On Thu 02 Dec 2010 13:20 -0500, keenerd wrote:
Hello all. I am applying to become a TU. My sponsor is Xyne.
My name is Kyle Keen, though my handle for irc/bbs/the-last-12-years has been Keenerd. I've been using Arch for a while now, from back when it was still known for refusing to package info files. Before that I did a wee bit of dev work for Puppy Linux. I actually got a bash gui app (yay xdialog) into the ISO but please don't look up the code, it was my first bash script and is rather terrifying. Lately I am a 24 year old freelance electrical engineer and spend my days writing C, my nights writing Python and during the twilight hours some Bash.
Right now I host the bugbot in #archlinux-bugs and I've got a few AUR packages(1). Of them, ScrotWM and Slurm probably deserve to be in [community]. I've written several well-liked metatools for Arch including Pacgraph, Pacmatic, and Aurphan. Aurphan is the main reason for trying to apply.
Pierre requested a feature to cross check official packages as well as the AUR(2). I was a little shocked to find 35 official orphans on my system. Clearly, we are understaffed. Arch has been nothing short of amazing and I want to do what I can to help keep it going. Other goals include improving the maintenance tools and porting Arch to old or cheap architectures. I also mirrored the AUR for a while and have a nearly complete copy of the old comments from before the Great Table Drop that should be re-inserted.
Well, we have most of the comments, they just haven't been merged back into the database. I guess we can determine later if you have any others that might be missing. How exactly did you mirror the AUR? Do you know if there's a lot of this type of thing going on? I wish people would mention this sort of thing. Maybe if there -really- is a need we can make things more efficient and streamlined. Though I still don't see why anyone would really need a whole copy of the AUR, other than for research or something similar. Glad to see you applying for TU. Cheers!