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.