On 2026-02-18 00:05, Campbell Jones wrote: > Hi Jonathan! Hi Campbell!
>> 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) The first install was manual, but since then I’ve been using Archinstall :) > The AUR is the metaphorical gateway drug that leads to becoming a PM. It > happened to me too. The red pill, if you will. But I think it’s great that the AUR has a rather low barrier to entry for new users! >> 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 ;) I’m happy to help where I can! > Favorite fantasy novel? I’d say Eragon, I’m a huge dragon fan and like its magic system. But there are a lot of good ones and I’ve been reading The Kingkiller Chronicles and Fourth Wing lately. >> 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! An easy decision with Microsoft pushing Copilot onto GitHub. Since last summer, I’m also a member of Codeberg e.V.! > 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? I wouldn’t want to commit to everything straight away, but I plan to contribute in other areas as well. I’m rather on the Rust side of programming languages and looked a bit into buildbtw; at least the frontend stack looks very similar to a university project I’m currently working on (we’re using actix-web and askama). For aurweb, I actually have one [1] and a half [2] small open merge requests (the first one would be ready for a review :)). As I mentioned, I’d like to learn more about DevOps, and of course I’d also help with AUR moderation. > Solid application and I know Christian and Peter have good taste. Looking > forward to hearing from you! > > Best, > Campbell Jones (serebit) Best, Jonathan [1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/aurweb/-/merge_requests/870 [2] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/aurweb/-/merge_requests/881 PS: I sent this email from my eu address because the message from dev wouldn’t reach the list. It is signed with the same PGP key.
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