On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 11:34:34PM +0100, Jakub Klinkovský wrote:
Hey everyone, I'm sending my application to become a package maintainer, which is kindly sponsored by Sven (svenstaro) and Frederik (freswa).
## Who I am
My name is Jakub, but I'm mostly known as Lahwaacz online. I've been an Arch wiki admin since 2014 and also created the man.archlinux.org project.
In real life, I have scientific background and I'm interested in programming, automation and infrastructure. I write Python, C++ and CUDA (no Rust yet :-().
## What I want to do
I want to help with package maintenance in two general areas that are closest to me:
1. Due to my background, I'm using many weird scientific packages (almost) daily, including cuda, openmpi, vtk, paraview and more. Most of these are notorious for breaking often and I'd have to deal with this anyway, so I might as well directly co-maintain them.
2. As a wiki admin I could co-maintain some wiki-related packages, both for users and for backend deployment. The Arch wiki is based on MediaWiki which is currently deployed from a single git mono-repository that contains all necessary extensions (either bundled or as git submodules) but we would like to eventually use Arch packages for MediaWiki and its extensions. This is a long-term goal for me, however, since I have yet to learn how to do PHP packaging properly...
I may find also other areas where to invest my packaging time, but overall I imagine myself maintaining a small-ish number of packages and focusing on quality rather than quantity.
## Disclaimers
First, I think it is fair to acknowledge that I do not plan to deal with handling AUR requests, which is still associated to the role of a package maintainer. Dealing with the wiki is hard and time consuming in itself and I don't have the capacity to add another similarly exhausting responsibility.
I like Python as a language, but I dislike Python packaging and I don't see myself maintaining many Python packages in the future. I might change my opinion, though, since I would really love to see jupyterhub in the official repos: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jupyterhub
## My packages
My AUR packages: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?SeB=m&K=lahwaacz
I also maintain an unofficial [jlk] repo which contains many other AUR packages that I use: https://jlk.fjfi.cvut.cz/arch/repo.html
Feel free to bombard me with any questions or package reviews :-)
Best regards, Jakub / Lahwaacz
I confirm my sponsorship. This marks the beginning of the discussions period which will conclude in two weeks on 2023-11-26. The voting will start on the same day and conclude on 2023-12-03.