On 2/24/19 6:24 PM, Drew DeVault via aur-general wrote:
Hiya! Jerome convinced me to finally apply for TU, and Sven-Hendrik agreed to co-sponsor my application (both Cc'd).
I'm a generalist that works on free software full time. I maintain the following AUR packages:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=sircmpwn
I also maintain a third-party Arch repo and oversee some automation for helping to build and publish new packages:
https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-pkgbuilds
I'm also the upstream maintainer for several packages in community, including wlroots, sway, and scdoc; and I maintain numerous packages for Alpine Linux as well. I maintain many other free software projects, most notably sourcehut, and I also contribute to many projects maintained by others as well.
Your application sounds interesting and I generally admire your open-source work.
I think Jerome has been hoping for some relief from the packages I maintain the upstream for, so I may start by relieving that burden. I'd also like to move the samuari package into community, and likely some of the Python packages from my third-party repository as well.
What is samurai, exactly? It claims to be "a ninja-compatible build tool" but I'm not sure what the comparative advantages are supposed to be. (Aside: If I wanted another build tool rewrite, it would probably be meson because it would actually be super interesting to have a meson generator that could be used for bootstrapping an OS without requiring python as a prerequisite.)
Outside of packaging, I have also been doing some exploratory work that I hope will lead to finally moving Arch Linux from SVN to git.
As a long time fan and user of Arch Linux, I'm looking forward to the chance to give back to the community. If anyone has any questions, please let me know. What are your thoughts on things like https://todo.sr.ht/%7Esircmpwn/scdoc/17 As you've mentioned scdoc, I recollect that it builds statically against
<3 libc, and ("by design") does not respect the makepkg.conf LDFLAGS -- we currently override this: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packa... -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User