On 07/15/13 at 11:00pm, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
On 15.07.2013 22:31, Dicebot wrote:
[sponsor : Sven-Hendrik Haase] [AUR account : https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Dicebot] [IRC : Dicebot @ irc.freenode.net]
Hello,
Long story short - I am insterested in becoming a Trusted User and taking care of packages related to D programming language.
I have been using Arch Linux for last ~5 years but that does not really matter as I have never spent any considerable time maintaining packages. What does matter though is that I am quite active member of D community and familiar with minor details about its current infrastructure and have personal interest in improving user experience in that domain.
I have been maintaing reference D compiler package (dmd2) in AUR before its inclusion into main repositories and kept contacting Sven-Hendrik with various improvement proposals after. At some point in the relatively long mail thread he has suggested to make a TU application so that I can take over those packages and maintain them directly - which is the primary motivating reason behind this mail.
As my general competence level as a packager relatively low I am planning to solely focus on domain I am proficient with - D compilers, libraries and notable applications. Also contacting with D maintainers in other distros to ensure reasonable consistency.
Regards,
Dicebot
I'm confirming my sponsorship of this dude. I'd like to hand over the D toolchain to someone else who actually uses D but I think it should stay within official Arch repos.
He has helped me with the official D packages in the past. Furthermore, I think this person shows good technical competence in general and can probably be trusted with a few unrelated packages as well. I don't consider the low self-perceived level of packaging experience a problem in this case.
Sven
It's nice to see someone apply who is willing to maitain the D toolchain. But are you willing to maintain non-related D packages in [community] which are currently orphan or is there a certain category of packages you like to maintain? -- Jelle van der Waa