Hello Archers and Arch overlords! # Introduction: My name is Morten Linderud, or better known by Foxboron. I'm writing this application to join the TU team. My sponsor is Jelle van der Waa. # About me: I'm 23 years, and currently live in Bergen, Norway. I have a bachelors degree in Information science, and currently working towards a masters degree in the same field. I also work part-time with infrastructure and devops at a small company called Apility. I have been active with FOSS since 2012, and have contributed to several tools and projects. The most notable is probably Hylang[1] where I have been a core developer since 2013. In my spare time I enjoy playing guitar, learning photography, attending conferences and volunteer work for LAN-parties, the local Game Jam and student organizations "Beer and Programming", where we drink beer and discuss programming, and Fribyte, hosting and misc IT-services for student organizations in Bergen where i'm currently second in charge. # Arch Linux related: Arch Linux has been my daily driver since 2013, although I have worked with Linux and Ubuntu for few years prior as a secondary OS. I have maintained AUR packages since 2015, adopting orphaned packages and created new ones. During last years Chaos Communication Congress I got in touch with anthraxx and shibumi. They introduced me to their security meet up along with jelle and rgacogne. This ended up with me assisting the reviewing of security advisories, and i have now added as a CVE reporter to the team. I have also been added to the tester team, and done small contributions on the Archwiki and security-tracker, along with tedious amounts of rambling on #archlinux-offtopic.^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W # TU pledges: As a TU I'll move the following packages from the AUR to community: - protege - ttf-font-awesome - cryptomator - pass-otp - nageru And adopt the following packages from community: - rofi - go-md2man - python-xapp - python-send2trash - python-pycountry - python-autobahn I would also love to help out with Python and Go packages. # Other projects: signoff[2] is a tool I have written that helps testers with signing off on packages they have installed from testing. It comes with neat auto-completions and enough commands that it should replace the signoff page. Several testers are using this to signoff packages in the testing repositories. I have also worked on other tools that may benefit the Arch Linux community in the future. Most notable is a tool that could solve the remote GPG signing issue that was discussed on pacman-dev in 2011[3], with no solutions back then. I currently have a point of concept written in golang that could support this[4]. The end goal is to create an API and signing tool. The other project is a package build system[5] that uses docker as an OS abstraction, and builds packages proper with chroots inside. It builds on top of buildbot[6]. It's far from feature complete, but the plan is to support distributed package building, and dispatch rebuilds based on dependencies. I have been using it to manage my own AUR packages. Thanks for reading, and may the tacos be with you. # Links: [1]: http://docs.hylang.org/en/stable/ [2]: https://github.com/Foxboron/archweb-signoff-helper [3]: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2011-June/013333.html [4]: https://github.com/Foxboron/remote-sign [5]: https://github.com/Foxboron/arch-auto-build [6]: https://buildbot.net/ -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16