On February 16, 2026 1:43:27 PM EST, tippfehlr <[email protected]> wrote:
>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.
>
Hi Jonathan!
>
>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.
>
Archinstall or manual? (Just out of curiosity, I'm an Archinstall guy myself)
>
>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.
>
The AUR is the metaphorical gateway drug that leads to becoming a PM. It
happened to me too.
>
>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.
>
I'm sure gromit has already told you, but we could always use more DevOps folks
;)
>
>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.
>
Favorite fantasy novel?
>
>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].
>
Half good choice in forge!
>
>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!
>
Along with the duties of a package maintainer, there are other aspects of Arch
that you could help out with if you're so inclined. There's DevOps, as you
previously mentioned, alongside efforts like Keycloak integration, AUR
moderation, Archweb improvements, architecture ports, buildbtw, signstar, et
cetera. I'm not looking for a commitment because this is strictly a package
maintainer application, but do any of these efforts interest you?
>
>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
Solid application and I know Christian and Peter have good taste. Looking
forward to hearing from you!
Best,
Campbell Jones (serebit)
