[aur-general] TU Application / Looking for sponsor
Hi, I'd like to apply for the TU position, and as I don't have a sponsor yet it'd be great if somebody would be kind enough to take me on :) A little bit about myself: I'm 26 and I live close to Vienna, Austria. The past couple of years I've worked as a database developer / consultant, then as a C# programmer (with a couple of additional tasks like building and maintaining our SVN / Trac server). In my free time, I've also been playing around with C++ and Python. I've been using Arch for around 2 years. I haven't had much linux experience before that - if I remember correctly it was around 1-2 months of Ubuntu and Gentoo. I regularly lurk on the forums and maintain a few packages in AUR ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=schuay ). Generally, I'm mostly interested in maintaining games. However I'm more than willing to help out where it is needed. Out of my AUR packages, I'd consider taking firehol, me-tv and stone-soup to community. I have a decent pc (3ghz dual core, 6G ram) available to build for both i686 and x86_64. schuay
Le mercredi 25 août 2010 13:30:35, Jakob Gruber a écrit :
Hi,
I'd like to apply for the TU position, and as I don't have a sponsor yet it'd be great if somebody would be kind enough to take me on :)
A little bit about myself: I'm 26 and I live close to Vienna, Austria. The past couple of years I've worked as a database developer / consultant, then as a C# programmer (with a couple of additional tasks like building and maintaining our SVN / Trac server). In my free time, I've also been playing around with C++ and Python.
I've been using Arch for around 2 years. I haven't had much linux experience before that - if I remember correctly it was around 1-2 months of Ubuntu and Gentoo. I regularly lurk on the forums and maintain a few packages in AUR ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=schuay ).
Generally, I'm mostly interested in maintaining games. However I'm more than willing to help out where it is needed. Out of my AUR packages, I'd consider taking
firehol, me-tv and stone-soup
to community.
I have a decent pc (3ghz dual core, 6G ram) available to build for both i686 and x86_64.
schuay
Look at your packages, they are pretty well maintained except they should be updated in regards to last pacman features (return 1 & missing package() function) Searching a bit on the great internet, i've found some of your contributions. I guess you got the ability to be a good TU. Let me be your Sponsor. Regards, Laurent Carlier
On 25 August 2010 20:08, Laurent Carlier <lordheavym@gmail.com> wrote:
Look at your packages, they are pretty well maintained except they should be updated in regards to last pacman features (return 1 & missing package() function)
That one is not very important. Just update your PKGBUILDs when and as needed since the returns and a missing package function do not invalidate a package. What the package function is really useful for is --repackage. Previously a makepkg -R would only take the contents of the pkg directory and package it, so I did not know this myself until a chance encounter (and Ionut/wonder/ioni told me it actually made use of the function already). -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD
Am Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:30:35 +0200 schrieb Jakob Gruber <jakob.gruber@kabelnet.at>:
me-tv
Are you really sure that you want to bring THIS package to [community]? I was a former AUR maintainer of this package and orphaned it because it was absolutely impossible to work together with upstream. There have been a lot of bugs - I don't know them exactly anymore - but they made at least a reasonable usage impossible. That's why I, of course, filed a bug report to upstream. And you really don't want to know the following e-mail conversation I had with Michael Lamothe the upstream developer. Well, a part of it took place in the AUR comments. He was really more than impolite, felt hassled by bug reports and feature requests, didn't care about bug reports and feature requests, and only programs for his own purposes. It's a very, very short and polite summary of his own words. Briefly speaking it was no fun or rather impossible maintaining this package and working together with upstream, and me-tv was too buggy. I doubt that all of these bugs are fixed. I'm not sure if you really want to or should bring those problems to the binary repos. But I'm really wondering how Vinzenz and you have been resp. are able to maintaining this package, and how this package could become so many votes. Well, me-tv is principally not bad as long as it works and as long as it has no bugs by chance, or you're not missing a feature. Heiko
On Wednesday 25 August 2010 15:09:09 Heiko Baums wrote:
Am Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:30:35 +0200
schrieb Jakob Gruber <jakob.gruber@kabelnet.at>:
me-tv
Are you really sure that you want to bring THIS package to [community]?
