Hello, I am applying to be a Trusted User.
My name is Daniel Wallace, and I am a 22 year old computer science major at
Georgia Institute
of Technology in Atlanta, GA. I have been using linux for just over 2 years
now, switching
to Archlinux about a year and a half ago. My irc handle, aur username, and
forums account
are all gtmanfred.
As I said I started using Archlinux about a year and a half ago and did not
immediately
understand what exactly I was doing or at all how the package manager worked.
I started
running archlinux on my netbook because Windows was too slow on it, and one of
my roomates at
the time did some amazing things that I just didn't understand at all. In
December I started
frequenting the irc channel, starting on the day before Christmas when I had
problems with
upgrading due to mtab. After about 2 months I started to think about applying
to be a
Trusted User and ask Thomas Dziedzic (td123) to be my sponser.
I spent a lot of time learning bash and mainly zsh so that I could make the
zsh completion
pacman-key and makepkg to be released in the next big pacman release. I
recently started
learning haskell, and even more recently became facinated with C while throwing
myself in and
trying to make patches in response to some of the bugs on the bugtracker and
have started to
read Learn C the Hard Way.
My dotfiles and everything are fairly messy and spread out right now
between github and
my cgit as I am trying to consolidate them before a commit to organize
everything
[1] and [2]. I am currently maintaining 35 packages in unsupported [3]. I am
still getting
used to the forums, but I am very active in #archlinux and looking to helping
#archlinux-women
setup classes and see what happens with them in the future as well. I have
also more recently
started trying to contribute to the wiki and keeping it up to date.
I would really like to be a TU because I find PKGBUILDs and the future
possibilities for
Archlinux to be fascinating and I would really like to be able to give back and
help this
wonderful community to continue to grow. I don't really have any packages that
I think
really need to be pulled to community, maybe at some point later, but I would
really like to
start making zsh completion for a lot of packages which do not have it already.
I could start
by maintaining the zathura plugins and the haskell-syb package.
Like I said earlier, td123 is my sponser and my gpg key is here
http://code.gtmanfred.com/cgit/dotfiles.git/tree/signature.asc?h=tower
1. http://github.com/gtmanfred
2. http://code.gtmanfred.com
3. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=gtmanfred
Thanks,
Daniel Wallace
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