November 2018 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] Electron packaging guidelines
by Tom Hale 05 Nov '18

05 Nov '18

I've noticed that there are no Electron packaging guidelines at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_package_guidelines What are the best-of-breed PKGBUILDs out there for Electron apps? -- Tom Hale

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[aur-general] TU Application - Konstantin Gizdov
by Konstantin Gizdov 05 Nov '18

05 Nov '18

Hello, I am Konstantin Gizdov [1] [2], (`kgizdov`, `arch(a)kge.pw`, `kgizdov(a)gmail.com`) I would like to apply to be a Trusted User under Baptiste Jonglez's sponsorship. A few words about me: I am currently a Particle Physics PhD at Univerisity of Edinburgh and I have used Linux since my early teenage years. After I finished high-school, Linux has been my main operating system. I embraced Open Source software for a long time ago and contribute to such several projects [2][3][4]. I have been with Arch Linux since 4+ years ago, although only more active since 2+ years. My main work is concentrated on Experimental Particle Physics & the LHCb Detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. As part of that I have been involved in the development, upgrade & maintenance of the High-Level Trigger & RICH systems and LHCb's data flow [3]. I also have experience with a lot of data processing & analysis - data distillation & enrichment, machine learning, statistical analysis, etc - and associated tools. Separately, I maintain several machines - a personal web server, company server with several VMs, local workhorse server, personal workstation & laptop (sprinkle around some RaspberryPis and network devices here and there). This put me in a unique position to work with many and different kinds of systems and software - ranging from ASICs & FPGAs, through localized control systems & end-user devices to large clusters & super computers. Daily, I use popular tools such as VMs, docker, git, GCC, CUDA, tensorflow, Cern's ROOT, but I also run a lot of custom and even-self made software [4][6]. All of this has been a breeze on Arch Linux. Thus, a couple of years ago, I decide to get more involved and contribute. I took on the task to maintain CERN's ROOT package [7] and since then I've involved myself heavily into that, I'm a contributor to the project and I use it daily in my work. I have been providing this package for many colleagues in the field, including all of its stack & complementary tools (Pythia, XRootD & other Python tools). I have enabled a lot of new features and worked with upstream towards new functionality, bug fixes, etc. On top of that I have shipped several other related projects - machine learning packages, SciKit-HEP packages like uproot, Docker images, GitLab CIs and so on. I have also been able to develop and publish a machine learning project me and colleague came up with [4]. This is soon going to be a package in SciKit-HEP and I will aim to make it package here too. Arch Linux was a great platform for all of this. I was able to install & configure up-to-date software easily and what I did not find, I provided for me & others on the AUR without too much hassle. Overall, I have to say Arch Linux (and its community) have played a key role in me being able to do all of these things. I have found the OS itself to be stable and flexible and the users & maintainers approachable and direct, which I appreciate a lot. I have met a lot of people through the Arch Linux community - forums, AUR and just saying 'I use Arch, too!', haha. The reason for applying to become a TU is to get even more involved and give back to the community. If you accept me, I would like to continue maintaining and improving my current packages as well as bring new packages. As an AUR maintainer I basically consider it an on-going duty already. I would like to maintain/contribute/adopt the following: * Packages I would like to co-maintain: o python-awkward o libafterimage o xxhash o unuran * Packages I already maintain and intend to move from AUR: o root & root-extra o xrootd o simpletools o root5 o python-root_numpy o python-uproot o python-uproot-methods o python-hep_ml o pythia o llvm50 o llvm50-libs o clang50 * New packages I would like to add/move from AUR: o cern-vdt o cvmfs o HepDrone [4] o python-keras o root_pandas (new) o histbook (new) o decaylanguage (new) o pyjet (new) o vegascope (new) o root_ufunc (new) o formulate (new) I hope to make Arch Linux more versatile and accessible to users in data science, high-energy physics & machine learning, and possibly as a whole. Thank you. -- Regards, Konstantin 1. https://keybase.io/kgizdov 2. https://github.com/kgizdov 3. https://gitlab.cern.ch/kgizdov 4. https://github.com/Tevien/HEPDrone 5. https://github.com/scikit-hep 6. https://gitlab.cern.ch/kgizdov/pdqa-automation

