May 2008 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] TU Application
by Angel Velásquez 21 May '08

21 May '08

Hello everyone My name is Angel Velásquez and I live in Venezuela. I have 24 years old and I just finished my studies in the university (Computer Technician), so now I have enough time to work in my favorite distro. My native language is Spanish and I also speak Italian and English (at a regular level, I can be easily understood); also, I understand Portuguese and some French (at a beginners level). I work as PHP/Python Developer (under Linux) and of course, now I'm working on Arch ;-). I have been using Linux since 1998: I started with Red Hat 5.2, but I got disappointed about many of the rpm's limitants, so I moved back again to Win** (yeah, this is sad), until 2000 when I met Slackware and I liked it because with this distro you are not 'rpm dependent', so you maintain your distro and your libraries. Working this way was good until I needed to get new things, so I moved to Debian unstable for a long time; back in 2005 I discovered Arch Linux because a friend of mine proposed me 'hey, what about to test another and different distro?' and I liked it, but due to job reasons at that moment I didn't have the time to install Arch completely (as a main distro), but finally I became an 'archer' in 2006 when I had enough time to learn and use it proficiently. I was expecting to join an Arch Linux community here in Venezuela but at that moment, nothing happened and no groups were created, however we had one of the biggest events on the country (FLiSoL) so I had to search some local archers (Ricardo Hernández, Miguel Useche, Flavio Percoco, Victor Roman, etc) and we created the local community :-), and I can say that I'm proud of our little (for now) team. Now we have a community and we are learning new things everyday and we are getting new users into the community, whom have agreed to collaborate with us. So, I would like to be a TU, I have been developing and fixing some AUR / ABS packages for my own use (and other friends who needed them), I have also worked documenting and helping Arch Articles in the Spanish Community, and I have been in contact with some people from the Brazilian and Italian community. Maybe I do not have many packages in AUR (just 16 and not all are from scratch many of them have been adopted) but I am very connected with the Arch Linux community, specially working on the part that I'm responsible of, which is the Arch Linux Venezuelan Community. Right now, I think I have time to do some important things with some packages (especially those based on haskell, because I've been studying it) and helping developing some new features to AUR and the Arch Linux Community. Hugo Doria a.k.a hdoria proposed to be my sponsor (thank you :-)) My AUR packages: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=angvp&SeB=m Arch Linux Venezuelan Community: http://www.archlinux.com.ve (working on this) My Website: http://www.angvp.com (not ready yet, but soon) Thank you for reading this. -- Angel Velasquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Linux Counter: #359909

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[aur-general] list for reserverd UIDs for special system users
by Michael Krauss 19 May '08

19 May '08

Hello again, I must apologize for asking so many questions but I don't want dma to get in the way with an other daemon or service. Today I want to know if a list of reserved UIDs (and GIDs) for Arch Linux is available. I figured out that commonly the first 100 UIDs are used for system users like mail, ftp, hal and so on. So I want to use one of these numbers for dma but don't won't to interfere with an other system user in Arch Linux. Is there something similar to reserved port numbers in TCP? Kind Regards, Michael Krauss

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[aur-general] [Inactivity notice] Dragonlord
by Dragonlord 19 May '08

19 May '08

Hi, as I wrote in my TU application, my study time will be over this summer. I do have some last exams and duties connected with it. So there are going to be some inactivity notices from my side. This is the first one, I will be 1 week hard working for the Uni, inactive in these days 20-27.5.08. Thanks, wish me luck :) Jaroslav (Dragonlord) Lichtblau -- earthquake n. [IBM] The ultimate real-world shock test for computer hardware. Hackish sources at IBM deny the rumor that the Bay Area quake of 1989 was initiated by the company to test quality-assurance procedures at its California plants.

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[aur-general] amendment bylaws: voting & tur-users
by Ronald van Haren 18 May '08

18 May '08

Hi TUs, As Xavier pointed out (http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-May/007651.html) , we still haven't decided if we want to use the new voting system. So it is time to do decide. According to the bylaws we need to discuss & vote before we can change things in the bylaws. I propose two changes: 1. change all appearances of tur-users to aur-general 2. the fourth section of the standard voting procedure to (at least similar to) ####################################### Following the discussion period, a voting period opens. Simple YES, NO , or ABSTAIN votes are to be cast under the Trusted User section of the AUR homepage by at least a quorum of active TUs. ###################################### The SVP for changing the bylaws is: SVP( amend_bylaws, 5, 0.75, 7); This mail starts the 5 day discussion period. Please note that in the discussion period you have to vote for both points ;) Ronald

