[aur-general] TU Application - Massimiliano Torromeo
Hi, Sven-Hendrik Haase is sponsoring my application as a trusted user. I thought about applying as a TU for some time now, I think the selection of packages provided by Arch is already great but there is always space for additional quality software in community and I hope to help with that. Here's a little background about myself: I'm a 28yr old italian guy, working as a system administrator and developer at a company that provides web-services, hosting and housing solutions. I first tried linux out of curiosity back when Mandriva was still called Mandrake, but I didn't like it at all and the RPM system made me cry tears of blood. I didn't linux again for a couple of years and then I tried gentoo. I was at my last year of high school and, being already a developer at heart, I wasn't scared but rather really interested by its packaging system that required extensive time of compilation but providing extreme customization possibilities at the same time. That was the time when I finally dropped Windows for good and I kept using gentoo for years as my primary os, while only checking out other distros every once in a while. In all this years I tried many other distributions both out of personal curiosity and for work: Suse, Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, [K]Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Slackware, Oracle Linux and of course Arch! plus some BSDs (FreeBSD and Mac OSX), but I still like Arch the best. Like I said, I am a developer at heart and I released some applications [1] as opensource, first as GPL but I then became more of a BSD/MIT guy. The most successful of them all has been a grafical frontend for embedded devices such as gaming handhelds which I developed (using SDL/C++) initially for the GP2X [2] but was later ported to many other devices by other developers/communities, called GMenu2X [3]. I am a confident developer who loves the Python language, but I also user very often PHP, C++, Bash (for scripts of course) and other languages. My work as a system administrator involves installing and configuring machines (Arch based whenever possible) with a variety of server softwares, and that's where I will probably focus as a TU. I already maintain a private repository of packages that help me keep the aforementioned machines up-to-date.
From this packages I selected an initial list of what I plan to move to community:
- percona-server - mariadb (refactored to replace mysql, unlike the one in AUR. See [4]) - nagios-nrpe - nagios-plugins - nmon - ttf-ubuntu-font-family - rt3562sta - arp-scan - e4rat - mtop - php-mongo - pngcrush - supervisor - vdfuse - vbox-runner You can see on the AUR [5] and on github [6] that I have written already a pretty long list of PKGBUILDs including the popular dropbox. If you have any question, just ask. Thanks! [1] https://github.com/mtorromeo/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X [3] http://mtorromeo.github.com/gmenu2x/ [4] https://github.com/mtorromeo/archlinux-packages/tree/master/mariadb-mysql-re... [5] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=mtorromeo [6] https://github.com/mtorromeo/archlinux-packages
On 10/3/11, Massimiliano Torromeo <massimiliano.torromeo@gmail.com> wrote:
From this packages I selected an initial list of what I plan to move to community:
- percona-server - mariadb (refactored to replace mysql, unlike the one in AUR. See [4])
One question: are you comfortable being the lightning rod for a MySQL migration? Okay, two questions. What is your favorite color? -Kyle http://kmkeen.com
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:10 PM, keenerd <keenerd@gmail.com> wrote:
One question: are you comfortable being the lightning rod for a MySQL migration?
Not entirely. I have those packages already deployed on some servers and I am confident that they work as expected in that kind of workload but there are really a lot of applications that I did not test (and can't possibly test them all by myself). But that is what community-testing is for, right?
Okay, two questions. What is your favorite color?
Arch blue, of course ;)
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:10 AM, keenerd <keenerd@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/3/11, Massimiliano Torromeo <massimiliano.torromeo@gmail.com> wrote:
From this packages I selected an initial list of what I plan to move to community:
- percona-server - mariadb (refactored to replace mysql, unlike the one in AUR. See [4])
One question: are you comfortable being the lightning rod for a MySQL migration?
Okay, two questions. What is your favorite color?
-Kyle http://kmkeen.com
Are we getting rid of MySQL? Or just making Maria a "replaces" package?
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Thomas S Hatch <thatch45@gmail.com> wrote:
Are we getting rid of MySQL? Or just making Maria a "replaces" package?
Getting rid of MySQL would be crazy! Of course, I'm going to use the replaces/provides flags, for both mariadb and percona.
