On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Federico Cinelli <[email protected]> wrote: > "cinelli” is what I go by in #archlinux, the Arch Linux forums, the AUR, and > the > bug tracker. My full name is Federico Cinelli. My sponser is Daniel Wallace > (gtmanfred) > > I have been an active member of the Arch Linux community for slightly under a > year > and have been helping the community for the majority of that time. I’m a > Computer > Science major and also an Automotive Science major. So the willingness to > understand and see how things operate, has always been a passion of mine. > > I have been using Linux since 1999 and I have cycled through Red Hat, Debian, > Crunchbang, > FreeBSD, Mint, Ubuntu, and Fedora, until finally finding a place to call home, > Arch Linux. My reason for moving through so many distributions was that > nothing was > “up-stream” enough for me. I alway ran the latest “unstable” repo’s with a > constant > need to be ahead of the game. > > Building off of a background in C/C++ I began getting really into Bash. > Bringing me to > putting together my first PKGBUILD (pygments-hg). It was a messy process but, > I kept > working on them and sure enough began to understand how the Arch Linux Build > System and > makepkg put things in order. I've read through all the man pages and wiki > articles that > I could find and from there I began adopting ten packages at a time from the > AUR and > just cleaning them and putting their "ducks in a row" according to the > packing standards. > I now maintain forty-two PKGBUILDs in the AUR with a total of 525 votes. I am > more > than comfortable building them myself and also helping others build them as > well. I > use devtools for my builds and I have read and understood the packaging > standards and > TU guidelines. I am always open to any creative criticism / abuse that is > handed out by > the current Trusted Users. And I appreciate it. > > For the past six months I've been working on getting more in-tune with the > forums. > I've recently started answering posts on the forums and working with people > that > request PKGBUILDs. My latest addition to the AUR evansi0n (used for > jailbreaking iOS 6.x) > was the last request I've answered from the forum. I also spend a majority of > my time > on the IRC channel helping with live support. I have also added as much as I > felt fit > to the wiki when I have the extra time. I feel like thestinger and company do > a great > job on maintaining it and whenever someone mentions something that is needed > I try to > lend a hand or at least give my input on the direction it's going. > > I've also began developing my own application which is an Automotive > Diagnostic Tool which > uses OBD2 through USB to help bring bring the automotive industry into Linux. > I'm > extremely interested in helping work on anything related to WINE and porting > applications > over to Arch. I feel this will allow people to feel much more comfortable > using Arch as their > only OS and get them away from the Dual Booting scenarios. It's not that I > see dual booting > as a hassle, but, I strongly feel that anything that can be accomplished on a > Mac / Windows > based system should be able to be done in on a Linux platform. > > Arch Linux and its community fascinates me and doing what I can to help the > community grow > and prosper is very important to me. That is why I'd like to be a Trusted > User. > > -- > You can find a list of PKGBUILDs that I maintain here: > - cinelli (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=Cinelli) > > Packages that I would like to start maintaining immediatly [community] are: > - gmerlin (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/gmerlin/) > - ifuse (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/ifuse/) > - libquicktime > (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/libquicktime/) > > Also, I would be interested in taking the following from the AUR into > [community]: > - texmaker (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/texmaker/) > - screenfetch (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/screenfetch/) > - zukitwo-themes (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zukitwo-themes/) > - velox (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/velox/) > - evasi0n (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/evasi0n/) > > My public key can be found here: > https://github.com/cinelli/dumptruck/blob/master/cinelli.asc?raw=true > -- > > Thank you for your consideration. > > > -- > Federico Cinelli <[email protected]> > "Stay true."
It's nice to you applying! I think you would make a great Trusted User. You've shown great judgement on the wiki and irc, and you definitely have the knowledge/skills that are needed. I'll even forgive you for being a closet iPhone user. >:)
