Le 12/11/2023 à 23:34, Jakub Klinkovský a écrit :
Hey everyone, I'm sending my application to become a package maintainer, which is kindly sponsored by Sven (svenstaro) and Frederik (freswa).
## Who I am
My name is Jakub, but I'm mostly known as Lahwaacz online. I've been an Arch wiki admin since 2014 and also created the man.archlinux.org project.
In real life, I have scientific background and I'm interested in programming, automation and infrastructure. I write Python, C++ and CUDA (no Rust yet :-().
Hey Jakub, Nice to see you apply to become a package maintainer! :D Good luck!
## What I want to do
I want to help with package maintenance in two general areas that are closest to me:
1. Due to my background, I'm using many weird scientific packages (almost) daily, including cuda, openmpi, vtk, paraview and more. Most of these are notorious for breaking often and I'd have to deal with this anyway, so I might as well directly co-maintain them.
2. As a wiki admin I could co-maintain some wiki-related packages, both for users and for backend deployment. The Arch wiki is based on MediaWiki which is currently deployed from a single git mono-repository that contains all necessary extensions (either bundled or as git submodules) but we would like to eventually use Arch packages for MediaWiki and its extensions. This is a long-term goal for me, however, since I have yet to learn how to do PHP packaging properly...
Nice goals, those stacks/packages would obviously benefit from some help.
I may find also other areas where to invest my packaging time, but overall I imagine myself maintaining a small-ish number of packages and focusing on quality rather than quantity.
## Disclaimers
First, I think it is fair to acknowledge that I do not plan to deal with handling AUR requests, which is still associated to the role of a package maintainer. Dealing with the wiki is hard and time consuming in itself and I don't have the capacity to add another similarly exhausting responsibility.
Fair enough. As Torsten said, hopefully this will be handled by the (soon to be) AUR moderators role at some point :)
I like Python as a language, but I dislike Python packaging and I don't see myself maintaining many Python packages in the future. I might change my opinion, though, since I would really love to see jupyterhub in the official repos: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jupyterhub
## My packages
My AUR packages: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?SeB=m&K=lahwaacz
I had a quick look at your PKGBUILDs and they all look really great! If I had to raise a few things, just for the sake of it, I would eventually raise that: - You don't explicitly have to `cd` to "$srcdir" during the `mythes-cs`'s package function [1] as functions are already executed from that directory by default. - The "v" prefix of the `oojs-ui-archlinux-git`'s tags should be cut off the pkgver [2]. You can adapt the `pkgver()` function accordingly, as described in the VCS packaging guidelines [3].
I also maintain an unofficial [jlk] repo which contains many other AUR packages that I use: https://jlk.fjfi.cvut.cz/arch/repo.html
Feel free to bombard me with any questions or package reviews :-)
Best regards, Jakub / Lahwaacz
That's a really nice application! I'm convince you would be a great fit and that your help will be appreciated on the packages you mentioned. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=mythes-cs#n15 [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=oojs-ui-archlinux-git... [3] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VCS_package_guidelines#Git -- Regards, Robin Candau / Antiz