On 10/03/2011 07:27 PM, Massimiliano Torromeo wrote:
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Thomas S Hatch<thatch45@gmail.com> wrote:
Are we getting rid of MySQL? Or just making Maria a "replaces" package?
Getting rid of MySQL would be crazy! Of course, I'm going to use the replaces/provides flags, for both mariadb and percona.
replaces is going to be a big mistake! maybe conflicts/provides -- Ionuț
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Massimiliano Torromeo < massimiliano.torromeo@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Thomas S Hatch <thatch45@gmail.com> wrote:
Are we getting rid of MySQL? Or just making Maria a "replaces" package?
Getting rid of MySQL would be crazy! Of course, I'm going to use the replaces/provides flags, for both mariadb and percona.
Ok, just making sure, thanks!
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Thomas S Hatch <thatch45@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Massimiliano Torromeo < massimiliano.torromeo@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Thomas S Hatch <thatch45@gmail.com> wrote:
Are we getting rid of MySQL? Or just making Maria a "replaces" package?
Getting rid of MySQL would be crazy! Of course, I'm going to use the replaces/provides flags, for both mariadb and percona.
Ok, just making sure, thanks!
I hope I did not derail this too much, your packages look good, and your github account is very impressive! It looks like you have the motivation and the competency to help maintain and uphold the Arch way .
On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 06:27:29PM +0200, Massimiliano Torromeo wrote:
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Thomas S Hatch <thatch45@gmail.com> wrote:
Are we getting rid of MySQL? Or just making Maria a "replaces" package?
Getting rid of MySQL would be crazy! Of course, I'm going to use the replaces/provides flags, for both mariadb and percona.
Please don't do this. provides and conflicts, yes, but there's no reason this should be forced as an upgrade path for mysql users. Using replaces here is just as good as killing it off entirely. Users still have a choice -- don't take it away from them. dave
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Dave Reisner <d@falconindy.com> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 06:27:29PM +0200, Massimiliano Torromeo wrote:
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Thomas S Hatch <thatch45@gmail.com> wrote:
Are we getting rid of MySQL? Or just making Maria a "replaces" package?
Getting rid of MySQL would be crazy! Of course, I'm going to use the replaces/provides flags, for both mariadb and percona.
Please don't do this. provides and conflicts, yes, but there's no reason this should be forced as an upgrade path for mysql users. Using replaces here is just as good as killing it off entirely. Users still have a choice -- don't take it away from them.
dave
Sorry, I got confused, my mistake. Only provides, of course!
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Dave Reisner <d@falconindy.com> wrote:
Please don't do this. provides and conflicts, yes, but there's no reason this should be forced as an upgrade path for mysql users. Using replaces here is just as good as killing it off entirely. Users still have a choice -- don't take it away from them.
Replaces would cause problems, since it will try to force the package over the standard mysql. But provides+conflicts will still allow the final user to choose which one to install. Just take a look at the percona-server package [1], I have it in my own repository and I still install mysql on some servers and percona on others, no problems at all. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pe/percona-server/PKGBUILD
On 03.10.2011 18:32, Massimiliano Torromeo wrote:
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Dave Reisner <d@falconindy.com> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 06:27:29PM +0200, Massimiliano Torromeo wrote:
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Thomas S Hatch <thatch45@gmail.com> wrote:
Are we getting rid of MySQL? Or just making Maria a "replaces" package? Getting rid of MySQL would be crazy! Of course, I'm going to use the replaces/provides flags, for both mariadb and percona. Please don't do this. provides and conflicts, yes, but there's no reason this should be forced as an upgrade path for mysql users. Using replaces here is just as good as killing it off entirely. Users still have a choice -- don't take it away from them.
dave Sorry, I got confused, my mistake. Only provides, of course! No, make it provides and conflicts. That is the way we handle alternative but conflicting choices of packages.
