On 9/5/19 5:29 PM, Alad Wenter via aur-general wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 05:23:20PM +0200, Jonas Witschel wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> my name is Jonas Witschel (online nick "diabonas" on the >> AUR/GitHub/GitLab/...) and I am applying as an Arch Linux Trusted User >> under the sponsorship of Bruno Pagani and Alad Wenter. >> > I hereby confirm my sponsorship of Jonas. Best of luck with your > application! > > Alad
Just to add some words beyond "I sponsor this candidate"... My first encounter with diabonas was when he fixed some broken behavior with aurutils [7, 8]. I got no github issue, but instead directly a PR to fix it. :) I also noticed his interest in WKD when he created a detailed table on the wiki [9] for every developer and TU key, with the corresponding bug report. When Bruno mentioned Jonas was interested in becoming TU, I was pleasantly surprised and looked at his various AUR packages. What I found most remarkable was the amount of insight found in these packages, e.g. the comments in tpm2-tss-git [10]. I thus asked to send in a draft of the application, found it good and gave my Stamp of Approval(TM). [7] https://github.com/AladW/aurutils/pull/493 [8] https://github.com/AladW/aurutils/pull/464 [9] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Diabonas/WKD_support_by_developer_key [10] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=tpm2-tss-git#n45 Alad > >> A few words about myself: I am a math PhD student and long-time Linux >> user. I switched to Arch Linux around 2016 because I like the idea of a >> rolling release distribution that stays close to upstream, which is >> especially beneficial when doing software development. I got more >> actively involved in contributing to Arch when the previous AUR >> maintainer of the tpm2-software stack (tpm2-tss, tpm2-abrmd and >> tpm2-tools) orphaned these packages, so I took over maintenance until >> they were adopted to [community]. >> >> I am interested in many security-related thing such as Secure Boot, >> Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs), disk encryption, PGP, ... As such, I am >> a member of the tpm2-software organisation and a maintainer of tpm2-totp >> [1]. Recently I have been working on getting Web Key Directory support >> into pacman for fetching PGP keys independently of the key server >> network [2,3]. A repository of all my AUR packages can be found on >> Gitlab [4]. >> >> If I were accepted as a trusted user, I would take over maintenance of >> the tpm2-software stack from my sponsor Bruno Pagani. This makes sense >> since I am an upstream member of tpm2-software anyway and had been >> maintaining these packages until they were adopted to [community]. >> Another long-time goal as a trusted user would be getting out of the box >> Secure Boot support for the Arch Linux installation images [5,6]. >> >> Packages I would like to adopt from the AUR to [community] for starters are: >> >> - The rest of the tpm2-software stack: tpm2-tss-engine and tpm2-totp >> (when they have reached the 1% usage from pkgstats/10 votes on the AUR >> threshold), tpm2-pkcs11-git (as soon as it gets a release). >> - clevis and tang (and their dependencies jose, luksmeta) >> - sbupdate-git (I need to speak to upstream about making a release first) >> - paperkey >> - cryptomator >> - deheader >> - texworks >> - pdftk-java (an exact Java reimplementation of the very popular >> pdftk/pdftk-bin, which is hard to package since it relies on an outdated >> version of GCC) >> >> I am looking forward to working with you and welcome any questions and >> comments! >> >> Cheers, >> Jonas >> >> [1] https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-totp >> [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63171 >> [3] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2019-July/023493.html >> [4] https://gitlab.com/diabonas/aur-packages >> [5] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/53864 >> [6] >> https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2019-January/003891.html >> > >
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