Hi, On Monday 20 January 2014 23:32:08 Jonas Heinrich wrote:
Hi ArchLinux community, I like to apply as TU, sponsored by Lukas Fleischer (aka CryptoCrack), since my passion and work for ArchLinux continues since half a decade and I really would like to get more involved into development and package maintaining. My name is Jonas (my public key [1]), I'm 23 years old, computer science student in Karlsruhe, Germany. I switched to Linux in school while working voluntarily on a school server [2] and school internet cafe together with a class mate in our free time. Hacking on fun projects became on of my big hobbies and some of them are documented in my blog [3]. I get a lot of inspiration and exchange in my local hacker space, the Entropia e.V. [4] which is part of the CCC (Chaos Computer Club) [5] but also at work as a network administrator at the architecture faculty of my university. I love ArchLinux, using it on my servers (with several ArchLinux vms) and on my laptop, because it's simple, basic and fast. The wiki is also one of my favorite places in the community, because all the documentation is pragmatic and to the point. I constantly write new how-to's or improve instructions on other pages [6]. In my opinion, a well written Wiki/Doku, also for all the third-party software, is very important and one reason why I don't want to use Debian anymore for my projects. I learned how to write clean and sometimes complex PKGBUILDs over time and now maintaining up to 150 AUR packages [7]. Some of them are really important to me (using them on my server or integrated them to my projects) and I think also important to the community, so I would like to put them into the community repository. For example: archivemount, btar, dmtcp, etherpad-lite, freecad, gallery, gitlab, hlds, joomla, opentracker, pyload, python-libtorrent-rasterbar, sslstrip, etc. For other packages, I adopted them just to fix broken PKGBUILDs or I tried to port non-supported software to ArchLinux like Zenoss, oVirt or Kolab while working with their developers to improve ArchLinux support. At least, here are some of my experimental projects you can look at: p2pacman [8], pkgcheck [9], wikidict [10], carpc based on ArchLinux [11]. For further questions, you can find me on #archlinux at freenode or just ask them here on the mailinglist. Best regards, Jonas
I have looked quickly at your packages. Some of this has been said before. 1) For some packages you use bsdtar/tar in the package() function. It is not an error, but source files already unpacked into $srcdir. Maybe is it a better way to use "cp" (or "install") instead of "bsdtar"? 2) For some packages you don't use double quotes for $srcdir and/or $pkgdir variables. 3) PKGBUILDs for "ausweisapp", "centrafuseauto-beta", some of "courier-" and other packages may be less than it is. (If you will use "find -exec" for example.) But it isn't an error too. 4) Some of PKGBUILDs have "| return 1" function. 5) Some of your packages are out-of-date. 6) Why you do not use patches for some of your packages and use giant sed script? 7) Some of your packages have old VCS standart. 8) vim-paster really had not package() function. But some others look pretty. I understand that it is difficult to maintain a large number of packages. But it is a reason to disown some of them. I want ask you what are packages groups that you want maintain and why? Or have you no any general idea? -- С уважением, Е.Алексеев. Sincerely yours, E.Alekseev. e-mail: darkarcanis@mail.ru ICQ: 407-398-235 Jabber: arcanis@jabber.ru