2014. 07. 31, csütörtök keltezéssel 01.06-kor Muflone ezt írta: > Hi everyone > > My name's Fabio Castelli (aka Muflone) from Italy and I wish to apply to > become a TU for ArchLinux to maintain some packages in the community > repository. My TU sponsor is György Balló. > > I actually work as a software developer in a local private company and I > use GNU/Linux since the 1998, having started with Slackware 2.0. > Many years have passed through Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu and finally > ArchLinux that actually I use daily at home and at my job place since a > couple of years. Debian is still often used for software packaging, to > deploy services in my network and for less experienced colleagues that > needs some GNU/Linux environment in my job place. > > My experience in development is long term, starting in '80s with C=64 > Basic, actually I work daily in Python (under Windows, GNU/Linux and > i5/OS, both desktop, server and web platforms), Delphi and VB (under > Windows), RPG/400 and CL (under i5/OS) and many other things which I use > less often, like C or J2EE. > > My open source contributions are a really long list but let's try to not > be boring: > > - maintainer for over 160 packages in the AUR, most of them updated often: > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=Muflone > https://github.com/muflone/pkgbuilds/ > > - maintainer for some Debian packages: > https://qa.debian.org/[email protected] > https://alioth.debian.org/projects/python-apps/ > > - author of various open source softwares: > http://www.muflone.com/english.html > https://github.com/muflone/ > https://code.google.com/u/102825094329389897213/ > https://www.openhub.net/accounts/Muflone > > - written hundreds of articles for an Italian website around VB6 > development through the 1998 and 2004: http://www.vbsimple.net/ > > - written hundreds of articles for an Italian website around Ubuntu > through the 2009 and the 2011: http://ubuntrucchi.wordpress.com/ > > - support in the Italian Ubuntu forum, I was the second most active > member of the forum through the 2009 and the 2012: > http://forum.ubuntu-it.org/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=73229 > > - support and founder of LQH (Linux Quality Help), an Italian GNU/Linux > forum where normal users could ask their questions and only the experts > group could offer support, resulting in higher quality service, ran only > from highly experienced users through the 2009 and the 2012: > https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.linuxqualityhelp.it/supporto > > - written tenth of Italian video guides around PyGTK development through > the 2008 and the 2010: http://pygtk.wordpress.com/ > > - written a couple of articles around GNOME Shell in the 2011: > http://gnomeshell.wordpress.com/ > > - could continue but better stopping here.. too boring. I'm sorry! > > ArchLinux is actually my favorite GNU/Linux distributions and I think I > could do a lot of work in enhancing this great distribution. > What I love about ArchLinux is the perfect control it gives to me and it > needs from me. > > Every time I need some software, I package it and then I publish it > under AUR. > I try to apply an old Microsoft rule: "Never ever write the same thing > twice", so if the software resulted useful to me then it could be useful > for other users and AUR is a perfect place where to find stuff. > > There are a lot of packages that I wish to move in the community > repository: hfsprogs, kompozer, sweethome3d, gmtp, arista, > spyder/spyder3, sbackup, gwakeonlan, gespeaker, remmina-plugin-*, > python-ptrace. > > There are also packages maintained from other users that I wish to see > in community repository: dex2jar, dmg2img, firefox-theme-adwaita and > thunderbird-theme-adwaita, gigolo, gscan2pdf, httrack, linkchecker, > loggedfs, netactview, pacmanlogviewer, parallel-python, pyrenamer. > > I read daily the AUR general and AUR requests mailing lists but I never > participate in the discussions, after many years of discussions in other > ML and forums I lost the pleasure in writing stuff inside the communities. > The same applies to IRC, too much time spent in helping others (I was > also HelpOp in #irchelp) forced me to away even from IRC. > > My job coincided with my favorite hobby so, apart my personal projects > (see GitHub) I love reading heavy books (technical, development, > sysadmin, networking but also theater or classic novels) and watching > films when the TV is not owned by my gf. > > Thank you for reading up to here. > Best regards > > Fabio Castelli / Muflone > > >
I'm confirming my sponsorship. I think that Fabio has great experience, and has excellent packages in AUR. A discussion period of 5 days has been started now. -- György Balló Trusted User
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