On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 02:05:45PM -0700, José Quintana wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I ask as a user one question. Do you think you are ready?
> 
> I ask this because I see you do not participate in the community much. I see 
> you only joined the forum 2 months ago and only have 4 posts. You also sent 
> very little to the mailing list. You only have 4 submitted packages with more 
> than 5 votes. The majority of your aur packages are Git editions. You said 
> yourself you have no packages that need to be in community.
> 
> What have you done to show you should be trusted user? You say you want to be 
> trusted user to give back? Why not wait a bit longer and prove what you can 
> give to the community? It seems you want to be trusted user and then give 
> back. It should always be the other way around. Those who give to community 
> become trusted user.
> 
> I'm not trying to be mean, but as a user who becomes a trusted user effects 
> me. The decision by other trusted users  decides that I must trust you as 
> well. I ask other trusted users to think about whether it may be a little to 
> soon, but I think it may be.
> 
> Sorry for my english.
> 

I do think I am ready.  I spend much more of my time in irc than I do
on the forums or using the mailing list.  It is just my prefered method
of participating.  

according to the wiki, these are the minimum requirements for being a TU
    know basic shell scripting
    maintain a few packages in AUR with clean, high-quality PKGBUILDs
    basic community involvement (mailing list, forums, IRC)
    know Google-Fu
    a general idea of the kind of packages you want to maintain (basically, why 
do you want to become TU?) 

I know plenty of bash and zsh.  I maintain 35 pkgbuilds in the AUR (
some of which could use being cleaned up a little more).  I am very
active in irc, while being much less on the mailing list/forums.  My
google-fu is excellent.  And I would like to maintain any package that
would further the grasp of Archlinux and its goal of world
dominations... and ponies.

more from the wiki

Even though you could become a TU by merely fulfilling those minimum 
requirements, the people judging you during voting might expect more of you. 
Such as:
    involvement in the bug tracker (reporting, research, info)
    patches for Arch projects
    involvement in a few open-source projects (even if they are your own) 

I am involved the with bugtracker as much as I know how, including
lurking in #archlinux-bugs and watching arch-bugbot for when Opened
bugs are posted.  I have provided a few patches to pacman-dev, 2 of
which were accepted.  And I am moderatly involved in a couple of small
side projects (mostly zurl [2] where I am trying to make a launcher for
urls which opens pastebins in a text editor and other things in more
user specified ways instead of the browser, right now it is still a
hack abusing zsh replacement to open pastebins in vim, pictures in feh,
and gifs/youtube videos in mplayer)

but to summarize, I do feel that I am ready, I have spent a lot of time
over the past 3 months since I really decided that I wanted to apply to
be a TU, helping people in #archlinux and trying to learn as much bash
and several other languages as I could.  Currently, I am fairly verbose
in java and python.  I am about halfway through Learn you a Haskell,
and have more recently started on Learn C the Hard Way. oh, and I know
plenty of bash.

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