On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 11:26:22AM -0800, Anatol Pomozov wrote: > Hi everyone > > I would like to apply for a Arch Trusted User position. It is > sponsored by my co-worker and bright engineer David Reisner. > > My name is Anatol Pomozov, I grew up in Belarus but live in USA now. I > am an open-source enthusiast who uses Linux since about 2005. I've > been using several distros mostly Debian based. About 2.5 years ago, > when Ubuntu in-place upgrade killed my system once again, I've decided > to give a try to a rolling-release distro. > > I had heard that Arch was difficult to use and unstable so I've been > skeptical that Arch would survive at my computers for a long time. At > my surprise Arch installation was easy and system was fast and stable. > Documentation is clean and very helpful. And package manager is > *FAST*! Yeah! I fell in love with Arch from the very first day. A few > months later all my home computers were moved to Arch. And despite > that I usually do crazy experiments at my home machines I've never had > serious problems with Arch. Well, the only problem with Arch was in > systemd-207 that prevented my btrfs-root machine from booting. > > About a year ago I started playing more active role in Arch community. > I adopted a lot of broken and out-of-date packages. Currently I own > 350+ packages [1]. A lot of packages are for ruby gems that previously > were out-of-date or had broken dependencies. I improved existing > gem2arch tool [2] and it helps me with ruby packages herding. > > > At my day job I work on Linux kernel development/support at a large > server farm. My daily activity includes a lot of debugging, > performance profiling, code archaeology both for linux kernel and > in-house userspace code. Some of my linux changes went upstream, here > are few of them: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/12/391 > http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=134750749009884&w=2 > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/1/171 > > Google Chromebook developers reported that my last patch fixed one of > their top kernel crashes! > > Recently me and my 6 y/o son started learning microelectronics and > digital design. Maybe some day we'll create MIPS-like CPU. > > > Why do I want to become a TU? I like Arch and would like to keep it > improving. It means making packages better, participate in important > discussions that define where the distro moves. > > The short/mid terms plans for me are: > - move some of my aur packages to community: rethinkdb, codespell, > tup, mldonkey, v8. There are some other aur packages that I use and > would also like to see in [community]: fatsort, digital design related > tools, ... > - add android-sdk-* packages. Current AUR packages download binaries > and install binaries to /opt/bin. The binaries are 32-bit. Instead we > should build SDK from sources and provide proper 64/32-bit binaries. > This might be tricky as Android build system is complicated. > - request moving Apache to [community] and finally update this package to 2.4 > > I can help with linux kernel issues, especially if they are related to > storage/block subsystem. > > I also have experience with Ruby. This is my favorite scripting > language that I use for 10 years now and I'll be glad to help with > Ruby in Arch as well. > > [1] aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=anatolik > [2] https://github.com/anatol/gem2arch
WOW, many packages :) I just found something somewhat fishy in your subtle package: patch -p1 < ../do_not_relink_binaries_on_install.diff I'm not entirely sure i can break the build but i think it would be best practice to do "$srcdir/do_not_relink_binaries_on_install.diff" For the rest all looks superb :) -- Ike
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