Am 03.10.2011 18:39, schrieb Sven-Hendrik Haase:
On 03.10.2011 18:32, Massimiliano Torromeo wrote:
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Dave Reisner<d@falconindy.com> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 06:27:29PM +0200, Massimiliano Torromeo wrote:
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Thomas S Hatch<thatch45@gmail.com> wrote:
Are we getting rid of MySQL? Or just making Maria a "replaces" package? Getting rid of MySQL would be crazy! Of course, I'm going to use the replaces/provides flags, for both mariadb and percona. Please don't do this. provides and conflicts, yes, but there's no reason this should be forced as an upgrade path for mysql users. Using replaces here is just as good as killing it off entirely. Users still have a choice -- don't take it away from them.
dave Sorry, I got confused, my mistake. Only provides, of course! No, make it provides and conflicts. That is the way we handle alternative but conflicting choices of packages.
Wow what an outcry! I think he got it! Massimiliano, I saw you have some ruby packages in your github repo, but you did not mention ruby as a language you have skills in. I think we lack someone with that skill. Sven-Hendrik, do you sponsor Massimiliano? And do you mind to let the discussion period begin? (Yes, I am a nitpicker) I maintain pngcrush in AUR and thought myself to bring it to [community]. The main reason for not doing so was that we have optipng there, which does entirely the same as pngcrush. Regards Stefan
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Thomas S Hatch <thatch45@gmail.com> wrote:
I hope I did not derail this too much, your packages look good, and your github account is very impressive! It looks like you have the motivation and the competency to help maintain and uphold the Arch way .
Thanks! On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Stefan Husmann <stefan-husmann@t-online.de> wrote:
Massimiliano, I saw you have some ruby packages in your github repo, but you did not mention ruby as a language you have skills in. I think we lack someone with that skill.
My experience with ruby so far has been more from the side of a sysadmin. As a developer I have basic knowledge of the language to understand what's going on, and even to patch code when there is need for it. I would dare to say that I have basic knowledge of most of the more popular languages, except for functional programming which I really can't get myself to like at all.
I maintain pngcrush in AUR and thought myself to bring it to [community]. The main reason for not doing so was that we have optipng there, which does entirely the same as pngcrush.
I didn't know about optipng, I will check into it, and since there is already a TU behind pngcrush I will probably leave it out of the list then.
Excerpts from Massimiliano Torromeo's message of 2011-10-03 19:20:41 +0200:
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Thomas S Hatch <thatch45@gmail.com> wrote:
I hope I did not derail this too much, your packages look good, and your github account is very impressive! It looks like you have the motivation and the competency to help maintain and uphold the Arch way .
Thanks!
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Stefan Husmann <stefan-husmann@t-online.de> wrote:
Massimiliano, I saw you have some ruby packages in your github repo, but you did not mention ruby as a language you have skills in. I think we lack someone with that skill.
My experience with ruby so far has been more from the side of a sysadmin. As a developer I have basic knowledge of the language to understand what's going on, and even to patch code when there is need for it. I would dare to say that I have basic knowledge of most of the more popular languages, except for functional programming which I really can't get myself to like at all.
Ah, ruby. I'd really like to see sup or its successor (once ready) in a binary repo :)
Am 03.10.2011 19:20, schrieb Massimiliano Torromeo:
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Thomas S Hatch<thatch45@gmail.com> wrote:
I hope I did not derail this too much, your packages look good, and your github account is very impressive! It looks like you have the motivation and the competency to help maintain and uphold the Arch way .
Thanks!
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Stefan Husmann <stefan-husmann@t-online.de> wrote:
Massimiliano, I saw you have some ruby packages in your github repo, but you did not mention ruby as a language you have skills in. I think we lack someone with that skill.
My experience with ruby so far has been more from the side of a sysadmin. As a developer I have basic knowledge of the language to understand what's going on, and even to patch code when there is need for it. I would dare to say that I have basic knowledge of most of the more popular languages, except for functional programming which I really can't get myself to like at all.
That's more than I can tell from me.
I maintain pngcrush in AUR and thought myself to bring it to [community]. The main reason for not doing so was that we have optipng there, which does entirely the same as pngcrush.
I didn't know about optipng, I will check into it, and since there is already a TU behind pngcrush I will probably leave it out of the list then.
