You seem very devoted to opensource and its community; Arch is the most promising project I've seen in a while. I would gladly want someone like you to make the user/dev experience worthwhile.
+1 You got my vote here. On Apr 12, 2012, at 8:54 PM, Connor Behan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Archers. This is my application to be a trusted user and my sponsor is > Sergej Pupykin. My name on all Arch projects is ConnorBehan. Some of you may > remember me fondly from a conversation or two, others perhaps not so fondly, > and I'm sure some of you don't know me at all! > > Anyway, since I started using Arch five years ago, I have gone from being > mostly on the receiving end of support issues to mostly on the giving end. In > that time, Arch has grown immensely in popularity and this puts increased > pressure on the package maintainers so I want to help. On the forums, I would > not go so far as to say I'm "a regular"... my posting is a bit on and off. > But I have tried to be much more regular on the AUR. I currently maintain 38 > packages. There are other packages that I used to maintain. Three of them are > now in community under the maintainership of a TU (audit, sk1 and > python-lcms). And one of them was a kernel package which was one of the first > packages that Archers used to get Radeon KMS support before it was considered > stable. > > The list of packages I would immediately put in community is not huge. My > gsview and xdvdshrink packages surely have enough votes to warrant inclusion. > I would also put python-gasp in community to help Arch users who are learning > Python from the book thinkcspy like I did. And using talkfilters to chat in > pirate speak never gets old. I also want to be in a better position to adopt > orphaned packages (or neglected packages like info2man that should be > orphaned). Six of my AUR packages so far were submitted by someone else. The > packages I would not include are pidgin-broadcast (abuse potential), > instantbird (unreliable with the packaging choices I have made) and the > numerous packages that are decidedly non-vanilla. > > I have started three open source projects since I became involved in free > software: > * http://mebitag.sourceforge.net/ > * http://demohack.sourceforge.net/ > * http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-generic-slider > > I am pretty sure that only the last one has a user base greater than one =P. > One thing you will probably notice from my AUR packages is that they tend to > contain large, self-written patches. This is my favourite part about free > software - modifying it to fix a bug or even add a significant feature. I am > very much in the habit of contributing these patches back to upstream bug > trackers: > > * http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7354 > * http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7353 > * https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26998 > * https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47866 > * https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667155 > * https://bugzilla.instantbird.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165 > * https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454025 > * https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453706 > * https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19672 > * https://bitbucket.org/aafshar/pida-main/issue/464/please-make-moo-work-again > * > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=544752&aid=3054669&group_id=75689 > > <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=544752&aid=3054669&group_id=75689> > * http://sourceforge.net/p/gracegtk/tickets/1/ > > Some of them get accepted, and some don't =). Thanks for taking the time to > read this and I look forward to hearing what you have to say.
