On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 1:18 PM Andreas 'Segaja' Schleifer via aur-general < aur-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > My name is Andreas Schleifer, in the internet also known as Segaja, and I > would > like to apply to the position of a Trusted User. My sponsors are Levente > Polyak > and Jelle van der Waa, thanks for that ;) > > I'm a 34 years old DevOps engineer in the same company as Levente is > currently > working in. I have started as a (PHP) developer and have over time > migrated to > also doing devops work. > My Linux "career" started around 2005/2006 during my university time with > Ubuntu. > A few years later a friend of mine kindly pointed me to Arch Linux. At the > beginning it was a bit uncomfortable for me but I quickly embraced the > fact that > there was no UI to configure anything and that you have to work directly > on the > configuration files. > In the past year I have started to become more interested in packaging for > Arch > which made me adopt two orphaned AUR packages ([1] and [2]) and upload one > new > package [3]) to AUR. Some packages I started as AUR packages were later > moved by > Levente into the official community repository: [4], [5] > At some point I also got interested in the reproducible builds topic and > helped > out there a bit [6]. This is also where I got in contact with Jelle and we > talked > a few times on IRC back then. > When I got interested in becoming a TU I talked with Levente about this > and he > suggested that I should try to get some more packaging experience, so he > suggested > me to try to (re-)package schleuder [8] which was in a very old and broken > version > in AUR back then. It took me quiet a while and I learned a lot, but in the > end > I eneded up packaging schleuder [9] and schleuder-cli [10]. The biggest > learning > from that for me was > 1) that packaging is much more then "dumping" an upstream tool into a > PKGBUILD file > to be installed on a users system and > 2) that the ruby ecosystem can be very annoying to deal with. A lot of > inconsistent > tools to be used for testing and a lot of cyclic dependencies which > makes writing > PKGBUILD files with check() functions very difficult. > In the process of packaging the schleuder packages I also ended up with a > host of > other ruby packages which were needed [11]. > In order to be able to package the schleuder packages I also worked > closely with > the upstream maintainers to resolve issues that came up in the Arch Linux > build > environment. > I have some devops experience from my daily work and I would like to also > offer > this to Arch Linux over time. I already talked with Jelle and Levente > about some > of the devops projects that were going on in the past. I'm currently also > working > on an ansible role to install schleuder on Arch Linux infrastructure [12] > in order to > handlesecur...@archlinux.org [13]. > As TU I would also like to help out Levent and other package maintainers > to keep > their awesome packages up to date with upstream changes/releases (e.g. > [4], [5], > [7]). I would also like to migrate hss [1] and stern [2] to the official > repositories, as I believe they are both very useful tools for people who > work > with servers (hss) and kubernetes (stern) often. > > If you have any questions or want to know more you can also reach me on IRC > in #archlinux > > > Best regards > > Segaja > > > [1]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hss/ > [2]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/stern/ > [3]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/prometheus-dnsmasq-exporter-git/ > [4]https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/aliyun-cli/ > [5]https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/alicloud-vault/ > [6]https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2020-06/ > [7]https://archlinux.org/packages/community/any/ls++/ > [8]https://schleuder.org/ > [9]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/schleuder/ > [10]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/schleuder-cli/ > [11]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=Segaja&SeB=m > [12] > https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/merge_requests/497 > [13]https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/issues/178 > > GET | 200 | 709 ms | cloudflare > +1 for getting through the ruby BS without giving up like I did.
