On 24/05/20 11:46AM, Giovanni Harting wrote:
Hey everyone.
Hey Giovanni 👋
I'm hereby applying as a package maintainer, which is kindly sponsored by David (dvzrv) and Jelle (jelly) and formally by Levente (anthraxx), for whom Jelle has taken over the sponsorship.
Thanks for applying and good luck in the process! 😋 Sorry for replying last minute, but I didn't find the time / got sidetracked with other things in the last week!
## Who
I'm Giovanni, also known as anonfunc or idlegandalf. I've been using Arch Linux as my day-to-day driver since 2013 and Linux in general since probably 2008 (mostly server-side until 2011-12, last Windows I actually used was 7). As for notable contributions, you might have heard of ALHP, which I started in 2020.
ALHP developed from the idea of utilising modern CPU extensions all the way back in Q4 2019 (after I had a quick Gentoo detour on one of my laptops). At the time, no x86_64 levels were defined, so the first rough outlines still considered building for specific gcc CPU-baselines, like Haswell for example (which seems crazy in hindsight). When the x86_64 levels were announced in 2020, I started developing a buildbot capable of doing the heavy lifting, at the time in Python. After ditching Python in 2021 (after I got annoyed of multi-process) and rewriting the buildbot in Go, the project launched in July 2021. At the time, ALHP only provided x86_64-v3, shortly after launch x86_64-v2 followed. In December 2023 the x86_64-v4 repo launched, after I got my hands on a machine capable of building v4. Not sure how many users it actually has, since I do not do any tracking, but as far as requests on the tier 0 mirror go (ALHP has 7 mirrors in total, one operated by myself), it seems to see some usage. The buildbot is completely FOSS, you can have a look down in the links section.
That sounds cool and like a very useful addition to the team! In which way did these endeavours make you contribute back to the Arch Linux ecosystem so far? Because your name only rings a bell for me regarding the ALHP project but not i.e. via bug reports, merge requests or similar 🤔 Then again I'm not part of the team for too long 😄
## Goals & Packages
I want to help with package maintenance and advance infrastructure topics with the overall goal of bringing x86_64-v3 and build automation to life, as well as helping with potential problems that may come with v3, since ALHP had plenty of those already.
Sounds good, especially since this is already ratified from the RFC side (RFC002) and can (in theory) just be started with!
As for packages, I have a few that I think would benefit the general Arch Linux audience by being promoted to official packages, mostly QoL stuff:
- batsignal
Is this an AUR package already? If yes I think I couldn't find it.
- wljoywake - jellyfin-mpv-shim (+ deps) - prismlauncher - victoriametrics - asus-numpad - mmdbinspect
With regard to votes & popularity some of these seem a bit low (with prismlauncher being the obvious outlier), so even though the related rules[0] are not enforced strictly some of these might need some extra consideration 🤔
I'm also open to co-maintainer roles if there are any packages in need. Candidates could include DevOps related packages like Grafana or packages from the Go ecosystem in general, since I use that language extensively.
Besides the mentioned categories, I'm also interested to co-maintain:
- home-assistant - jellyfin
## Links
AUR packages: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?SeB=m&K=anonfunc AUR source repo: https://somegit.dev/anonfunc/aur-packages
I had a quick look at your AUR packages and didn't find many extra comments to those of Antiz. Some things are weirdly indented, but well thats just nitpicking 😆
ALHP: https://somegit.dev/ALHP/ALHP.GO ALHP Status: https://status.alhp.dev/
Feel free to criticise PKGBUILDs to your heart's content :) Improvement is a continuous thing, so keep them coming.
Giovanni
Again, thanks for applying and I already got some ideas/questions looking at the repositories so I'm looking forward to having you on the team and discussing/implementing these things! 🚀 Cheers, chris [0]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Package_Maintainer_guidelines#Rules_for_pac...