Package Maintainer Application - Jonathan Grotelüschen

tippfehlr Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:44:01 -0800

Hi everyone,

I’m Jonathan, also known as tippfehlr. I am a computer science student at KIT in Karlsruhe, Germany, and I hereby apply to become a Package Maintainer.

My Linux journey began with a Raspberry Pi 1B I received as a gift in 2017. After that, I hosted a few Minecraft servers on Linux Mint (though not on the 1B). A few years later, I did an internship in a company using openSUSE, but one person used Arch Linux and Neovim and impressed me a lot at the time. In 2021, I started using an old laptop for school and installed 32-bit Debian on it, but quickly switched to Arch Linux when I discovered it was a 64-bit CPU. With the experience I had from my laptop, I finally installed Arch on my PC in 2022. I had installed Manjaro before, but Arch was the first distro that replaced Windows for me. Since then, it always just worked. When I got a new laptop, Arch was simply the easiest thing to install.

I started contributing to the AUR in late 2023, when I needed an INAV related package that was not yet available. Since then, I learned a lot about packaging and about the Arch community in general.

A few years ago I also started self-hosting services for my family and realized that I enjoy the Sysadmin and DevOps side of software a lot. I mostly used Docker Compose until now, but I would like to learn more. So if there is need, I’d like to help there as well.

Generally, I love tinkering and configuring, which probably isn’t surprising in this community. Just recently, I annoyed my brother because I ended up modding a game instead of actually playing it with him :)

Outside the digital world, I love to play the Cello and like to read fantasy. I am also active in my local community: In my dorm, I lead the 3d-printing lab and volunteer in the network department, where we are currently doing a big Wi-Fi upgrade. We also maintain an Arch Linux mirror at https://files.hadiko.de/pub/dists/arch/! Since a friend in school introduced me to FPV drones, I also like to tinker with/fly my model airplane.

If you want to take a look, most of my personal projects and contributions to other projects are on Codeberg [1] or on GitHub [2].

Over time, I collected a list of packages I use and would like to maintain in the official repositories:


Development tools:
- git-extras
- dockerfile-language-server
- emmet-language-server
- dprint

RC Flight:
- betaflight-configurator
- inav-configurator

Games:
- heroic-games-launcher
- modrinth-app
- osu-lazer

Misc:
- jellyfin-desktop (was jellyfin-media-player)
- pfetch-rs

I’m using Neovim without Mason and usually install language servers with pacman. I took some time to look through packages with only one maintainer and noticed a few language servers (for example arduino- and typescript-language-server) where I’d be happy to help out as a co-maintainer.

My application is sponsored by Christian Heusel (gromit) and Peter Jung (ptr1337). Thanks for the nice talk and all the feedback so far!



Best,
Jonathan Grotelüschen


[1] https://codeberg.org/tippfehlr
[2] https://github.com/tippfehlr

AUR:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&SeB=M&K=tippfehlr&outdated=&SB=p&SO=d&PP=50&submit=Go

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