If you become a TU feel free to decide differently than I did. My remark was merely meant as a question to the other TUs what to do in such a case. Regards Stefan
On 04.10.2011 18:51, Stefan Husmann wrote:
Am 03.10.2011 19:20, schrieb Massimiliano Torromeo:
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Thomas S Hatch<thatch45@gmail.com> wrote:
I hope I did not derail this too much, your packages look good, and your github account is very impressive! It looks like you have the motivation and the competency to help maintain and uphold the Arch way .
Thanks!
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Stefan Husmann <stefan-husmann@t-online.de> wrote:
Massimiliano, I saw you have some ruby packages in your github repo, but you did not mention ruby as a language you have skills in. I think we lack someone with that skill.
My experience with ruby so far has been more from the side of a sysadmin. As a developer I have basic knowledge of the language to understand what's going on, and even to patch code when there is need for it. I would dare to say that I have basic knowledge of most of the more popular languages, except for functional programming which I really can't get myself to like at all.
That's more than I can tell from me.
I maintain pngcrush in AUR and thought myself to bring it to [community]. The main reason for not doing so was that we have optipng there, which does entirely the same as pngcrush.
I didn't know about optipng, I will check into it, and since there is already a TU behind pngcrush I will probably leave it out of the list then.
If you become a TU feel free to decide differently than I did. My remark was merely meant as a question to the other TUs what to do in such a case.
Regards Stefan
I don't see anything wrong with having officially maintained alternatives unless one of them is vastly superior to the other or even an official successor.
2011/10/3 Stefan Husmann <stefan-husmann@t-online.de>:
Am 03.10.2011 18:39, schrieb Sven-Hendrik Haase:
On 03.10.2011 18:32, Massimiliano Torromeo wrote:
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Dave Reisner<d@falconindy.com> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 06:27:29PM +0200, Massimiliano Torromeo wrote:
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Thomas S Hatch<thatch45@gmail.com> wrote:
Are we getting rid of MySQL? Or just making Maria a "replaces" package?
Getting rid of MySQL would be crazy! Of course, I'm going to use the replaces/provides flags, for both mariadb and percona.
Please don't do this. provides and conflicts, yes, but there's no reason this should be forced as an upgrade path for mysql users. Using replaces here is just as good as killing it off entirely. Users still have a choice -- don't take it away from them.
dave
Sorry, I got confused, my mistake. Only provides, of course!
No, make it provides and conflicts. That is the way we handle alternative but conflicting choices of packages.
Wow what an outcry! I think he got it!
Massimiliano, I saw you have some ruby packages in your github repo, but you did not mention ruby as a language you have skills in. I think we lack someone with that skill.
Sven-Hendrik, do you sponsor Massimiliano? And do you mind to let the discussion period begin? (Yes, I am a nitpicker)
I thought he forgot about saying the magical words "let the period discussion begin?" oh come on we are already discussing it? right? Massimiliano i don't personally trust you, but i did a quick research before indirectly suggest to Sven to sponsor you, i'm glad you applied and I hope good luck on this process. Cheers -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Developer / Trusted User Linux Counter: #359909 http://www.angvp.com
2011/10/3 Ángel Velásquez <angvp@archlinux.org>:
Massimiliano i don't personally trust you, but i did a quick research before indirectly suggest to Sven to sponsor you, i'm glad you applied and I hope good luck on this process.
Lol i've failed again, i wanted to say "i don't personally know you, but i trust in your knowledge" hahaha .. #fail Sorry, good luck! -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Developer / Trusted User Linux Counter: #359909 http://www.angvp.com
2011/10/3 Ángel Velásquez <angvp@archlinux.org>:
2011/10/3 Ángel Velásquez <angvp@archlinux.org>:
Massimiliano i don't personally trust you, but i did a quick research before indirectly suggest to Sven to sponsor you, i'm glad you applied and I hope good luck on this process.
Lol i've failed again, i wanted to say "i don't personally know you, but i trust in your knowledge"
hahaha .. #fail
Sorry, good luck!
Ahah, it indeed sounds better now :) Thanks.
Am Mon, 3 Oct 2011 12:30:10 -0400 schrieb Dave Reisner <d@falconindy.com>:
Please don't do this. provides and conflicts, yes, ...
