On 2023-04-07 10:35, Christian Heusel wrote:
Hello everyone!
Hi, Chris!
My name is Chris and I am a 24 year old computer science student from Heidelberg in southern Germany. With this mail I would like to apply to become part of the Trusted User group!
I am happily using arch-based systems since 2016 and Archlinux since around 2018. Generally I use Linux systems since 2012, and have even worked as linux system administrator (paid and as volunteer) which was very fun!
Aside from that I am trying my best to contribute to open source projects and the overall FOSS community, so far mostly by open sourcing personal projects, modifying & extending existing projets to my liking and reporting the bugs I find. Most of this activity is taking place on GitHub[0].
In my spare time I rock climb and hike, play the drums and I am an active youth lead in my local YMCA. In the last few years I also was very active in student politics but I am now winding down this involvement since I am about to finish my studies. Sometimes I can also be found in my local chaos computer club[1] chatting with other people about computers and stuff.
In general you may know me better by the nick of "gromit" in IRC tho, under which I also participate in the various other arch resources: - Since 2018 I am part of the Arch Testing team to check packages in the various testing repos - I help out on the bugtracker[2] where I can, but I also just read a lot of it to keep up to date for support requests on IRC - I have some minor contributions on Gitlab[3], mostly around devtools and mkinitcpio - I participated in the proof of concept testing for the git package migration - I maintain packages on the Arch User Repository[4] and try to help out in the AUR comments aswell - I have some minor contributions on the wiki[5] - I also comment on /r/archlinux regularily (please note that reddit usernames[6] cannot be changed once created :p)
I like the dedication to keeping packages managed rather than just bringing in a whole bunch of new packages. :) The quality of the packages is good! I like your commitment to following the wiki guidelines. I also appreciate your useful commit messages. I like that there's a TODO on one of your packages to upstream a patch: It's important to make sure all distros benefit, not just Arch! I love that you have comments telling *why* you do something out of the ordinary instead of randomly doing something with no explanation. It's worth noting that only two packages have been maintained for more than a month; The rest of your packages were adopted/created only recently! I guess if you've had good commits, good adherence, and good community engagement, there's not much else to "prove".