[aur-general] ArchLinux TU Application: Fabio Castelli (Muflone)
Hi everyone My name's Fabio Castelli (aka Muflone) from Italy and I wish to apply to become a TU for ArchLinux to maintain some packages in the community repository. My TU sponsor is György Balló. I actually work as a software developer in a local private company and I use GNU/Linux since the 1998, having started with Slackware 2.0. Many years have passed through Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu and finally ArchLinux that actually I use daily at home and at my job place since a couple of years. Debian is still often used for software packaging, to deploy services in my network and for less experienced colleagues that needs some GNU/Linux environment in my job place. My experience in development is long term, starting in '80s with C=64 Basic, actually I work daily in Python (under Windows, GNU/Linux and i5/OS, both desktop, server and web platforms), Delphi and VB (under Windows), RPG/400 and CL (under i5/OS) and many other things which I use less often, like C or J2EE. My open source contributions are a really long list but let's try to not be boring: - maintainer for over 160 packages in the AUR, most of them updated often: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=Muflone https://github.com/muflone/pkgbuilds/ - maintainer for some Debian packages: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=muflone@vbsimple.net https://alioth.debian.org/projects/python-apps/ - author of various open source softwares: http://www.muflone.com/english.html https://github.com/muflone/ https://code.google.com/u/102825094329389897213/ https://www.openhub.net/accounts/Muflone - written hundreds of articles for an Italian website around VB6 development through the 1998 and 2004: http://www.vbsimple.net/ - written hundreds of articles for an Italian website around Ubuntu through the 2009 and the 2011: http://ubuntrucchi.wordpress.com/ - support in the Italian Ubuntu forum, I was the second most active member of the forum through the 2009 and the 2012: http://forum.ubuntu-it.org/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=73229 - support and founder of LQH (Linux Quality Help), an Italian GNU/Linux forum where normal users could ask their questions and only the experts group could offer support, resulting in higher quality service, ran only from highly experienced users through the 2009 and the 2012: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.linuxqualityhelp.it/supporto - written tenth of Italian video guides around PyGTK development through the 2008 and the 2010: http://pygtk.wordpress.com/ - written a couple of articles around GNOME Shell in the 2011: http://gnomeshell.wordpress.com/ - could continue but better stopping here.. too boring. I'm sorry! ArchLinux is actually my favorite GNU/Linux distributions and I think I could do a lot of work in enhancing this great distribution. What I love about ArchLinux is the perfect control it gives to me and it needs from me. Every time I need some software, I package it and then I publish it under AUR. I try to apply an old Microsoft rule: "Never ever write the same thing twice", so if the software resulted useful to me then it could be useful for other users and AUR is a perfect place where to find stuff. There are a lot of packages that I wish to move in the community repository: hfsprogs, kompozer, sweethome3d, gmtp, arista, spyder/spyder3, sbackup, gwakeonlan, gespeaker, remmina-plugin-*, python-ptrace. There are also packages maintained from other users that I wish to see in community repository: dex2jar, dmg2img, firefox-theme-adwaita and thunderbird-theme-adwaita, gigolo, gscan2pdf, httrack, linkchecker, loggedfs, netactview, pacmanlogviewer, parallel-python, pyrenamer. I read daily the AUR general and AUR requests mailing lists but I never participate in the discussions, after many years of discussions in other ML and forums I lost the pleasure in writing stuff inside the communities. The same applies to IRC, too much time spent in helping others (I was also HelpOp in #irchelp) forced me to away even from IRC. My job coincided with my favorite hobby so, apart my personal projects (see GitHub) I love reading heavy books (technical, development, sysadmin, networking but also theater or classic novels) and watching films when the TV is not owned by my gf. Thank you for reading up to here. Best regards Fabio Castelli / Muflone
On 7/30/14, Muflone
My name's Fabio Castelli (aka Muflone) from Italy and I wish to apply to become a TU for ArchLinux to maintain some packages in the community repository. My TU sponsor is György Balló.
Good to see you applying! Your technical chops look pretty solid (except don't use the cute DLAGENT from iseriesaccess in anything official), and I already use some of your packages. I've got a multipart question. Obviously the more responsibilities you have and the more you push yourself to improve, the more likely you are to make a mistake. I don't know enough Italian to rummage through your 18 thousand forum posts, but I figure there must be at least one good example of your character in there. Can you share a link to past conversation (mailing list, forum, bug report, whatever) where you made a mistake, someone noticed, you took responsibility and fixed it? My apologies for the bluntness of the question, but I feel this is probably the only personality trait that matters to get along with the other TUs. -Kyle http://kmkeen.com
Hello
(except don't use the cute DLAGENT from iseriesaccess in anything official)
I'm open to suggestions how to handle the packaging of applications whose source files cannot be redistributed or directly downloaded (the IBM website requires you first login to your account, then that you accept some license then that you skip the slayer and after a long journey they will allow you to download the file you are interested in).
I've got a multipart question. Obviously the more responsibilities you have and the more you push yourself to improve, the more likely you are to make a mistake. I don't know enough Italian to rummage through your 18 thousand forum posts, but I figure there must be at least one good example of your character in there. Can you share a link to past conversation (mailing list, forum, bug report, whatever) where you made a mistake, someone noticed, you took responsibility and fixed it? My apologies for the bluntness of the question, but I feel this is probably the only personality trait that matters to get along with the other TUs.
This is a really interesting question. A damn difficult question but still good. The first premise is that I don't participate in the ubuntu-it forum anymore since 2012 except a couple of threads related to my projects where I offer support or receive unofficial bugs reports. Another premise is that any ubuntu-it user could confirm you that I've a spicy nature, not in evil sense but I barely bear spam, offtopics or personal attacks inside the communities. If it could worth something, in many years of forum posting I was never banned or suspended in any place. It's undeniable that could be difficult to convince me or drag me to a discussion where I cannot see any useful point, I think is better to avoid the whole discussion after reporting its uselessness. The best word that could describe my character is pedantic, my favorite lintian flag to check Debian packages. To reply to Kyle's question, an example of your request could be this thread: http://forum.ubuntu-it.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=394096&p=3090654#p3090654 "ho fatto confusione tra i tuoi messaggi e quelli di tony e me ne scuso. mi era sembrato che avessi copiato i suoi messaggi invece che scrivere i tuoi, ho un po' di febbre addosso e non connetto molto. sara` meglio che vada a dormire." it could be translated in "I made confusion between your (JKWest) messages and those of tony (another user whose messages were later deleted to keep the discussion clean) and I apologize. I seemed that you copied his messages instead of writing yours. I have a bit of fever and I don't understand (we use the verb "connect" as to be mentally connected to someone's words) a lot. It would be better that I would go to sleep." I'm not so crazy to tell you that I'm always calm or smooth, but I try hard always to keep my words clean, as an ex school teacher I think this is always the best way to be heard or believed. Another damn fault is that I talk (and write) too much. Sorry again. Best regards -- Muflone
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