Hi, Sven-Hendrik Haase is sponsoring my application as a trusted user. I thought about applying as a TU for some time now, I think the selection of packages provided by Arch is already great but there is always space for additional quality software in community and I hope to help with that. Here's a little background about myself: I'm a 28yr old italian guy, working as a system administrator and developer at a company that provides web-services, hosting and housing solutions. I first tried linux out of curiosity back when Mandriva was still called Mandrake, but I didn't like it at all and the RPM system made me cry tears of blood. I didn't linux again for a couple of years and then I tried gentoo. I was at my last year of high school and, being already a developer at heart, I wasn't scared but rather really interested by its packaging system that required extensive time of compilation but providing extreme customization possibilities at the same time. That was the time when I finally dropped Windows for good and I kept using gentoo for years as my primary os, while only checking out other distros every once in a while. In all this years I tried many other distributions both out of personal curiosity and for work: Suse, Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, [K]Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Slackware, Oracle Linux and of course Arch! plus some BSDs (FreeBSD and Mac OSX), but I still like Arch the best. Like I said, I am a developer at heart and I released some applications [1] as opensource, first as GPL but I then became more of a BSD/MIT guy. The most successful of them all has been a grafical frontend for embedded devices such as gaming handhelds which I developed (using SDL/C++) initially for the GP2X [2] but was later ported to many other devices by other developers/communities, called GMenu2X [3]. I am a confident developer who loves the Python language, but I also user very often PHP, C++, Bash (for scripts of course) and other languages. My work as a system administrator involves installing and configuring machines (Arch based whenever possible) with a variety of server softwares, and that's where I will probably focus as a TU. I already maintain a private repository of packages that help me keep the aforementioned machines up-to-date.
From this packages I selected an initial list of what I plan to move to community:
- percona-server - mariadb (refactored to replace mysql, unlike the one in AUR. See [4]) - nagios-nrpe - nagios-plugins - nmon - ttf-ubuntu-font-family - rt3562sta - arp-scan - e4rat - mtop - php-mongo - pngcrush - supervisor - vdfuse - vbox-runner You can see on the AUR [5] and on github [6] that I have written already a pretty long list of PKGBUILDs including the popular dropbox. If you have any question, just ask. Thanks! [1] https://github.com/mtorromeo/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X [3] http://mtorromeo.github.com/gmenu2x/ [4] https://github.com/mtorromeo/archlinux-packages/tree/master/mariadb-mysql-re... [5] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=mtorromeo [6] https://github.com/mtorromeo/archlinux-packages