[arch-general] Hello

Brandon Jones

6 May 2011 6 May '11

4:49 a.m.

Hey all, I'm new to arch linux but I would like to contribute in anyway I can. My development skills are limited to java and c#, however I am willing to learn c/c++ and others to help you all out. Just let me know what I can do to be of assistance.

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Sven-Hendrik Haase

6 May 6 May

4:53 a.m.

On 05/05/2011 10:49 PM, Brandon Jones wrote:

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Hey all, I'm new to arch linux but I would like to contribute in anyway I can. My development skills are limited to java and c#, however I am willing to learn c/c++ and others to help you all out. Just let me know what I can do to be of assistance. Welcome to Arch.

For now, a good thing to do is to check AUR for old packages/orphans and either report them to aur-general for deletion or take care of their maintenance. P.S.: We hope your stay in Arch Linux will be a pleasant one. Your operating system has been processed, and we are now ready to begin development proper. -- Sven-Hendrik

Brandon Jones

5:20 a.m.

Alright thanks. I'll look into how pkgbuild works and see if I can figure it out to maintain some packages. Better to update the packages to they are available then just delete them. On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:

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On 05/05/2011 10:49 PM, Brandon Jones wrote:

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Hey all, I'm new to arch linux but I would like to contribute in anyway I can. My development skills are limited to java and c#, however I am willing to learn c/c++ and others to help you all out. Just let me know what I can do to be of assistance.

Welcome to Arch.

For now, a good thing to do is to check AUR for old packages/orphans and either report them to aur-general for deletion or take care of their maintenance.

P.S.: We hope your stay in Arch Linux will be a pleasant one. Your operating system has been processed, and we are now ready to begin development proper.

-- Sven-Hendrik

Thomas S Hatch

5:45 a.m.

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Brandon Jones wrote:

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Alright thanks. I'll look into how pkgbuild works and see if I can figure it out to maintain some packages. Better to update the packages to they are available then just delete them.

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:

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On 05/05/2011 10:49 PM, Brandon Jones wrote:

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Hey all, I'm new to arch linux but I would like to contribute in anyway I can. My development skills are limited to java and c#, however I am willing to learn c/c++ and others to help you all out. Just let me know what I can do to be of assistance.

Welcome to Arch.

For now, a good thing to do is to check AUR for old packages/orphans and either report them to aur-general for deletion or take care of their maintenance.

P.S.: We hope your stay in Arch Linux will be a pleasant one. Your operating system has been processed, and we are now ready to begin development proper.

-- Sven-Hendrik

Huh, I have a good friend named Brandon Jones.... We are excited to have you on board, if you are interested in becoming an Arch developer the place to start is in the AUR, it is meant as both a public package repository, and a sort of packager proving ground. Once you are maintaining say 30-40 packages and you are helping in the community an Arch Linux Trusted User (TU) can sponsor you to become a TU. Also, since you have the programming fu... much of Arch is written in bash, and there are a few main projects that could use some love, for instance netcfg http://projects.archlinux.org/netcfg.git/ could use a maintainer. There are a number of Arch projects that could always use some polish: http://projects.archlinux.org/ Or there are a number of open source projects that target Arch or are developed on Arch that you could help with, you could just ask around and find something thats suits your fancy, I for one could always use more help on my projects, salt, varch, quarters, butter etc: https://github.com/thatch45 Pick your poison, but the quickest way to become a member of the Arch developer community is to maintain packages in the AUR, kill some bugs on the bugtracker, and submit patches to Arch projects. Then we will make you a TU and you will be well on your way! -Thomas S Hatch -Arch Linux Trusted User

Brandon Jones

5:52 a.m.

I think I'll start with the AUR. I could use the packaging experience anyway. Plus it will force me to get to know my commands and the nuts and bolts of the system more. I'll definately check out the projects though once I feel skilled enough to do so. On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Thomas S Hatch wrote:

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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Brandon Jones
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wrote:

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Alright thanks. I'll look into how pkgbuild works and see if I can figure it out to maintain some packages. Better to update the packages to they are available then just delete them.

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:

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On 05/05/2011 10:49 PM, Brandon Jones wrote:

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Hey all, I'm new to arch linux but I would like to contribute in anyway I can. My development skills are limited to java and c#, however I am willing to learn c/c++ and others to help you all out. Just let me know what I can do to be of assistance.

Welcome to Arch.

For now, a good thing to do is to check AUR for old packages/orphans and either report them to aur-general for deletion or take care of their maintenance.

P.S.: We hope your stay in Arch Linux will be a pleasant one. Your operating system has been processed, and we are now ready to begin development proper.

