Michael, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Trusted_user
Taylor Lookabaugh On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Drmgiver <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/17/2013 06:39 PM, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > >> On 17/01/13 21:46, Alexandre Filgueira wrote: >> >>> Hi everybody, >>> >>> This whole thing of becoming a TU began after talking by email with >>> Allan about one article of his where he talked about one project of >>> mine. He put me in contact with Evangelos Foutras to be my sponsor, >>> and here I am trying to become a TU. >>> >>> My name is Alexandre Filgueira. I'm a galician guy (Spain), 22 to 23 >>> years old and computer lover. >>> I'm a sysadmin and teacher. I like bash, python and vala, but I have >>> knowledge in some other languages. I also like web programming. >>> I'm a tv-show/cinema addict and music lover, from classic to blues, >>> jazz, rock, punk... >>> >>> I installed Arch the first time in 2008, at 18 years old. I was with >>> Ubuntu since 2006 and I always wanted to have more control over some >>> things, so I began trying distros... (Fedora, Gentoo, Debian...). >>> When I saw what Arch was about, my head thought... oh yeah baby! >>> ...and when I had my first Arch Linux system installed... I simply felt >>> in love. >>> >>> My first forum post is dated 2009.02.18 asking about help with the >>> grub when I deleted my ubuntu partition to have just Arch on my >>> system. I'm better now xD >>> I just have 2 packages in AUR simply because everything I wanted was >>> in the official repos or already in AUR [1]. >>> >>> After all these years using Arch Linux, I thought that I wasn't >>> helping the community as I could. I have a couple of forum posts, >>> most of them asking. I did years ago a script to automatically install >>> and configure a gnome system (gnome 2 in that time)[2]. >>> My last contribution to the Arch Linux world is Cinnarch, being a >>> bridge to show how good is our base system, showing them across a >>> beautiful window, keeping the real rolling release soul intact. >>> Thanks to my work on Cinnarch, I could find a bug in libalpm and I >>> tried to fix it, with the help of David Reisner, the patch has already >>> been merged.[3] >>> >>> My plan is to bring cinnamon to Arch Linux, a classic desktop built >>> with modern technologies. I think is a good one to have in our >>> official repos. >>> I don't own the cinnamon package in AUR, when I began with Cinnarch, >>> that package already existed. But I fixed some of the problems with >>> that package, like the switch to systemd (I was awake until 3am >>> fixing that thing in Cinnarch and then I reported the fix to the >>> Arch Linux community), or the screensaver fix when gnome 3.6 came. >>> >>> And I think that's all. Thanks for considering me to become a TU. >>> >>> [1]https://aur.archlinux.org/**packages/?K=faidoc&SeB=m<https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=faidoc&SeB=m> >>> [2]http://archive.org/details/**Videotutorial<http://archive.org/details/Videotutorial> >>> [3]https://mailman.archlinux.**org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2013-** >>> January/016283.html<https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2013-January/016283.html> >>> >> Even though Xfce is the best DE, I confirm my sponsorship of Alexandre; >> it'd be cool to have Cinnamon in our repos. >> >> Let's begin with the discussion. :) >> >> New to Arch, (coming from Mint, and I love this) and I apologize for the > interruption, but what is a TU exactly? > > Michael >