Do they really conflict or is mariadb just an alternative replacement for mysql? Means, can they both be installed parallel or just only one of them at a time? Heiko
On 03.10.2011 17:56, Massimiliano Torromeo wrote:
Hi,
Sven-Hendrik Haase is sponsoring my application as a trusted user.
I thought about applying as a TU for some time now, I think the selection of packages provided by Arch is already great but there is always space for additional quality software in community and I hope to help with that.
Here's a little background about myself: I'm a 28yr old italian guy, working as a system administrator and developer at a company that provides web-services, hosting and housing solutions.
I first tried linux out of curiosity back when Mandriva was still called Mandrake, but I didn't like it at all and the RPM system made me cry tears of blood. I didn't linux again for a couple of years and then I tried gentoo. I was at my last year of high school and, being already a developer at heart, I wasn't scared but rather really interested by its packaging system that required extensive time of compilation but providing extreme customization possibilities at the same time. That was the time when I finally dropped Windows for good and I kept using gentoo for years as my primary os, while only checking out other distros every once in a while. In all this years I tried many other distributions both out of personal curiosity and for work: Suse, Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, [K]Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Slackware, Oracle Linux and of course Arch! plus some BSDs (FreeBSD and Mac OSX), but I still like Arch the best.
Like I said, I am a developer at heart and I released some applications [1] as opensource, first as GPL but I then became more of a BSD/MIT guy. The most successful of them all has been a grafical frontend for embedded devices such as gaming handhelds which I developed (using SDL/C++) initially for the GP2X [2] but was later ported to many other devices by other developers/communities, called GMenu2X [3].
I am a confident developer who loves the Python language, but I also user very often PHP, C++, Bash (for scripts of course) and other languages. My work as a system administrator involves installing and configuring machines (Arch based whenever possible) with a variety of server softwares, and that's where I will probably focus as a TU. I already maintain a private repository of packages that help me keep the aforementioned machines up-to-date.
From this packages I selected an initial list of what I plan to move to community:
- percona-server - mariadb (refactored to replace mysql, unlike the one in AUR. See [4]) - nagios-nrpe - nagios-plugins - nmon - ttf-ubuntu-font-family - rt3562sta - arp-scan - e4rat - mtop - php-mongo - pngcrush - supervisor - vdfuse - vbox-runner
You can see on the AUR [5] and on github [6] that I have written already a pretty long list of PKGBUILDs including the popular dropbox.
If you have any question, just ask.
Thanks!
[1] https://github.com/mtorromeo/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X [3] http://mtorromeo.github.com/gmenu2x/ [4] https://github.com/mtorromeo/archlinux-packages/tree/master/mariadb-mysql-re... [5] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=mtorromeo [6] https://github.com/mtorromeo/archlinux-packages Who is this person? I don't know him.
jk, I think he's an alright right guy with lots of experience in servery things. Let the discussion begin.
On 3 October 2011 23:56, Massimiliano Torromeo <massimiliano.torromeo@gmail.com> wrote:
- ttf-ubuntu-font-family - e4rat - vdfuse - vbox-runner
Looking forward to those :) Good luck! -- GPG/PGP ID: 8AADBB10
Massimiliano Torromeo <massimiliano.torromeo@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, Sven-Hendrik Haase is sponsoring my application as a trusted user. I thought about applying as a TU for some time now, I think the selection of packages provided by Arch is already great but there is always space for additional quality software in community and I hope to help with that. Here's a little background about myself: I'm a 28yr old italian guy, working as a system administrator and developer at a company that provides web-services, hosting and housing solutions. I first tried linux out of curiosity back when Mandriva was still called Mandrake, but I didn't like it at all and the RPM system made me cry tears of blood. I didn't linux again for a couple of years and then I tried gentoo. I was at my last year of high school and, being already a developer at heart, I wasn't scared but rather really interested by its packaging system that required extensive time of compilation but providing extreme customization possibilities at the same time. That was the time when I finally dropped Windows for good and I kept using gentoo for years as my primary os, while only checking out other distros every once in a while. In all this years I tried many other distributions both out of personal curiosity and for work: Suse, Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, [K]Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Slackware, Oracle Linux and of course Arch! plus some BSDs (FreeBSD and Mac OSX), but I still like Arch the best. Like I said, I am a developer at heart and I released some applications [1] as opensource, first as GPL but I then became more of a BSD/MIT guy. The most successful of them all has been a grafical frontend for embedded devices such as gaming handhelds which I developed (using SDL/C++) initially for the GP2X [2] but was later ported to many other devices by other developers/communities, called GMenu2X [3]. I am a confident developer who loves the Python language, but I also user very often PHP, C++, Bash (for scripts of course) and other languages. My work as a system administrator involves installing and configuring machines (Arch based whenever possible) with a variety of server softwares, and that's where I will probably focus as a TU. I already maintain a private repository of packages that help me keep the aforementioned machines up-to-date.
