On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 08:52:37AM +0100, Remi Gacogne via aur-general wrote:

Hello everyone,

My name is Remi Gacogne, and I hereby apply to join the Trusted Users team, kindly sponsored by Levente Polyak and Morten Linderud.

I confirm my sponsorship of Remi :)

I have known Remi since the winter of 2016 when I met the security team during that years Chaos Communication Congress (he thought I was jelle :D). Along with funding the security team with anthraxx he has been contributing a lot to the security team the past years and it's a long overdue application.

Super glad we finally got around to this<3

On 11/13/20 8:52 AM, Remi Gacogne via aur-general wrote:

Hello everyone,

My name is Remi Gacogne, and I hereby apply to join the Trusted Users team, kindly sponsored by Levente Polyak and Morten Linderud.

I'm 37 years old and live in Paris, France. My journey with Linux started around 1999 with Mandrake, quickly replaced by Slackware which has been my favourite distribution until I fell in love with Arch, around 2009. Since then I have been involved in several aspects of the life of the Arch community like the wiki and the bug tracker [1], but my main contributions have been to the security team, often bugging you folks with security issues in your packages :) You can find me on Freenode and OFTC under the nick of rgacogne.

I have contributed to many FOSS projects over the years, mainly by writing and fixing C, C++ and Python code, hopefully not introducing too many bugs in the process. Some of them can be found on my GitHub profile [2]. I have held positions as a sysadmin, security engineer and software engineer in the past, and am currently working for the PowerDNS [3] open-source company as a software engineer.

In my spare time I enjoy climbing, hiking, paragliding and trail running, as well as drinking beers. I'm also involved in a few non-profit organisations, far away from computers.

I am currently maintaining a few packages in the AUR [4], although most of the popular ones I used to maintain having been moved to community by existing TUs along the way, with my blessing and gratitude. As a TU I would like to move two of the remaining ones to community:

• bgpq3
• dnsdist

My main motivation for becoming a TU is however not to move those, but to relieve the workload of other TUs by helping maintain and/or adopting existing community packages. For obvious reasons I have already discussed adopting the powerdns and powerdns-recursor packages from anthraxx, but I would also be interested in adopting some orphans here and there, like for example hiredis, libopenraw and nsd. I should also mention that being a TU would be very useful to my work on the security team, since I would then be able to help fix critically vulnerable packages. My preferred, old-fashioned, way of keeping track of packages updates is to subscribe to mailing-lists, but I have come to appreciate the use of tools like nvchecker in doing so as well :)

Cheers,

Remi

I hereby confirm my sponsorship of Remi :)

Basically the same story as Morten mentioned, we also first met in meat space during the Chaos Communication Congress, however he did not thought that i was jelle as well :P

I got to know him on multiple real life and virtual occasions as a very friendly and kind person with a profound technical knowledge and lot of contributions. I have no doubt that we will be a valuable Trusted User and strengthen our team -- and on top will gain a bit more scope of action for the Security Team duties.

Let the discussion period officially begin :)

cheers, Levente

On Fri, 2020-11-13 at 08:52 +0100, Remi Gacogne via aur-general wrote:

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Hello,

Remi would be a great addition to the team. I can testify he loves beers and he's kind.

Regards,

Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer