On 18/11/2009, Ranguvar <ranguvar@archlinux.us> wrote:
Hello Archers,
This is Devin Cofer, aka Ranguvar. I'm writing because I have been thinking for a while about applying to become a Trusted User, and I feel that now I have enough basic knowledge of C, Bash, sed, and Perl to apply.
I maintain quite a few<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=Ranguvar>packages, and I'm very fast at updating them, if I may say so, going so far as to provide my own i686 builds for use by bin32-wine<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7915>when [extra] is taking a long time between updates :) The firefox-pgo <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22296> and firefox-pgo-beta <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22919> packages are not mine, but they were completely rewritten by me, as you can see from the comments there. I do officially maintain firefox-pgo-minefield<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32030> .
I have sometimes contributed to [extra] and [community] work; I sent an initial mail<http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2009-October/007004.html>to aur-general about updating LLVM to 2.6, and worked on the PKGBUILD for it. Also, I filed a bug <http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16165> for the speedup of Vim package building, and wrote a new script to handle fetching patches, which was much faster than the original (until another user used a better idea to make a far better package :p). Lastly, I have commented on other packages many times and suggested improvements (recent example being autoconf-compat<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7224>), and I submit regular bug reports and duplicate packages -- and I'm very active on the forums <http://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=18355>.
As a TU, I will continue to try to improve the quality of AUR PKGBUILDs as a whole, commenting and offering suggestions, deleting duplicates, and orphaning long-out-of-date packages. As for packages I bring into [community], I will probably end up focusing on development tools.
Xyne has kindly agreed to sponsor my application; he will likely reply to this soon. Thanks very much for considering me as a possible addition to the TU team!
-- Ranguvar
Wow, this dude really impressed me. Hope you will be soon aboard. -- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer