On 30.01.2013 21:09, Maxime Gauduin wrote: > Hi all, > > My name is Maxime Gauduin, I'm 23 and I live in France where I work as a > chemical engineer. I've been using Arch Linux for almost 2 years now, and > have been thinking about applying for a TU position for a while. Recently I > was contacted by Svenstaro, asking if I minded him putting my higan package > in [community]. That was the trigger, and Svenstaro kindly offered to be my > sponsor. > > I have been into computers since the age of 10, when I had my first one, at > the time it was running Win98. The first time I installed a Linux distro I > was 18, and the distro was Ubuntu. Not long after, I decided to try other > distros, I switched to LinuxMint, which I really liked, then LMDE. However > I had always wanted the bleeding edge, because I was building all my > emulators, and the video codecs for my encoding needs. That is when I > stumbled upon Arch Linux, somebody was praising it on a Linux Youtube show, > I thought I'd give it a try. The first install was a learning experience, > took me about 4h no less. Today I can have Arch installed in a matter of > minutes. > > I realize I may not be as skilled as most current TUs, as I do not know any > language and am not a developper. However I know my way around bash very > well. I really enjoy writing PKGBUILDs for apps I'm using, and poking > around when something does not work. I have already sent patches upstream, > for the aegisub project [1], for the Pantheon DE on launchpad, and more > recently for makepkg. The patch was nothing out of the ordinary, I needed > sed to follow symlinks because of the way I'm maintaining my PKGBUILDs [2]. > > I also have a little project of mine which has been well received by the > community, on my Github account [3]. These are mkinitcpio hooks which will > build virtualbox, host and guest, and nvidia modules using dkms when > generating the initramfs. As I'm mainly using the ck kernel, they make > updating a breeze. > > I've been involved with the aur-general mailing list since the beginning, > and have recently subscribed to the arch-general and pacman-dev. As for > the forums, I've got a mere 21 posts as I've been posting only when I had > problems, or helping people which had the same problem at the time, which > did not happen that often. I also have several contributions to the wiki, > on the Virtualbox, Nvidia, Steam pages and others. > > The packages I'd like to bring to [community] are mainly the newly released > higan emulator (which I have declined into higan-gtk and higan-qt on the > AUR) and its associated patcher beat, firewalld and python2-slip from > Fedora, the Faience themes and icon theme, ffmpegsource and my mkinitcpio > hooks if they are eligible. Also after some talking with Svenstaro, it > seems emulators on Arch need some love: we don't have, for example, a GB > emulator (apart from higan, but which is not that great for this at the > moment). I have just adopted dolphin-emu-git, I'm willing to bring the > stable version, if it's okay with the current maintainer, and I just > adopted the vba-m package (but still haven't updated it yet). > > I'm also thinking of bringing the Pantheon DE to arch, which is the > official DE of the newly released elementaryOS Luna beta 1. Currently using > Gnome-Shell, I fell in love with Pantheon. I've created a bunch of packages > on the AUR to play around with it, but being based on Gnome 3.4 while arch > has 3.6 introduces a lot of incompatibilities. Still, I'd really like to > overcome these and bring it to Arch users. > > Well, I believe that's all I have to say. Thank you all in advance for > considering my application. I hope to be able to learn more among all of > you. > > [1] > http://devel.aegisub.org/query?status=accepted&status=assigned&status=closed&status=infoneeded&status=infoneeded_new&status=new&status=reopened&reporter=Alucryd&order=priority > > [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/33575 > > [3] https://github.com/Alucryd/mkinitcpio-hooks >
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