On 2/16/26 19:43, tippfehlr wrote:
Hi everyone,
Hi Jonathan, :)
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!
I confirm my sponsorship and think he tippfehlr would be a great
addition to archlinux packaging team!
I wish you good luck with the application!
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
Best regards,
Peter "ptr1337" Jung