From this packages I selected an initial list of what I plan to move to community:
- percona-server - mariadb (refactored to replace mysql, unlike the one in AUR. See [4]) - nagios-nrpe - nagios-plugins - nmon - ttf-ubuntu-font-family - rt3562sta - arp-scan - e4rat - mtop - php-mongo - pngcrush - supervisor - vdfuse - vbox-runner You can see on the AUR [5] and on github [6] that I have written already a pretty long list of PKGBUILDs including the popular dropbox. If you have any question, just ask. Thanks! [1] https://github.com/mtorromeo/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X [3] http://mtorromeo.github.com/gmenu2x/ [4] https://github.com/mtorromeo/archlinux-packages/tree/master/mariadb-mysql-re... [5] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=mtorromeo [6] https://github.com/mtorromeo/archlinux-packages 5 full days have passed the land. The vote to decide Massimiliano's fate is at hand. What will we decide? Judgement will be applied. Please vote, I hope you'll understand. https://aur.archlinux.org/tu.php?id=51 -- Sven-Hendrik
On 10/08/2011 05:55 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
5 full days have passed the land. The vote to decide Massimiliano's fate is at hand. What will we decide? Judgement will be applied. Please vote, I hope you'll understand.
https://aur.archlinux.org/tu.php?id=51
-- Sven-Hendrik
Gah, K-9 Mail failed me once again at quoting.
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh@lutzhaase.com>wrote:
Massimiliano Torromeo <massimiliano.torromeo@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Sven-Hendrik Haase is sponsoring my application as a trusted user.
I thought about applying as a TU for some time now, I think the selection of packages provided by Arch is already great but there is always space for additional quality software in community and I hope to help with that.
Here's a little background about myself: I'm a 28yr old italian guy, working as a system administrator and developer at a company that provides web-services, hosting and housing solutions.
I first tried linux out of curiosity back when Mandriva was still called Mandrake, but I didn't like it at all and the RPM system made me cry tears of blood. I didn't linux again for a couple of years and then I tried gentoo. I was at my last year of high school and, being already a developer at heart, I wasn't scared but rather really interested by its packaging system that required extensive time of compilation but providing extreme customization possibilities at the same time. That was the time when I finally dropped Windows for good and I kept using gentoo for years as my primary os, while only checking out other distros every once in a while. In all this years I tried many other distributions both out of personal curiosity and for work: Suse, Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, [K]Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Slackware, Oracle Linux and of course Arch! plus some BSDs (FreeBSD and Mac OSX), but I still like Arch the best.
Like I said, I am a developer at heart and I released some applications [1] as opensource, first as GPL but I then became more of a BSD/MIT guy. The most successful of them all has been a grafical frontend for embedded devices such as gaming handhelds which I developed (using SDL/C++) initially for the GP2X [2] but was later ported to many other devices by other developers/communities, called GMenu2X [3].
I am a confident developer who loves the Python language, but I also user very often PHP, C++, Bash (for scripts of course) and other languages. My work as a system administrator involves installing and configuring machines (Arch based whenever possible) with a variety of server softwares, and that's where I will probably focus as a TU. I already maintain a private repository of packages that help me keep the aforementioned machines up-to-date.
From this packages I selected an initial list of what I plan to move to community:
- percona-server - mariadb (refactored to replace mysql, unlike the one in AUR. See [4]) - nagios-nrpe - nagios-plugins - nmon - ttf-ubuntu-font-family - rt3562sta - arp-scan - e4rat - mtop - php-mongo - pngcrush - supervisor - vdfuse - vbox-runner
You can see on the AUR [5] and on github [6] that I have written already a pretty long list of PKGBUILDs including the popular dropbox.