-- Sven-Hendrik

Huh, I have a good friend named Brandon Jones....

We are excited to have you on board, if you are interested in becoming an Arch developer the place to start is in the AUR, it is meant as both a public package repository, and a sort of packager proving ground. Once you are maintaining say 30-40 packages and you are helping in the community an Arch Linux Trusted User (TU) can sponsor you to become a TU.

Also, since you have the programming fu... much of Arch is written in bash, and there are a few main projects that could use some love, for instance netcfg http://projects.archlinux.org/netcfg.git/ could use a maintainer.

There are a number of Arch projects that could always use some polish: http://projects.archlinux.org/

Or there are a number of open source projects that target Arch or are developed on Arch that you could help with, you could just ask around and find something thats suits your fancy, I for one could always use more help on my projects, salt, varch, quarters, butter etc: https://github.com/thatch45

Pick your poison, but the quickest way to become a member of the Arch developer community is to maintain packages in the AUR, kill some bugs on the bugtracker, and submit patches to Arch projects. Then we will make you a TU and you will be well on your way!

-Thomas S Hatch -Arch Linux Trusted User

Thomas S Hatch

5:55 a.m.

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Brandon Jones wrote:

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I think I'll start with the AUR. I could use the packaging experience anyway. Plus it will force me to get to know my commands and the nuts and bolts of the system more. I'll definately check out the projects though once I feel skilled enough to do so.

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Thomas S Hatch wrote:

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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Brandon Jones
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wrote:

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Alright thanks. I'll look into how pkgbuild works and see if I can figure it out to maintain some packages. Better to update the packages to they are available then just delete them.

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:

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On 05/05/2011 10:49 PM, Brandon Jones wrote:

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Hey all, I'm new to arch linux but I would like to contribute in anyway I can. My development skills are limited to java and c#, however I am willing to learn c/c++ and others to help you all out. Just let me know what I can do to be of assistance.

Welcome to Arch.

For now, a good thing to do is to check AUR for old packages/orphans and either report them to aur-general for deletion or take care of their maintenance.

P.S.: We hope your stay in Arch Linux will be a pleasant one. Your operating system has been processed, and we are now ready to begin development proper.

-- Sven-Hendrik

Huh, I have a good friend named Brandon Jones....

We are excited to have you on board, if you are interested in becoming an Arch developer the place to start is in the AUR, it is meant as both a public package repository, and a sort of packager proving ground. Once you are maintaining say 30-40 packages and you are helping in the community an Arch Linux Trusted User (TU) can sponsor you to become a TU.

Also, since you have the programming fu... much of Arch is written in bash, and there are a few main projects that could use some love, for instance netcfg http://projects.archlinux.org/netcfg.git/ could use a maintainer.

There are a number of Arch projects that could always use some polish: http://projects.archlinux.org/

Or there are a number of open source projects that target Arch or are developed on Arch that you could help with, you could just ask around and find something thats suits your fancy, I for one could always use more help on my projects, salt, varch, quarters, butter etc: https://github.com/thatch45

Pick your poison, but the quickest way to become a member of the Arch developer community is to maintain packages in the AUR, kill some bugs on the bugtracker, and submit patches to Arch projects. Then we will make you a TU and you will be well on your way!

-Thomas S Hatch -Arch Linux Trusted User

Awesome! Also, bottom post, some people around here will get annoyed :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html

Brandon Jones

5:58 a.m.

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Thomas S Hatch wrote:

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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Brandon Jones
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wrote:

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I think I'll start with the AUR. I could use the packaging experience anyway. Plus it will force me to get to know my commands and the nuts and bolts of the system more. I'll definately check out the projects though once I feel skilled enough to do so.

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Thomas S Hatch wrote:

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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Brandon Jones < magedeveloping@gmail.com

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wrote:

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Alright thanks. I'll look into how pkgbuild works and see if I can figure it out to maintain some packages. Better to update the packages to they are available then just delete them.

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase
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wrote:

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On 05/05/2011 10:49 PM, Brandon Jones wrote:

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Hey all, I'm new to arch linux but I would like to contribute in anyway I can. My development skills are limited to java and c#, however I am willing to learn c/c++ and others to help you all out. Just let me know what I can do to be of assistance.

Welcome to Arch.

For now, a good thing to do is to check AUR for old packages/orphans and either report them to aur-general for deletion or take care of their maintenance.

P.S.: We hope your stay in Arch Linux will be a pleasant one. Your operating system has been processed, and we are now ready to begin development proper.

-- Sven-Hendrik

Huh, I have a good friend named Brandon Jones....

