On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Jeff Horelick <jdhore1@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi! My name is JD Horelick and i'd like to become a TU. I'm 23 and working as a sysadmin for a decent-sized company (linux and windows stuff). Hi, nice too meet you
I first started with ArchLinux in early 2007 (if i had to guess) and ever since then, i've loved it. I think pacman is quite possibly the greatest package manager i've used and i think the PKGBUILD package format is quite nice. I haven't done a crazy amount of development on Arch, but i've been using linux since 1999 and i was a Debian Developer for ~3 years (where i maintained 10-15 packages).
Good i think the same about pacman and PKGBUILD package format. According to google you on some ubuntuforums i got this (March 2008): * http://www.linuxactionshow.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=2299 * http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=734533 Plus do you have a link or something that certifies that you was a Debian Developer?, just for *curiosity*?
As a TU I will offer my knowledge, skills and time to improve my favourite distribution and it's packages. Some of my specific goals as a TU are:
* Work on expanding the community repo (for example, clutter is in community, but clutter-gtk, clutter-cairo and clutter-gtk are still in AUR :( ). * Make sure packages in AUR/community are working. For example, i tried to build dpkg (i think...It's late) from aur a bit ago and the URL changed, if i was a TU (and i will probably do this tomorrow anyway), i would email the guy and say like: "Hey, please fix the 404 on your package or i'm going to take it over".
As bfinch said, you can't go with this attitude; usually TU's are loved by the Arch Linux Community heh (just kidding), but we have to try to be kind people, "i'm going to take it over isn't good".
* My goal is to upload, fix or update a minimum of 1 package a day.
Good, but you can still doing this by AUR(upload /update / fix packages), Flyspray (report bugs on other packages) :)
In my free time I like...wait...I have free time? ahh...but seriously, in my free time...Well...I'm a atypical computer geek...I like watching me some movies/TV, playing video games...goin out and doing some parkour...having fun. Oh, and tacos...Tacos FTW!
Who doesn't! :)
The final thing, Allan was so kind as to sponsor my application and here is the list of packages i have uploaded to the AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=jdhore Let's start up the inquisition :P Any questions and suggestions will be answered as quickly as possible (I'm usually around from 1PM EST to 5AM EST daily).
Well i trust Allan very much, if he decides that you are be ready to be a TU i will trust on him :), but i am just *curious*.
Thank you all very much. I very much hope to become part of the Arch team. Sincerely, JD
Thank you for your interest to help Arch Linux Project :).
In case my AUR link gets buried/is hard to see: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=jdhore
I reviewed your packages (and i have to say that if you goal is to upload a package daily you should start now..) but what about x86_64? have you x86_64 machines? is good to know about how build machines do you have and if you will build on other architectures. Hoping your answer.. Angel -- angvp @ irc.freenode.net Linux Counter: #359909 Arch Linux Trusted User