If you have any question, just ask.
Thanks!
[1] https://github.com/mtorromeo/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X [3] http://mtorromeo.github.com/gmenu2x/ [4] https://github.com/mtorromeo/archlinux-packages/tree/master/mariadb-mysql-re... [5] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=mtorromeo [6] https://github.com/mtorromeo/archlinux-packages
5 full days have passed the land. The vote to decide Massimiliano's fate is at hand. What will we decide? Judgement will be applied. Please vote, I hope you'll understand.
https://aur.archlinux.org/tu.php?id=51
-- Sven-Hendrik
Just want to drop a thank to Massimiliano Torromeo for his PKGBUILD of dropbox and other useful packages. I hope he will be accepted soon. Trung
On 08.10.2011 17:55, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
Massimiliano Torromeo <massimiliano.torromeo@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Sven-Hendrik Haase is sponsoring my application as a trusted user.
I thought about applying as a TU for some time now, I think the selection of packages provided by Arch is already great but there is always space for additional quality software in community and I hope to help with that.
Here's a little background about myself: I'm a 28yr old italian guy, working as a system administrator and developer at a company that provides web-services, hosting and housing solutions.
I first tried linux out of curiosity back when Mandriva was still called Mandrake, but I didn't like it at all and the RPM system made me cry tears of blood. I didn't linux again for a couple of years and then I tried gentoo. I was at my last year of high school and, being already a developer at heart, I wasn't scared but rather really interested by its packaging system that required extensive time of compilation but providing extreme customization possibilities at the same time. That was the time when I finally dropped Windows for good and I kept using gentoo for years as my primary os, while only checking out other distros every once in a while. In all this years I tried many other distributions both out of personal curiosity and for work: Suse, Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, [K]Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Slackware, Oracle Linux and of course Arch! plus some BSDs (FreeBSD and Mac OSX), but I still like Arch the best.
Like I said, I am a developer at heart and I released some applications [1] as opensource, first as GPL but I then became more of a BSD/MIT guy. The most successful of them all has been a grafical frontend for embedded devices such as gaming handhelds which I developed (using SDL/C++) initially for the GP2X [2] but was later ported to many other devices by other developers/communities, called GMenu2X [3].
I am a confident developer who loves the Python language, but I also user very often PHP, C++, Bash (for scripts of course) and other languages. My work as a system administrator involves installing and configuring machines (Arch based whenever possible) with a variety of server softwares, and that's where I will probably focus as a TU. I already maintain a private repository of packages that help me keep the aforementioned machines up-to-date.
From this packages I selected an initial list of what I plan to move to community:
- percona-server - mariadb (refactored to replace mysql, unlike the one in AUR. See [4]) - nagios-nrpe - nagios-plugins - nmon - ttf-ubuntu-font-family - rt3562sta - arp-scan - e4rat - mtop - php-mongo - pngcrush - supervisor - vdfuse - vbox-runner
You can see on the AUR [5] and on github [6] that I have written already a pretty long list of PKGBUILDs including the popular dropbox.
If you have any question, just ask.
Thanks!
[1] https://github.com/mtorromeo/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X [3] http://mtorromeo.github.com/gmenu2x/ [4] https://github.com/mtorromeo/archlinux-packages/tree/master/mariadb-mysql-re... [5] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=mtorromeo <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=mtorromeo> [6] https://github.com/mtorromeo/archlinux-packages
5 full days have passed the land. The vote to decide Massimiliano's fate is at hand. What will we decide? Judgement will be applied. Please vote, I hope you'll understand.
https://aur.archlinux.org/tu.php?id=51
-- Sven-Hendrik
This was a huge success! 17 votes for yay~ and none for nope. Welcome to the team. Do the todo list [1]. Your account has been supersized. Congratulations! [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines#TODO_list_f...
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh@lutzhaase.com> wrote:
On 08.10.2011 17:55, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
Massimiliano Torromeo <massimiliano.torromeo@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Sven-Hendrik Haase is sponsoring my application as a trusted user.
