On 7/17/23 04:27, Tomaz Canabrava wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 11:18 Jonathan Steel <jsteel@archlinux.org <mailto:jsteel@archlinux.org>> wrote:
On Mon 17 Jul 2023 at 10:44, Tomaz Canabrava wrote: > Because I don’t have a gpg key, and when the dkim features on the email > already are enough to validate that the email I send is from me.
You will need a GPG key to package. Arch has rules about applying and you are openly not following them.
I’ll create a gpg key when/if I need, to sign the packages, if arch Linux votes for me.
> i won’t re-apply because that’s a waste of everyone’s time just for the sake > of ticking boxes.
I consider an application that does not meet the requirements and has had very little effort put in to be a waste of time.
That’s true, and I guess I already have your -1 on the votes. Great meeting you :)
Besides not following rules, I help to maintain with patches upstream as a maintainer, co-maintainer or just a random person sending patches fixing bugs the following software set:
So which is it, (co/)maintainer or random person sending patches? I've sent patches for Pacman and other Arch Projects but that does not make me an Archlinux Developer. (I mean, I can call myself whatever I want so I suppose it does but that is irrelevant.)
- kde plasma - plasma firewall - dolphin - ark - kde system settings - Konsole - qgroundcontrol - konversation - kio - kde partition manager - subsurface - kde frameworks - codevis - kconfigxt
But in the end it’s the maintainers role to see if someone from upstream would be useful for arch as a packager, or if he just wants to waste more time of a non-paid position for no glory just for the sake of helping a distro he uses daily.
I'll gladly waste time on a non-paid position for no glory for the sake of helping the distro I use daily. It's called "contributing". https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Getting_involved I maintain AUR packages, troll #aot on IRC, report bugs and try to help track them down, use the testing repos and sign off on newly updated packages.. None of these things is difficult or overly time consuming and making yourself known by doing any one of them will have a significant positive impact on your application.
Today I’ll create an aur component for Codevis, a software to visualize large architectures Im developing for the past three years (that just got opensourced)
And I’ll also create a GPG key, and sign some email on this thread with it.
I like seeing new stuff going into the AUR. I forgot to mention the handful of packages i found on github just to put in the AUR. For nothing more than funsies, but they're being used by people which is awesome. (And entirely the point.) I guess my overall point is.. WHY do you want to be a Package Maintainer for Archlinux?