[aur-general] TU Application - Daniel Wallace (gtmanfred)
Hello, I am applying to be a Trusted User. My name is Daniel Wallace, and I am a 22 year old computer science major at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA. I have been using linux for just over 2 years now, switching to Archlinux about a year and a half ago. My irc handle, aur username, and forums account are all gtmanfred. As I said I started using Archlinux about a year and a half ago and did not immediately understand what exactly I was doing or at all how the package manager worked. I started running archlinux on my netbook because Windows was too slow on it, and one of my roomates at the time did some amazing things that I just didn't understand at all. In December I started frequenting the irc channel, starting on the day before Christmas when I had problems with upgrading due to mtab. After about 2 months I started to think about applying to be a Trusted User and ask Thomas Dziedzic (td123) to be my sponser. I spent a lot of time learning bash and mainly zsh so that I could make the zsh completion pacman-key and makepkg to be released in the next big pacman release. I recently started learning haskell, and even more recently became facinated with C while throwing myself in and trying to make patches in response to some of the bugs on the bugtracker and have started to read Learn C the Hard Way. My dotfiles and everything are fairly messy and spread out right now between github and my cgit as I am trying to consolidate them before a commit to organize everything [1] and [2]. I am currently maintaining 35 packages in unsupported [3]. I am still getting used to the forums, but I am very active in #archlinux and looking to helping #archlinux-women setup classes and see what happens with them in the future as well. I have also more recently started trying to contribute to the wiki and keeping it up to date. I would really like to be a TU because I find PKGBUILDs and the future possibilities for Archlinux to be fascinating and I would really like to be able to give back and help this wonderful community to continue to grow. I don't really have any packages that I think really need to be pulled to community, maybe at some point later, but I would really like to start making zsh completion for a lot of packages which do not have it already. I could start by maintaining the zathura plugins and the haskell-syb package. Like I said earlier, td123 is my sponser and my gpg key is here http://code.gtmanfred.com/cgit/dotfiles.git/tree/signature.asc?h=tower 1. http://github.com/gtmanfred 2. http://code.gtmanfred.com 3. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=gtmanfred Thanks, Daniel Wallace
I confirm that I am his sponsor. Let the discussion begin!
On 10 June 2012 11:23, Daniel Wallace <daniel.wallace@gatech.edu> wrote:
I don't really have any packages that I think really need to be pulled to community, maybe at some point later, but I would really like to start making zsh completion for a lot of packages which do not have it already. I could start by maintaining the zathura plugins and the haskell-syb package.
So your main contribution as you see it now would be zsh completion? -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1
On 10/06/12 08:06, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote:
On 10 June 2012 11:23, Daniel Wallace <daniel.wallace@gatech.edu> wrote:
I don't really have any packages that I think really need to be pulled to community, maybe at some point later, but I would really like to start making zsh completion for a lot of packages which do not have it already. I could start by maintaining the zathura plugins and the haskell-syb package.
So your main contribution as you see it now would be zsh completion?
-- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1
A list of AUR maintained packages would be useful, so below is the url. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&K=gtmanfred&do_Search=Go&detail=1&C=0&SeB=m&SB=n&SO=a&PP=50&outdated= I know gtmanfred from irc and he is a really helpful and I think he has the skills to become a TU. I just wonder what kind of packages you like to maintain as in which category? -- Jelle van der Waa
On 10 June 2012 19:07, Jelle van der Waa <jelle@vdwaa.nl> wrote:
A list of AUR maintained packages would be useful, so below is the url.
Jelle, it's there. Footnote no. 3. -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 02:06:02PM +0800, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote:
On 10 June 2012 11:23, Daniel Wallace <daniel.wallace@gatech.edu> wrote:
I don't really have any packages that I think really need to be pulled to community, maybe at some point later, but I would really like to start making zsh completion for a lot of packages which do not have it already. I could start by maintaining the zathura plugins and the haskell-syb package.
So your main contribution as you see it now would be zsh completion?
-- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1
I would consider that my biggest contribution in the form of code thus far, but I consider helping people in #archilnux to be a larger contribution. I should also clarify the zsh completion stuff. I have been working on a couple of different utilities and plan on submitting them upstream in the near future.
2012-06-10 16:57 keltezéssel, Daniel Wallace írta:
On 10 June 2012 11:23, Daniel Wallace <daniel.wallace@gatech.edu> wrote:
I don't really have any packages that I think really need to be pulled to community, maybe at some point later, but I would really like to start making zsh completion for a lot of packages which do not have it already. I could start by maintaining the zathura plugins and the haskell-syb package. So your main contribution as you see it now would be zsh completion?
-- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1 I would consider that my biggest contribution in the form of code thus far, but I consider helping people in #archilnux to be a larger contribution. I should also clarify the zsh completion stuff. I have been working on a couple of different utilities and plan on submitting
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 02:06:02PM +0800, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote: them upstream in the near future.
Hi, I can't see a strong reason why you want to be a trusted user, since the main tasks are maintaining packages in [community] and managing AUR. It's nice that you want to make zsh completion scripts (however, it's generally an upstream task), but in a TU application, I would like to see, what kind of packages that you interested in maintaining in the future. What kind of packages are you interested in? Is there any popular packages in AUR that you may want to maintain in [community] in the future (even if it's not currently maintained by you)? -- György
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 09:25:59PM +0200, Balló György wrote:
2012-06-10 16:57 keltezéssel, Daniel Wallace írta:
On 10 June 2012 11:23, Daniel Wallace <daniel.wallace@gatech.edu> wrote:
I don't really have any packages that I think really need to be pulled to community, maybe at some point later, but I would really like to start making zsh completion for a lot of packages which do not have it already. I could start by maintaining the zathura plugins and the haskell-syb package. So your main contribution as you see it now would be zsh completion?
-- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1 I would consider that my biggest contribution in the form of code thus far, but I consider helping people in #archilnux to be a larger contribution. I should also clarify the zsh completion stuff. I have been working on a couple of different utilities and plan on submitting
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 02:06:02PM +0800, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote: them upstream in the near future.
Hi,
I can't see a strong reason why you want to be a trusted user, since the main tasks are maintaining packages in [community] and managing AUR. It's nice that you want to make zsh completion scripts (however, it's generally an upstream task), but in a TU application, I would like to see, what kind of packages that you interested in maintaining in the future.
What kind of packages are you interested in? Is there any popular packages in AUR that you may want to maintain in [community] in the future (even if it's not currently maintained by you)?
-- György
Good question, I would really like to bring pianobar, archlinux-lxdm-theme, ttf-symbola, termite-git, and livestreamer. One of the big reasons I would like to be a TU is to help. There are 5586 packages in community, and 34 TU's listed on [1] which is just over 164 packages per TU. Basically my goal as a TU is to do my best to help archlinux and the aur be the best that it can and to give back to the great community that has evolved around Archlinux. 1. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Trusted_Users
participants (5)
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Balló György
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Daniel Wallace
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Jelle van der Waa
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Rashif Ray Rahman
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Thomas Dziedzic