We are excited to have you on board, if you are interested in becoming an Arch developer the place to start is in the AUR, it is meant as both a public package repository, and a sort of packager proving ground. Once you are maintaining say 30-40 packages and you are helping in the community an Arch Linux Trusted User (TU) can sponsor you to become a TU.

Also, since you have the programming fu... much of Arch is written in bash, and there are a few main projects that could use some love, for instance netcfg http://projects.archlinux.org/netcfg.git/ could use a maintainer.

There are a number of Arch projects that could always use some polish: http://projects.archlinux.org/

Or there are a number of open source projects that target Arch or are developed on Arch that you could help with, you could just ask around and find something thats suits your fancy, I for one could always use more help on my projects, salt, varch, quarters, butter etc: https://github.com/thatch45

Pick your poison, but the quickest way to become a member of the Arch developer community is to maintain packages in the AUR, kill some bugs on the bugtracker, and submit patches to Arch projects. Then we will make you a TU and you will be well on your way!

-Thomas S Hatch -Arch Linux Trusted User

Awesome! Also, bottom post, some people around here will get annoyed :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html

Oh, my apologies. I believe this is the correct way now right? Anyway, so far it seems fairly straight forward to make packages. Just have to find an orphaned one I think i can handle.

Thomas S Hatch

6:01 a.m.

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Brandon Jones wrote:

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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Thomas S Hatch wrote:

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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Brandon Jones
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wrote:

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I think I'll start with the AUR. I could use the packaging experience anyway. Plus it will force me to get to know my commands and the nuts and bolts of the system more. I'll definately check out the projects though once I feel skilled enough to do so.

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Thomas S Hatch wrote:

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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Brandon Jones < magedeveloping@gmail.com

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wrote:

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Alright thanks. I'll look into how pkgbuild works and see if I can figure it out to maintain some packages. Better to update the packages to they are available then just delete them.

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase < sh@lutzhaase.com

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wrote:

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On 05/05/2011 10:49 PM, Brandon Jones wrote:

> Hey all, I'm new to arch linux but I would like to contribute in anyway I > can. My development skills are limited to java and c#, however I am > willing > to learn c/c++ and others to help you all out. Just let me know what I > can > do to be of assistance. > Welcome to Arch.

For now, a good thing to do is to check AUR for old packages/orphans and either report them to aur-general for deletion or take care of their maintenance.

P.S.: We hope your stay in Arch Linux will be a pleasant one. Your operating system has been processed, and we are now ready to begin development proper.

-- Sven-Hendrik

Huh, I have a good friend named Brandon Jones....

We are excited to have you on board, if you are interested in becoming an Arch developer the place to start is in the AUR, it is meant as both a public package repository, and a sort of packager proving ground. Once you are maintaining say 30-40 packages and you are helping in the community an Arch Linux Trusted User (TU) can sponsor you to become a TU.

Also, since you have the programming fu... much of Arch is written in bash, and there are a few main projects that could use some love, for instance netcfg http://projects.archlinux.org/netcfg.git/ could use a maintainer.

There are a number of Arch projects that could always use some polish: http://projects.archlinux.org/

Or there are a number of open source projects that target Arch or are developed on Arch that you could help with, you could just ask around and find something thats suits your fancy, I for one could always use more help on my projects, salt, varch, quarters, butter etc: https://github.com/thatch45

Pick your poison, but the quickest way to become a member of the Arch developer community is to maintain packages in the AUR, kill some bugs on the bugtracker, and submit patches to Arch projects. Then we will make you a TU and you will be well on your way!

-Thomas S Hatch -Arch Linux Trusted User

Awesome! Also, bottom post, some people around here will get annoyed :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html

Oh, my apologies. I believe this is the correct way now right? Anyway, so far it seems fairly straight forward to make packages. Just have to find an orphaned one I think i can handle.

No worries about the posting, I messed up a lot in my early Linux days with it :) If you need help with anything feel free to ask, Arch packages are crazy easy to make, have fun!

Grigorios Bouzakis

6:07 a.m.

Thomas S Hatch wrote:

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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Brandon Jones wrote:

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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Thomas S Hatch wrote:

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Awesome! Also, bottom post, some people around here will get annoyed :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html

Oh, my apologies. I believe this is the correct way now right? Anyway, so far it seems fairly straight forward to make packages. Just have to find an orphaned one I think i can handle.

No worries about the posting, I messed up a lot in my early Linux days with it :)

Since we're in an educational mood ... http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html especially: http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html#ss2.1 & http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html#ss2.2 ---- Greg

Thomas S Hatch

6:09 a.m.

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Since we're in an educational mood ... http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html especially: http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html#ss2.1 & http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html#ss2.2

---- Greg

See? I still make a mess of things sometimes :) -Thomas S Hatch

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