On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 11:26:22AM -0800, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
Hi everyone
I would like to apply for a Arch Trusted User position. It is sponsored by my co-worker and bright engineer David Reisner.
My name is Anatol Pomozov, I grew up in Belarus but live in USA now. I am an open-source enthusiast who uses Linux since about 2005. I've been using several distros mostly Debian based. About 2.5 years ago, when Ubuntu in-place upgrade killed my system once again, I've decided to give a try to a rolling-release distro.
I had heard that Arch was difficult to use and unstable so I've been skeptical that Arch would survive at my computers for a long time. At my surprise Arch installation was easy and system was fast and stable. Documentation is clean and very helpful. And package manager is *FAST*! Yeah! I fell in love with Arch from the very first day. A few months later all my home computers were moved to Arch. And despite that I usually do crazy experiments at my home machines I've never had serious problems with Arch. Well, the only problem with Arch was in systemd-207 that prevented my btrfs-root machine from booting.
About a year ago I started playing more active role in Arch community. I adopted a lot of broken and out-of-date packages. Currently I own 350+ packages [1]. A lot of packages are for ruby gems that previously were out-of-date or had broken dependencies. I improved existing gem2arch tool [2] and it helps me with ruby packages herding.
At my day job I work on Linux kernel development/support at a large server farm. My daily activity includes a lot of debugging, performance profiling, code archaeology both for linux kernel and in-house userspace code. Some of my linux changes went upstream, here are few of them:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/12/391 http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=134750749009884&w=2 https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/1/171
Google Chromebook developers reported that my last patch fixed one of their top kernel crashes!
Recently me and my 6 y/o son started learning microelectronics and digital design. Maybe some day we'll create MIPS-like CPU.
Why do I want to become a TU? I like Arch and would like to keep it improving. It means making packages better, participate in important discussions that define where the distro moves.
The short/mid terms plans for me are: - move some of my aur packages to community: rethinkdb, codespell, tup, mldonkey, v8. There are some other aur packages that I use and would also like to see in [community]: fatsort, digital design related tools, ... - add android-sdk-* packages. Current AUR packages download binaries and install binaries to /opt/bin. The binaries are 32-bit. Instead we should build SDK from sources and provide proper 64/32-bit binaries. This might be tricky as Android build system is complicated. - request moving Apache to [community] and finally update this package to 2.4
I can help with linux kernel issues, especially if they are related to storage/block subsystem.
I also have experience with Ruby. This is my favorite scripting language that I use for 10 years now and I'll be glad to help with Ruby in Arch as well.
[1] aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=anatolik [2] https://github.com/anatol/gem2arch
WOW, many packages :) I just found something somewhat fishy in your subtle package: patch -p1 < ../do_not_relink_binaries_on_install.diff I'm not entirely sure i can break the build but i think it would be best practice to do "$srcdir/do_not_relink_binaries_on_install.diff" For the rest all looks superb :) -- Ike