I was a former AUR maintainer of this package and orphaned it because it was absolutely impossible to work together with upstream.
There have been a lot of bugs - I don't know them exactly anymore - but they made at least a reasonable usage impossible. That's why I, of course, filed a bug report to upstream.
And you really don't want to know the following e-mail conversation I had with Michael Lamothe the upstream developer. Well, a part of it took place in the AUR comments. He was really more than impolite, felt hassled by bug reports and feature requests, didn't care about bug reports and feature requests, and only programs for his own purposes. It's a very, very short and polite summary of his own words.
Briefly speaking it was no fun or rather impossible maintaining this package and working together with upstream, and me-tv was too buggy.
I doubt that all of these bugs are fixed.
I'm not sure if you really want to or should bring those problems to the binary repos.
But I'm really wondering how Vinzenz and you have been resp. are able to maintaining this package, and how this package could become so many votes.
Well, me-tv is principally not bad as long as it works and as long as it has no bugs by chance, or you're not missing a feature.
Heiko
First of all, thanks Laurent for sponsoring me, I appreciate it. About me-tv: I don't have any strong feelings either way, but it seems like a popular, actively developed application. I did see some conflicts with upstream in AUR comments about a year ago (?), but my experiences so far have been pretty good. Both recent bug reports related to Arch were fixed within reasonable time: https://bugs.launchpad.net/me-tv/+bug/584704 https://bugs.launchpad.net/me-tv/+bug/560615 PKGBUILD updates have been simple version bumps + md5sum updates only.
Excerpts from Jakob Gruber's message of 2010-08-25 13:30:35 +0200:
Hi,
I'd like to apply for the TU position, and as I don't have a sponsor yet it'd be great if somebody would be kind enough to take me on :)
A little bit about myself: I'm 26 and I live close to Vienna, Austria. The past couple of years I've worked as a database developer / consultant, then as a C# programmer (with a couple of additional tasks like building and maintaining our SVN / Trac server). In my free time, I've also been playing around with C++ and Python.
I've been using Arch for around 2 years. I haven't had much linux experience before that - if I remember correctly it was around 1-2 months of Ubuntu and Gentoo. I regularly lurk on the forums and maintain a few packages in AUR ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=schuay ).
Generally, I'm mostly interested in maintaining games. However I'm more than willing to help out where it is needed. Out of my AUR packages, I'd consider taking
firehol, me-tv and stone-soup
to community.
I have a decent pc (3ghz dual core, 6G ram) available to build for both i686 and x86_64.
schuay
How about boost-build? It has 93 votes. But luabind is the first thing I encountered that needs it. -- Philipp -- "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
On Wednesday 25 August 2010 17:26:18 Philipp Überbacher wrote:
How about boost-build? It has 93 votes. But luabind is the first thing I encountered that needs it.
I've only adopted boost-build and luabind very recently as they're dependencies of allacrost and were both orphaned. I'm not familiar with the packages yet and I don't know why they have so many votes when it seems like (almost) nothing depends on them.
Excerpts from Jakob Gruber's message of 2010-08-26 16:35:40 +0200:
On Wednesday 25 August 2010 17:26:18 Philipp Überbacher wrote:
How about boost-build? It has 93 votes. But luabind is the first thing I encountered that needs it.
I've only adopted boost-build and luabind very recently as they're dependencies of allacrost and were both orphaned. I'm not familiar with the packages yet and I don't know why they have so many votes when it seems like (almost) nothing depends on them.
Ok, all clear. Allacrost looks like a promising game :) Here's what namcap told me: allacrost W: Dependency included but already satisfied ('libgl') allacrost W: Dependency included and not needed ('sdl_net') -- Philipp -- "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
participants (5)
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Heiko Baums
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Jakob Gruber
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Laurent Carlier
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Philipp Überbacher
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Ray Rashif