I'm twenty one years old and a senior at Duke University studying Biomedical Engineering with a minor in Economics. I have also been a web developer and systems administrator for about four years now and am currently working on a rather long and protracted project for the university. I have been using Linux on a daily basis for about seven years now starting with Red Hat Linux, then Debian, Gentoo and finally Arch Linux for the last three years. And I use C, C++, x86 ASM, Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, and Javascript on a daily basis. That is fairly impressive. Once I turn 21 I will barely be through regular school and just about to start studying. I have Arch installed on four servers in total as well as on one virtual machine. I'm not ashamed to admit that I run a Windows 7 notebook as my only physical computer; though it's only role these days is to not bother me while I SSH into my Linux machines. Let's not be ashamed. I'm using Windows 7 for delicious games but I *do* wonder about the excuse why a netbook should have to run it. :P I currently maintain thirty packages in the AUR, most of which I do not use but would be unhappy in seeing them orphaned. If you are a good maintainer and at least test but not usually use your
On 27.10.2010 06:33, Kaiting Chen wrote: packages, that should be alright.
I would like to become a Trusted User simply because I would like to maintain packages more effectively. Recently there's been a thread on aur-general about the possible removal of hundreds of packages from [community] which makes me very worried. Packages such as cacti, courier-*, ejabberd, freeradius*, ipsec-tools, monit, roundcubemail, scilab, and *ircd are very important to people who run Arch on the server such as myself. This list evinces a fundamental problem however that there is simply not enough manpower to maintain the current repositories. Because I am able (or hopefully will be deemed so by the powers that be/grant TU priveleges) I would like to help alleviate this condition. Arch allows me to focus on the work that I do; it should be obvious that helping to ensure that Arch functions smoothly and efficiently is a necessary task for anyone who has made this distribution a valuable part of their workflow. Great idea, many packages required by servers get little love right now. I've taken it upon myself to keep my mail stack maintained (courier-*). I'd be glad if there were more people helping out here. In more concrete terms of how I want to contribute, I would like to start by adopting python-openbabel, freeimage, metakit, gen2shp, tdl, python-bsddb, and other orphaned packages in [community] once I have the chance to take a closer look at the orphan list. I'd also like to pull smalltalk, burp, bti, liboauth, and vim-align into [community]. I would also like to work on bringing some of the packages in [community] up to date such as rsyslog, pyinotify, openntpd, and ngspice. Sounds like a plan. That's about all I can think of for now. Please feel free to ask any questions and thanks for taking the time to consider my application Your application failed in terms of entertainment but otherwise was fine.
All in all, this is +2. -- Sven-Hendrik