On 2017-12-13 14:52, Bartłomiej Piotrowski via aur-general wrote: > On 2017-12-13 13:57, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote: >> Hello, all. :) >> >> My name is Eli Schwartz, better known as eschwartz on the forums[1], >> AUR[2], bugtracker[3], wiki[4] general mailing lists, IRC, and generally >> everywhere I can stick my nose in. With the aid of Bartłomiej >> Piotrowski, I am applying today to become a TU. >> >> I'm 24 years old, and currently studying Computer Science in the United >> States. >> >> I've been interested in Linux ever since I was first introduced to it in >> high school, when I asked "what would be the best Linux distro to >> install if I really want to learn how things work", and I was >> recommended to try out Arch Linux. It's a choice I haven't regretted since! >> Outside of Linux my main hobby is books/ebooks (primarily SF&F of all >> sorts). I have leveraged this nicely to feed back into software which >> deals with ebooks. :) >> >> ... >> >> I've now been an active member of the Arch Linux community for >> approximately 3.5 years, and in that time I've become a member of the >> Arch Bug Wranglers team, given an Arch Classroom tutorial[5], >> contributed a few small patches to various Arch projects, mainly >> pacman[6], and generally hung out on the forums and in IRC, trying to be >> helpful. Recently I've been doing a bit of general helping out in >> #archlinux-reproducible[7] as well. >> >> I've always been especially interested in packaging for Arch Linux, and >> have reviewed many PKGBUILDs on this mailing list as well as in the AUR >> Issues, Discussion & PKGBUILD Requests subforum and in #archlinux-aur, >> written a popular script for maintaining AUR packages[8], and featured >> the topic of packaging for Arch Linux in the above-mentioned Arch >> Classroom tutorial. I anticipate doing all^W^W^Wmost of this in a >> somewhat more formal role. :) >> >> I would like to become a TU in order to contribute more to Arch Linux in >> general (because it would be a shame to miss out on one particular angle >> I guess). It would also give me more scope to help fix simple packaging >> bugs that come up on the bugtracker, help resolve some policy TODOs[9], >> fix packages which no longer build due to e.g. missing sources (many >> such packages have been discovered in part due to the valiant efforts of >> Reproducible Arch Linux and Arch Linux 32), and of course to bring some >> packages to [community] that I feel would do well there. >> >> If given the opportunity, I would consider bringing the following >> packages to community: >> - firefox-extension-https-everywhere (I conmaintain this) >> - fanficfare (I maintain this) >> - git-crypt >> - advancecomp >> - llpp >> - wikicurses >> - ghi >> - dtrx >> - checkbashisms >> >> I would adopt the cinnamon desktop packages, as faidoc is not very >> active currently and arojas, who currently builds them, says he'd prefer >> someone who actually uses it to do so. >> I've also received permission to comaintain sigil and qbittorrent, as >> well as calibre and its dependencies (I maintain the -git packages for >> all three in the AUR, and have contributed most of the calibre PKGBUILD >> as well). >> >> [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=84187 >> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=M&SB=n&K=Eschwartz >> [3] https://bugs.archlinux.org/?project=0&do=user&id=19965 >> [4] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Special:Contributions/Eschwartz >> [5] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Classroom#Previous_classes >> [6] https://github.com/eli-schwartz/pacman/commits/queue?author=eli-schwartz >> [7] https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/archlinux/archlinux.html >> [8] https://github.com/eli-schwartz/pkgbuilds >> [9] https://www.archlinux.org/todo/ >> > > I'm happy to confirm that I do sponsor Eli's application. Happy discussing! > > Bartłomiej >
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