Hello everybody! A few days ago, Timm Preetz (known as gummibaerchen on the AUR and forums) let me know that he was interested in becoming a TU to help keeping packages up to date as well as maintaining his current AUR packages to community. He is currently maintaining the following packages in AUR: avant-window-navigator java-gnome java-gnome-docs python-clutter telepathy-haze telepathy-sofiasip I have checked his packages and found some small issues like custom variables and missing categories, and Timm was quick to resolve those. In my opinion he shows that he has not only the skills to be a TU but also the necessary attention to details, so I will sponsor him. This email hereby opens the discussion period of 5 days! His introduction to me: ----------------------- My motivation to become a TU is mostly due to the fact that I get simply annoyed by outdated packages (may it be the 64bit-port or the PKGBUILD in AUR in general). When I first installed Arch Linux I was impressed how up to date the packages were. But now 'digging deeper' (into AUR) I see lots of outdated packages or incomplete PKGBUILDs (licence missing for example). As these are issues that are often discussed I thought it would be good to get the hands on myself. There no point in 'mirroring' and updating PKGBUILDs on my HDD and have no way to give anything of my changes back and therefore indirectly force other people who want recent packages to do the same. So my idea was, that I could become a TU and 'collect orphaned packages' (so I just have to contact the 'actual' maintainer to ask what's up if a package isn't updated for long and don't have to bug one of the other TUs for orphaning packages). There is also a good number of outdated packages in AUR that I would maintain myself. Also this would give me the opportunity to share my 64-bit binary packages if they're needed for community. My main areas that I am currently interested in (and therefore have the most PKGBUILDs of) are docs, bindings and 'composited stuff'. One more to add: For the java-gnome packages for example I also worked together with the upstream maintainer to get the configure script working properly on Arch, and having install-instructions on their website. This is also something I would repeat for other packages whenever needed. Coming to myself, there is not too much to say. I am born in the 9th of February in 1990, male, German, visiting a grammar school and having math and physics as honours. Despite of the distro I am an absolutely GNOME/GTK/GObject-Fan, Python and Java programmer and LaTeX writer. In my (technical) spare time I'm actually mostly working on a 2D racing game using Clutter and improve algorithms we worked out in the CS-class. Timm ----------------- Regards, Bjørn