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[aur-general] TU Vote - gcarrier
by JJDaNiMoTh 17 May '08

17 May '08

Hi TUs, This begins the 7 day voting thread for the addition of gcarrier (Geoffroy Carrier) as a TU, don't forget to vote. You can see his introduction and the discussion period here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-May/007575.html For the first time, the vote is stored *only* on web interface. Good Luck Geoffroy! At the same time, I write for my absence from today to Monday. -- JJDaNiMoTh - ArchLinux Trusted User

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Re: [aur-general] TU Vote - Dragonlord
by Dragonlord 17 May '08

17 May '08

Hi TUs! Thanks for your wise and ingenious decision :) I'm very happy! I will do my best for the Arch community and to be a good TU. Special thanks to Allan for sponsoring me and Bardo for checking my PKGBUILDs. And to all of you for your votes. Regards Jaroslav PS: the next time you need a lab mouse for testing anything new, feel free to ask :D On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 03:52:31PM +0200, Allan McRae wrote: > Congrats and welcome to the team! > > Allan >

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[aur-general] [arch-dev-public] I'm online
by Roman Kyrylych 17 May '08

17 May '08

Hi all! Here's a "quick" status report. 1) I have an internet connection at home again! 2) I will finally move to another city by the end of this month (this process is so tiresome and time consuming). 3) My archbox at home is heavily outdated. I will download the needed packages at my job though, so it should be up-to-date on Tuesday. 4) It would be hard to upload updated versions of my packages from my home due to very slow internet connection, and I will be able to do this only during the weekends and 1-2 hours at nights maybe. So bringing all outdated packages to new versions will take some time. Oh, an I need to get used to SVN workflow first. Big thanks to everyone who updated my packages or took them under his maintainership! 5) After the move I will try to get a laptop as soon as possible (I do not plan to take my archbox from home) so I will be able to do everything at the new place. There is a possibility to get a fast internet connection via 3G cell network, so finally all connection problems should gone. Oh, and I think my main system on it will be x86_64 (with a bunch of i686 and x86_64 virtual machines of course). 6) I have around 2000 of unread threads in my gmailbox, already started to read them. 7) Thanks Grigorios, Aaron and everyone else involved in keeping the amount of open bugs at the manageable level. I will try to get back to this as soon as I can, and I need to fix the bugs assigned to me first (what a shame, I have many of them still not fixed). 8) I'm thinking about resigning from from the TU position and concentrate more on core Arch development. I can still maintain some packages in Community if I will have time, but I haven't been active in TUland recently so I feel that it will be better to remove the second part from the "Dev/TU" title. We continue to see more TUs aboard, so I'm sure there are more than enought skillend and confident people to handle packages I used to maintain. Many of them are gnome-related packages and I'm willing to provide any needed help for the people who will take care of them. Formal announcement, package giveout etc. will come later, in the mean time feel free to pick packages you want to maintain. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[aur-general] SSL-Encrypted AUR?
by Marcel W. Wysocki 17 May '08

17 May '08

I'd really like to see the AUR being SSL encrypted. Everytime I login from an untrusted network someone could read my AUR password. Imho thats quite a security flaw. -- Marcel W. Wysocki <maci(a)satgnu.net>

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[aur-general] AUR cleanup package list
by Allan McRae 16 May '08

16 May '08

HI TUs, The call for people to list packages in the AUR to cleanup has been quite successful with around 100 packages recommended. See the wiki page: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_CleanUp_Day Now we have to go through the list and confirm which packages deserve to be deleted. Remember not to get carried away here. We don't want to delete work that may still be useful. Reasons to flag a package for deletion: - packages that have been renamed or replaced - developmental packages (cvs/svn/etc) that have change source management systems Reasons not to flag a package for deletion: - out of date I have made a section of the wiki page where we can sort the packages. Please sign your name by any package that you put in the remove/keep list. This will allow me to monitor any abuse of the system more easily. It also makes you take responsibility for your decision to remove a package which should never be taken lightly. If you have a disagreement with another TUs decision, move it to a new section call "further discussion" or something. If the suggestions are checked properly before moving the the remove or keep list, then this shouldn't happen but we will deal with it if it happens. I will go through and make the removals in a few days. Cheers, Allan

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 15 May '08

15 May '08

Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for shorewall-perl 4.0.10.1-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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