It is really great to hear that you want to help out!
But as you mentioned you don't have any packages in the AUR. How do we know you qualify for the job ? Did you do anything Arch related ? Do you have any project you work on ?

Best would be to take a bunch of packages in the AUR and show that you are capable of creating and maintaining packages.

On Jan 4, 2008 6:06 PM, Chess Griffin < chess@chessgriffin.com> wrote:
Timm Preetz wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 09:00 -0500, Chess Griffin wrote:
>> Although I am not a TU, I would be happy to help build these packages as
>> I have an x86_64 machine.  Once I have an updated PKGBUILD and binary
>> package, what would be the best way for me to get them to into the right
>> hands?
>>
>
> Hmm, are you interested in becoming a TU? I think that would be the most
> common practise.

Yes, most definitely.  As I mentioned in my earlier introductory email,
I've been packaging for other operating systems for awhile now, but
would like to contribute to Arch.  I have an x86_64 machine as well as
several i686 machines.  I've been lurking here for 3-4 years and have
been building my own packages from time to time so I'm pretty
comfortable with the process.

>
> I'm not sure whether other TU take binary packages by mail and publish
> them.
>

I understand.  I plan to adopt some orphaned PKGBUILDS in AUR, but in
the meantime it seemed like there was a need and so I thought I would
jump in and help.


again we really appreciate that you want to help :). It is just we can't put binary packages in community that we have not created ourselves. All kind of bad things may happen one day if we start with that, as you may understand.

Ronald