On 10/29/18 1:16 PM, Maxim Baz via aur-general wrote: > Hello everyone, > > My name is Maxim Baz, and with Morten Linderud (Foxboron) as my sponsor > (who I was referred to by Alad Wenter) I'm applying to become a Trusted User. >
Great that you're applying! > ... > Also, as a TU I want to help finishing TODO "BUILDINFO rebuild" [4] > if it's not completed earlier. Sadly, or thankfully - depending on how you look at it ;) - the BUILDINFO rebuild is pretty much outside of our control as TUs, as almost all remaining packages are outside of [community]. All except for cinnamon-desktop and cjs, that is. *nudge @eschwartz* > - wire-desktop (76): End-to-end encrypted messaging app that works on Windows, > Linux, Mac, Android and iPhone. It is free, open-source and available > on Github. Although I'm co-maintaining this package on AUR, I was mostly > focused on contributing to the project itself: I added proper emoji support > (following the latest Unicode standard), emoji autocomplete and improved > native notifications on Linux (show user pictures, set urgency hint). > Another Electron app? oof... That one would have to be devendored first, anyways - right now it is using a bundled Electron :( > - browserpass (31): Browser extension for pass (unix password manager), > works in Chromium and Firefox. I became the primary project maintainer about > a year ago, and together with another maintainer recently started rewriting > it to make the architecture accommodate users' needs. I'm planning to bring > this to [community] after the new version is ready (we are aiming to release > in December). Also, someone in comments on AUR gave me a cool idea to use > split-packages for Chromium and Firefox browsers, I'm going to do this as > well (current PKGBUILD installs browserpass for both browsers, even if these > browsers are not installed). > Nice! > - gocryptfs (18): Encrypted overlay filesystem, an alternative for encfs. > Just curious - how does this differ to ecryptfs? > For all of the above, I'm being active on their Github pages and monitoring > new releases using urlwatch. > Release monitoring is a big plus. nice! Good luck :P -- Rob (coderobe) O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
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