[aur-general] TU Application
Hi all, My name is Maxime Gauduin, I'm 23 and I live in France where I work as a chemical engineer. I've been using Arch Linux for almost 2 years now, and have been thinking about applying for a TU position for a while. Recently I was contacted by Svenstaro, asking if I minded him putting my higan package in [community]. That was the trigger, and Svenstaro kindly offered to be my sponsor. I have been into computers since the age of 10, when I had my first one, at the time it was running Win98. The first time I installed a Linux distro I was 18, and the distro was Ubuntu. Not long after, I decided to try other distros, I switched to LinuxMint, which I really liked, then LMDE. However I had always wanted the bleeding edge, because I was building all my emulators, and the video codecs for my encoding needs. That is when I stumbled upon Arch Linux, somebody was praising it on a Linux Youtube show, I thought I'd give it a try. The first install was a learning experience, took me about 4h no less. Today I can have Arch installed in a matter of minutes. I realize I may not be as skilled as most current TUs, as I do not know any language and am not a developper. However I know my way around bash very well. I really enjoy writing PKGBUILDs for apps I'm using, and poking around when something does not work. I have already sent patches upstream, for the aegisub project [1], for the Pantheon DE on launchpad, and more recently for makepkg. The patch was nothing out of the ordinary, I needed sed to follow symlinks because of the way I'm maintaining my PKGBUILDs [2]. I also have a little project of mine which has been well received by the community, on my Github account [3]. These are mkinitcpio hooks which will build virtualbox, host and guest, and nvidia modules using dkms when generating the initramfs. As I'm mainly using the ck kernel, they make updating a breeze. I've been involved with the aur-general mailing list since the beginning, and have recently subscribed to the arch-general and pacman-dev. As for the forums, I've got a mere 21 posts as I've been posting only when I had problems, or helping people which had the same problem at the time, which did not happen that often. I also have several contributions to the wiki, on the Virtualbox, Nvidia, Steam pages and others. The packages I'd like to bring to [community] are mainly the newly released higan emulator (which I have declined into higan-gtk and higan-qt on the AUR) and its associated patcher beat, firewalld and python2-slip from Fedora, the Faience themes and icon theme, ffmpegsource and my mkinitcpio hooks if they are eligible. Also after some talking with Svenstaro, it seems emulators on Arch need some love: we don't have, for example, a GB emulator (apart from higan, but which is not that great for this at the moment). I have just adopted dolphin-emu-git, I'm willing to bring the stable version, if it's okay with the current maintainer, and I just adopted the vba-m package (but still haven't updated it yet). I'm also thinking of bringing the Pantheon DE to arch, which is the official DE of the newly released elementaryOS Luna beta 1. Currently using Gnome-Shell, I fell in love with Pantheon. I've created a bunch of packages on the AUR to play around with it, but being based on Gnome 3.4 while arch has 3.6 introduces a lot of incompatibilities. Still, I'd really like to overcome these and bring it to Arch users. Well, I believe that's all I have to say. Thank you all in advance for considering my application. I hope to be able to learn more among all of you. [1] http://devel.aegisub.org/query?status=accepted&status=assigned&status=closed&status=infoneeded&status=infoneeded_new&status=new&status=reopened&reporter=Alucryd&order=priority [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/33575 [3] https://github.com/Alucryd/mkinitcpio-hooks -- Alucryd "In the name of God, impure souls of the living dead shall be banished into eternal damnation. