György <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello everybody, > > I'm applying to be a Trusted User. > > I'm a 24 years old Hungarian web developer, and I'm using Arch Linux as my > main system since 2010 summer. Before that I used a Debian-based distro for > one year. In my free time I like surfing on the net, contributing to > OpenStreetMap, bicycling, hiking, take photos about trams, and of course, > packaging. > > I really like Arch Linux's transparency, the pacman and the build system, > the website and the great wiki. I'm maintaining packages[1] a long time > ago, and I already contributed to wiki by creating a page about > libcanberra[2], and updated, extended some other articles. > > I reported many issues[3] with GNOME packages (including upstream and > packaging bugs) to make Arch Linux better. I usually try to find the > solution and send patch to upstream if needed before open bug reports. I > helped to Ioni e.g. on updating some C# packages, and I also cooperated > with AndyRTR on splitting out extensions from libreoffice > package. > > I currently have 150 packages in AUR with a total of 5775 votes. I already > maintain more than 200 packages as source packages on github[4] and as > built i686 packages in my [ayatana] repo[5]. I don't want to move all of > these packages to [community], only the popular ones. I always try to make > the best packages and I hate poorly written PKGBUILDs. > > Some packages that I would like to add to [community]: > - deja-dup (115 votes) > - gwibber (299 votes) > - pinta (186 votes) > > Some orphan packages in [community] that I could adopt: > - agave > - buoh > > My goal with becoming a TU is to provide more popular GTK+ applications in > [community] and keep GNOME stable and consistent by fixing packages on > large updates if needed. I hope that I could support Arch Linux as a TU in > the next months and years. > > Alexander Rødseth is my sponsor. > > Best regards, > György Balló > > My PGP key: > https://raw.github.com/City-busz/Arch-Linux-Repository/master/[email protected] > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=City-busz > [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Libcanberra > [3] > https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?project=1&status[]=&opened=City-busz&do=index > [4] https://github.com/City-busz/Arch-Linux-Repository > [5] http://ayatana.info/ > > > I am excited to see you applying to be a TU, I think you would make a killer addition to the team. It is somewhat rare that we see someone with as many packages and as much experience as you apply! I hope the voting goes well for you! - Thomas S Hatch