I thought about applying as a TU for some time now, I think the selection of packages provided by Arch is already great but there is always space for additional quality software in community and I hope to help with that.
Here's a little background about myself: I'm a 28yr old italian guy, working as a system administrator and developer at a company that provides web-services, hosting and housing solutions.
I first tried linux out of curiosity back when Mandriva was still called Mandrake, but I didn't like it at all and the RPM system made me cry tears of blood. I didn't linux again for a couple of years and then I tried gentoo. I was at my last year of high school and, being already a developer at heart, I wasn't scared but rather really interested by its packaging system that required extensive time of compilation but providing extreme customization possibilities at the same time. That was the time when I finally dropped Windows for good and I kept using gentoo for years as my primary os, while only checking out other distros every once in a while. In all this years I tried many other distributions both out of personal curiosity and for work: Suse, Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, [K]Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Slackware, Oracle Linux and of course Arch! plus some BSDs (FreeBSD and Mac OSX), but I still like Arch the best.
Like I said, I am a developer at heart and I released some applications [1] as opensource, first as GPL but I then became more of a BSD/MIT guy. The most successful of them all has been a grafical frontend for embedded devices such as gaming handhelds which I developed (using SDL/C++) initially for the GP2X [2] but was later ported to many other devices by other developers/communities, called GMenu2X [3].
I am a confident developer who loves the Python language, but I also user very often PHP, C++, Bash (for scripts of course) and other languages. My work as a system administrator involves installing and configuring machines (Arch based whenever possible) with a variety of server softwares, and that's where I will probably focus as a TU. I already maintain a private repository of packages that help me keep the aforementioned machines up-to-date.
From this packages I selected an initial list of what I plan to move to community:
- percona-server - mariadb (refactored to replace mysql, unlike the one in AUR. See [4]) - nagios-nrpe - nagios-plugins - nmon - ttf-ubuntu-font-family - rt3562sta - arp-scan - e4rat - mtop - php-mongo - pngcrush - supervisor - vdfuse - vbox-runner
You can see on the AUR [5] and on github [6] that I have written already a pretty long list of PKGBUILDs including the popular dropbox.
If you have any question, just ask.
Thanks!
[1] https://github.com/mtorromeo/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X [3] http://mtorromeo.github.com/gmenu2x/ [4] https://github.com/mtorromeo/archlinux-packages/tree/master/mariadb-mysql-re... [5] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=mtorromeo <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=mtorromeo> [6] https://github.com/mtorromeo/archlinux-packages
5 full days have passed the land. The vote to decide Massimiliano's fate is at hand. What will we decide? Judgement will be applied. Please vote, I hope you'll understand.
https://aur.archlinux.org/tu.php?id=51
-- Sven-Hendrik
This was a huge success! 17 votes for yay~ and none for nope.
Welcome to the team. Do the todo list [1]. Your account has been supersized.
Congratulations!
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines#TODO_list_f...
Nice! I was about to leave for the night but I want to thank everybody for the trust. I'm very happy to be a part of this great team! I'll take all the necessary steps of the TODO list tomorrow. Have a good night!
Congratulations Massimiliano! :)
On Saturday 15 October 2011 20:47:04 Massimiliano Torromeo wrote:
I'm very happy to be a part of this great team!
I'll take all the necessary steps of the TODO list tomorrow. Your BBS and flyspray accounts have been updated yesterday.
Welcome aboard! Nice to see another Italian around :) -- Andrea
2011/10/15 Massimiliano Torromeo <massimiliano.torromeo@gmail.com>:
Nice! I was about to leave for the night but I want to thank everybody for the trust.
I'm very happy to be a part of this great team!
I'll take all the necessary steps of the TODO list tomorrow.
Have a good night!
Congratulazioni :) Welcome aboard. -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Developer / Trusted User Linux Counter: #359909 http://www.angvp.com
participants (14)
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Andrea Scarpino
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Corvolino winS
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Dave Reisner
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Heiko Baums
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Ionut Biru
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keenerd
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Massimiliano Torromeo
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Pham Bao Trung
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Philipp Überbacher
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Ray Rashif
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Stefan Husmann
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Sven-Hendrik Haase
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Thomas S Hatch
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Ángel Velásquez