Am 19.04.2010 08:27, schrieb Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227):

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Since then, I went through quite a few distributions: SuSE, Mandrake, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian. Gentoo was the first distribution that got me interested in getting to know the internals a bit more. About a year ago, a fellow CS student introduced me to Arch. After I blew up my Fedora installation (accidentally wrote to /dev/root), I chose to give Arch a try. I got hooked. Its simplicity really makes it a joy to tinker with. :) Especially creating packages and offering them to others (AUR) is something Arch made easy.

I currently run two Arch systems, one on my laptop and one on a headless box mainly acting as a router. Both are getting packages from [testing].

Arch is the first distribution I actually started contributing back to. I began frequenting the Archlinux channels on Freenode, now and then helping out others and asking my own questions. I reported bugs I found, and I uploaded and maintain 15 packages in the AUR [1].

I use Pulseaudio on my laptop: Some of my packages in the AUR center on it, and I gave the wiki page on Pulseaudio an overhaul. I'm interested in taking over maintenance of the pulseaudio packages in [community] and improve Pulseaudio on Arch Linux.

A few days ago, I finally got up the nerve to write about my gripes with the gvim package and propose a solution [2]. I was overwhelmed with the positive response. Now Dan Griffiths approached me and offered to sponsor my application as a TU. Thank you, Dan.

I hope I'm getting accepted as TU and we can work together on improving this great distribution. :-)

Regards, Jan "heftig" Steffens

1: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=heftig 2: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19087

I'm happy to sponser Jan in his efforts to become a Trusted User! He has repeatedly shown an aptitude for helping users in IRC, and while he currently maintains only a few packages in AUR, those he does maintain are impeccable. He has expressed interest in maintaining the PulseAudio packages in [community] and given our recent losses, I would be happy to hand them off to him.

Wasn't there a request for someone who would maintain audio packages in general (and pulseaudio-based stuff in particular) recently?