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[aur-general] AUR CVS access and more
by Ronald van Haren 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

After I did send the output of htpasswd -n to simo, I was reading in the arch-dev mailing list, and it appears he is on a vacation untill the 14th of January. Is there someone else who can give me (and probably also Timm (?)) access to AUR cvs now he is away, and also can someone update my AUR account ? Also Eric is set as inactive, so my forum account will not be updated in a while (though this is not a major issue I guess). thank you :)

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[aur-general] Applying to become TU.
by Mateusz Herych 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Hello. I`am Mateusz Herych, from Poland. I`am 17 years old and I started with Linux 3 years ago (with Arch 2 years ago). I registrered in AUR in December 2006, partition is my login there. One of my packages has been moved to [community] repo (skype-staticqt). Now I`am maintainer of 15 PKGBUILDs there. Most of them I using by myself. I have some knowledge with C, C++, PHP and bash. I have experience with other project (SCXD - http://scxd.info) where I was a developer. My English is average (I have few gramatical problems, but I understand all). Why I want to become Trusted User? Currently I`ve installed Arch on more than 20 machines (many of them are at my school, unfortunately all of them are x86 :( ). I want to give something to this distribution. When I become TU I will move many of my packages to [community] repo, but I will adopt some packages like ircii-pana or idesk. Yes, I know that there are no new versions of them, but many people are using it yet. I`am trying to help other people on IRC (mostly on Polish channels and networks, but I talking on #archlinux@FreeNode too. My nick is Part` there.). I translated some news from http://archlinux.org to http://archlinux.pl. I promote Arch Linux in my community. So, I`am looking for someone want be my sponsor. Feel free to ask, if you want. Regards, Mateusz.

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[aur-general] Resignation from TU group
by Eric Belanger 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

Hi everyone, I have decided to resign from the TU team because I have no longer the interest and time for TU specific duties like safe-flagging and the voting processs for TU candidates. Several of my packages in community/unsupported are available if someone else is interested in them: adesklet-yab buoh fish listen ltris musepack-tools plib pydilbert (unsupported) python-musicbrainz2 realplayer (unsupported) xarchive I'll keep them if no one else is interested in them. As for the rest of my packages, they'll be moved to extra or remain in community/unsupported where I'll continue maintaining them. I also would like to reduce my involvement with the community64 repo. I'll start another thread with more details upon that. Regards, Eric -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[aur-general] Can a fresh TU sponsor requests [was:Applying to become TU]
by Ronald van Haren 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Let's start a new thread about this: On Jan 7, 2008 2:59 PM, JJDaNiMoTh <jjdanimoth(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 16:17:06 +0100 > "Ronald van Haren" <pressh(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Okay, I will sponsor Mateusz. This will start a five day discussion > period. > > I'm not again request of Mateusz (and your sponsorship).. but I want to > post this question: Can a fresh (very very fresh :D) TU sponsors > requests? I think yes, I don't read anything in bylaws. But.. is it > right? Because, I'm sure about the great work that you and Mateusz (if > he will be accepted as a TU) will done, but how about a 'testing > period'? I'm sure that all of us doesn't born learned ( uhm, english > language doesn't give the idea that italian does :P ) and that new TUs > need time to learn all TUs functions, starting from bugtracker to all > small thing never written but that we daily use. > > All that I've written is in my honest opinion, and it is a comment > about the _future_ and not for present. > > > -- > JJDaNiMoTh - ArchLinux Trusted User > I respect your opinion. I invite everyone to give his opinion on this and have an open minded discussion. My 2 cents: I certainly think it should be possible. In my opinion you are elected as a TU, and not a TU trainee. See it in this way. If you get a new job it is also possible for you to propose changes. At your proposals should be looked upon in greater care (however it is always important to look at it with care), but you are allowed to propose things. That is what in my opinion is exactly what should happen. We have a voting mechanism, every TU is allowed to vote (actually I think you should vote) yes, no, or abstain. So if you think someone should not make a good new TU, you should vote NO. It is that easy. Like you say, you learn by doing things. Sponsoring someone is also doing something.

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[aur-general] VOTE: Timm Preetz (gummibaerchen)
by Bjørn Lindeijer 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Sorry for the delay, I forgot to start this last Friday and I still don't have internet at home. I introduced Timm as a candidate here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2007-December/006351.html Timm added some more about himself here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2007-December/006359.html Now let's vote! (TUs only of course) You've got one week. My vote: YES Bjørn

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[aur-general] Searching for a 32bit builder
by Timm Preetz 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

Hello, as I currently just have (easy) access to a 64bit machine I would like to find someone who could build my community packages. In reverse I would of course update his packages for 64bit. Currently I only have "avant-window-navigator" in community, and don't expect a much higher load of packages the next time, as I mainly build packages for 64bit at the moment. Regards, Timm

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[aur-general] Clean up old Java 'GNOME' Bindings
by Timm Preetz 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

Hi, while compiling packages for x86_64 I came across two java-packages, that seem obsolete to me. I think they could be replaced by 'java-gnome' (which I maintain in AUR, could be moved to community). The packages are the following: glib-java (provided by java-gnome) cairo-java (not yet provided by java-gnome, requires glib-java) I think other (for example old gtk-java) were already deleted. So should these packages stay in community (cairo-java has only two votes), or should they be replaced by java-gnome? Regards, Timm

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[aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Inactive for unspecified period of time
by Roman Kyrylych 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

Hi all! I have <1 minute to write this email, so I'll be quick. I'm very sorry about my disappearance. My connection at job got down during Bug Day this Saturday and I got cable breakage somewhere on my street so I got no Internet at home as well. :-( The worst thing is that I am unable to follow Arch development until New Year (at least) because I've changed my job this Monday, and I don't even have a PC there yet (but I should in near future). Today is the first day I've got internet for a hour or so (I'm sitting at my ex-job now). If someone could update my packages in Extra/Community and keep an eye on bugtracker - that would be awesome and very appreciated. Bye all and Merry Christmas! -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[aur-general] Resigning as TU
by Leslie P. Polzer 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

Hello folks, I hereby resign from my TU position. In the long run it makes more sense this way, I guess. It's been nice working with you. :) Leslie (dejari) -- My personal blog: http://blog.viridian-project.de/

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[aur-general] State of community64
by Eric Belanger 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

Hi, I would to bring to your attention the current state of the x86_64 community repo. There are currently over 100 x86_64 packages out-of-date compared to the i686 ones (http://dev.archlinux.org/~andyrtr/pkg_diff.html) . Out of curiosity, how many TUs with a x86_64 machine are active? More precisely, are you checking the package diff list on a more or less daily basis to keep the two repo in sync? I have the impression that I was pretty much the only one doing that in the last few months. To help keeping the x86_64 repo in sync, I would recommend any TU without an x86_64 machine to ask Aaron for access on his x86_64 build machine. I'm not sure to what degree the packages can be tested on the build machine but several devs and TU are already using it. Nonetheless, if the build machine would be used, at the very least, for arch-independent packages (e.g. i18n, docs pkg), perl and python modules and non-critical packages (e.g. games, xfce-svn plugin, etc) that would reduce the workload for the x86_64 TUs. I don't mind helping out with the occasional x86_64 build or with problems/bugs only on x86_64. But would like to reduce that to a minimum as it's quite time-consuming. Eric -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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