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[aur-general] TU Application
by Jeff Horelick 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

Hi! My name is JD Horelick and i'd like to become a TU. I'm 23 and working as a sysadmin for a decent-sized company (linux and windows stuff). I first started with ArchLinux in early 2007 (if i had to guess) and ever since then, i've loved it. I think pacman is quite possibly the greatest package manager i've used and i think the PKGBUILD package format is quite nice. I haven't done a crazy amount of development on Arch, but i've been using linux since 1999 and i was a Debian Developer for ~3 years (where i maintained 10-15 packages). As a TU I will offer my knowledge, skills and time to improve my favourite distribution and it's packages. Some of my specific goals as a TU are: * Work on expanding the community repo (for example, clutter is in community, but clutter-gtk, clutter-cairo and clutter-gtk are still in AUR :( ). * Make sure packages in AUR/community are working. For example, i tried to build dpkg (i think...It's late) from aur a bit ago and the URL changed, if i was a TU (and i will probably do this tomorrow anyway), i would email the guy and say like: "Hey, please fix the 404 on your package or i'm going to take it over". * My goal is to upload, fix or update a minimum of 1 package a day. In my free time I like...wait...I have free time? ahh...but seriously, in my free time...Well...I'm a atypical computer geek...I like watching me some movies/TV, playing video games...goin out and doing some parkour...having fun. Oh, and tacos...Tacos FTW! The final thing, Allan was so kind as to sponsor my application and here is the list of packages i have uploaded to the AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=jdhore Let's start up the inquisition :P Any questions and suggestions will be answered as quickly as possible (I'm usually around from 1PM EST to 5AM EST daily). Thank you all very much. I very much hope to become part of the Arch team. Sincerely, JD In case my AUR link gets buried/is hard to see: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=jdhore

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[aur-general] Disowning some pkgs
by DaNiMoTh 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

Hello to all, I want to disown these packages: ktechlab, doesn't compile anyomore and it isn't maintained gpsim and gputils, needed by ktechlab and for some others pkg in unsupported. If anyone wants it, i will move these on unsupported. Thank you

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[aur-general] Gone for a bit.
by Loui 28 Jul '08

28 Jul '08

Hey everyone! I'll be gone for a little bit, I'll be returning some time in the second week of August (maybe the 11th or 12th). Cheers.

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[aur-general] TU Application.
by Daenyth Blank 28 Jul '08

28 Jul '08

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Geoffroy Carrier <geoffroy.carrier(a)koon.fr> wrote: > I am happy with this application. Thanks! > Could most of the arch-games packages come into [community]? Probably. I don't think there would be an issue with it really, just that there wasn't a TU interested.

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Re: [aur-general] TU Application
by w9ya＠qrparci.net 28 Jul '08

28 Jul '08

> I'm sorry, but i'm not going to do that. It was drama, it was a few > years ago when i was younger and stupider. It's no longer an issue > between myself and the parties involved so as i mentioned, i'm not > going to bring it up and i very much hope this will be the last of the > issue of if i was a Debian Developer or not. Let's just say i didn't > want my name affiliated with Debian anymore when i left and leave it > at that. Hey JD and the gang; No I am not intending to be "heaping it on" here, but alas I cannot let this go without comment. If you expected the TU community to not go and check your credentials then, as you can clearly see, it did not work. And since you brought this matter up without any prompting from any of us, it is NOT your position to expect the scrutiny OR the discussion in this matter to end now, (simply because you wish it to). Best regards; Bob Finch P.S. What I read below is beneath comment. It saddens me that you wrote this. More especially since it was in reply to your sponsor. A short observation -> IMHO adding someone who appears so willing to be confrontational is *NOT* doing the "right thing FOR THE COMMUNITY". > > Here's my honest, no BS opinion: There are currently only 27 TU's and > 36 developers in this project. I have the skills to be a very capable > TU. I more or less don't care if you vote for me to be a TU to be > perfectly honest. It's not going to plague me in the morning that i > didn't get enough votes. I only feel that i'd bring something useful > to a community with currently a lot of ground to cover (~9600 packages > in the AUR) and from what i can see, not enough people to cover it. > > Thanks > I hope you all do the right thing FOR THE COMMUNITY. > JD > > On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> > wrote: >> Jeff Horelick wrote: >>> >>> That would be a long story involving some "secretive" Debian Drama >>> (between me and 2/3 other people via email/IM) that i'd really >>> rather not pull into the mix. >>> >> But I'm afraid you are going to have to be a bit more specific about >> you being an ex Debian developer if you want anyone to vote for you. >> There is also no mention of you in the changelogs of gftp and conky. >> This experience was a primary factor in my choosing to sponsor you >> despite having few packages in the AUR. With that being questioned, >> your whole application is on very, very shaky ground, which is more >> than a bit embarrassing for me as your sponsor. >> >> Allan

