On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 17:47 -0400, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote: > On 8/16/19 3:19 PM, Jean Lucas via aur-general wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > My name is Jean Lucas, and I'm sending this email to submit my > > candidacy > > for Trusted User member. As per the latest TU bylaws, I'm being > > sponsored by both Alexander Rødseth and Sergej Pupykin. > > > > I've been an Arch Linux user since around a little before I > > registered > > my AUR account (January 2015, username "flacks" [1]), and I've > > recently > > had a few of my packages adopted into [community], namely "cage", > > "coturn", and "swaybg". > > > > I'm currently a computer science student with a particular interest > > in > > software engineering ranging from low-level (with a few > > contributions to > > projects like coreboot and postmarketOS) all the way up to web > > development (my current focus), and as such, would love to help > > maintain > > Arch's [community] repo in an official capacity to be part of the > > team > > that gives Arch users a robust, high-quality Linux software > > experience; > > as well as to help maintain, manage, and watch over the operation > > of the > > AUR and it's vast sea of software packaging recipes. > > > > If I were accepted to become a TU, I'd like to adopt and move the > > following packages (all having over 10 votes in the AUR) from the > > AUR > > into [community]: > > > > anydesk, downgrade, exercism, flutter, godot, itch, mattermost- > > desktop, > > nvm, reaper, spotify, teamviewer, thermald, unity-editor, and > > unityhub, > > for starters! > > In the case of Spotify specifically, the AUR maintainer is already a > TU, > and had you asked him before being eager to move it to community he'd > have probably told you that you're not the first or even the second > (or > third? I lose track) person to propose moving it. > I think someone may have also suggested it in a TU application > before...
Understood. My apologies for not having researched this well enough beforehand. > > Either way you should definitely ask the maintainer if it is okay to > move it to community. If that maintainer is a TU, and they haven't > moved > it to community on their own, there is probably a reason. Understood. My intention was to open a dialogue with the maintainer of any owned package before taking any action. > > downgrade: > > I'm quite hesitant to have "downgrade" in the repos, it seems to be > an > immense antipattern -- not quite as bad as an AUR helper > in[community], > but nearly. Also isn't even well written as it does a ton of parsing > HTML files and pacman.conf in sed, instead of using either pacman- > conf > or an HTML parser. I really wish that people who wrote complex > integrations around pacman/makepkg would follow pacman development -- > in > fact, many of the current crop of AUR helpers do exactly that, which > is > why I would even dare use some of them. > > If we *were* going to add a program to pander to the desire to have > partially updated systems, I would prefer to create a new tool from > scratch. > > Also "downgrade" indexing archive.archlinux.org (with sed or anything > else) is problematic due to the fact that we no longer store many > versions of packages but upload them to archive.org and delete them > from > our own server (and use rewrite rules to let users download the > files, > but that doesn't help to build an HTML index). So I'm decidedly > unsure > how useful it's supposed to be even at fulfilling its desired goal. Understood. downgrade can be scratched until a better solution everyone agrees with comes along. > > > Additionally, I would express my willingness to help co-maintain > > "firejail" (already in [community]), as its a project I have a > > higher > > interest in and contribute to occasionally; as well as to help get > > "ghidra" in good enough shape to propose moving it into > > [community], > > since I've had lots of fun building it [2], its a phenomenal piece > > of > > open-source software, and it'd be nice to have it officially > > supported > > by the Arch community (it also has a nice number of votes in the > > AUR)! > > > > Thank you for your time, and thank you to all who help make Arch a > > great OS! > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > Jean Lucas > > > > > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/flacks > > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/log/?h=ghidra-git > > > >
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