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Re: [aur-general] Account Suspended, No Reason Given
by shoober420 04 Nov '18

04 Nov '18

I already did. I showed an example of how I contributed, and I already have two packages I was able to update and maintain. There would have been many more if I wasn't suspended for no good reason. You blindly assuming I didn't contact the maintainer, then denying my request TWICE, not giving a reason TWICE, instead of actually discussing it with me why you denied my maintainership is not actually a reason to deny my request. Since you didn't explicitly claim why you denied it, having two times to do so, taunting me to request it again, technically is no reason to deny someones request. Not only was no reason given to denying my request to maintain sdl2-hg, you gave no reason for suspending my account. FYI, "sdl2-hg" and "lib32-sdl2-hg" were both maintained by the same guy, so if you just handed over maintainership to me for "lib32-sdl2-hg" in a blink of an eye, there's no reason to do the same for "sdl2-hg", considering it was the same maintainer, and all the reasons I mentioned before, especcially the comment from "Teteros". This all in all, is completely unprofessional, and for some of you to judge me and my actions...maybe you all should look at yourselfs before even considering judging me. Sorry if this double posted, my gmail is glitching out.

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[aur-general] Unfortunate Perceived Attitudes.
by hagar 04 Nov '18

04 Nov '18

Good morning, Afternon, Evening (as appropriate :/) all, I have been a Linux user for about 25 years. I was introduced to it when it had to be downloaded from a Bulletin Board via (cough) a 1200 baud modem. (For those who don't know, Its like writing the code into the computer while listening to it being dictated over the phone) I have over the years attempted to participate in the Linux Community - but have always been put off by various attitudes of some Guru's I was kicked/banned from the #linux IRC channel for "Lurking" when simply I was trying to catch up with the current conversation. I was always of the opinion that it was rude to interrupt. I never again tried to ask for help, or even consider contributing until now. I am acutely aware that programming is a High Math/Sciences calling and that those who are high Math/Sciences tend to have a few flaws in their communication skills. I my self have been in trouble for this on many occasions. I have only recently joined this list as I am considering contributing. I asked one question and it seemed to turn into a divisive argument to some people. I have since observed that this does not seem to be an isolated occurrence. I would like to point out that since these threads are in the public domain, that all words used need to be thought and read through twice. Every thing written here will be read by newbies and other possible future Guru's. What they read may just push them away instead of attracting them to the Linux cause. If I have written anything that Offends I would like to apologize in advance. It is not my intention to start some great debate - but simply to try and make people think twice before replying to any thread, especially when upset. Thanks Macca

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[aur-general] Account Suspended, No Reason Given
by shoober420 04 Nov '18

04 Nov '18

I recently tried to be the maintainer for an package that hasn't been updated in quite some time. I've been using my own PKGBUILD for the particular package with great success, and currently am maintaining the "lib32-sdl2-hg" 32 bit version of this package. Upon request of this package, It was denied for no reason given, except a disrespectful message from coderob and I quote. "come back with a better request, my dude" So I did, I requested to maintain the package again, and was denied, then my account got suspended. Whats the deal here? I wasn't warned about anything I may have done wrong, and I'm currently maintaining two packages, and co-maintaining another one, which I no longer can access. Please unsuspend my account so I can maintain my packages. Vincent Grande <shoober420>

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[aur-general] Email Reset
by pellertson＠firemail.cc 02 Nov '18

02 Nov '18

I need help reseting my email address on my AUR account. Recently lost my old email address password so I've been migrating everything. I have the ssh keys for my account if proof is needed. - Parker

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