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[aur-general] Haddock
by Ashok Gautham 27 Jul '08

27 Jul '08

I am the maintainer of the haddock package on aur. I was planning to update it in some time... by then I got a message from arch-haskell requesting a change in maintainership. Should I orphan it so that you can take over it?

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[aur-general] Resignation part 2 - List of packages
by Bjørn Lindeijer 26 Jul '08

26 Jul '08

Hello all, Here is the list of packages, most of them aren't updated often and probably still up to date. dumb-xmms empathy enet (dependency of tmw and cube) farsight gnome-art (candidate for removal, package is dead) gnome-splashscreen-manager (see gnome-art) gnonlin gstreamer-0.10-farsight guichan (out of date, but there is no patch out for tmw to build against the newer version, I'm working on pushing tmw 0.0.25 out soon though) jokosher jrtplib (gstreamer-0.10-farsight dependency) jthread (jrtplib dependency) kanatest libgrapple libmimic libtelepathy ltris mod_ruby nopaste physfs python-telepathy qbittorrent (apparently needs 64-bit rebuild) qmmp (out of date) qsvn qtm rake rb_libtorrent (should be renamed to libtorrent-rasterbar probably) ruby-amazon ruby-atk ruby-event-loop ruby-gconf2 ruby-gdkpixbuf2 ruby-gettext (out of date, but new version is a bit broken) ruby-glib2 ruby-gnome2 ruby-gnomecanvas ruby-gnomeprint ruby-gnomeprintui ruby-gnomevfs ruby-gtk2 ruby-gtkhtml2 ruby-gtkmozembed ruby-gtksourceview ruby-gtktrayicon ruby-libart ruby-libglade ruby-pango ruby-postgress ruby-rcairo ruby-rsvg ruby-scw ruby-shout ruby-sqlite3 (out of date) rubygame scw shackshag sofio-sip tablet-apps (for wacom) tapioca tapioca-xmpp tapiocaui (candidate for removal, old and broken) telepathy-butterfly telepathy-gabble (out of date) telepathy-glib telepathy-idle telepathy-inspector telepathy-mission-control telepathy-salut telepathy-stream-engine tetringo tmw tmwmusic visualboyadvance xdg-user-dirs Most of the Ruby Gnome related packages are from the same upstream source. Note that there is a whole group of packages related to Empathy and Telepathy, it would probably be best if this was picked up by the same TU. Link to AUR interface for convenience, sorted by votes: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&L=0&C=0&K=bjorn&SB=v&SO=d&PP=100&… Regards, Bjørn

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for ttf-linux-libertine 2.8.14-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for ttf-linux-libertine 2.8.14-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] Resignation
by Bjørn Lindeijer 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Dear all, Even since I got a full time job back in September 2007, my time for TU duties has been limited. A few months ago I switched to a different DSL provider (since the previous one couldn't get their act together), and they gave me a PPPoE modem instead of a router, which I couldn't get to dial in on Arch Linux, which basically forced me to switch to something else, Ubuntu in this case (pppoeconf had it done in seconds). From then on it just went downhill. I kept updating and sometimes rebuilding packages on an Arch Linux installed on VirtualBox at work. However on each Ubuntu kernel upgrade it broke down and recently it seems to have done its last breath since it no longer boots after Arch Linux ran out of harddrive space while upgrading the kernel. I decided this is where it ends. I've really enjoyed Arch Linux while it last, and I think it really rocks for those who want to be always up to date and also easily package their own stuff, allowing for a convenient and complete management of all system files. However, frequent breaks and security problems (no doubt mostly my own fault) had already made me prefer other distributions on my laptop and server. I'll post my list of packages in a separate email. Thanks for several enjoyable years! Regards, Bjørn Lindeijer

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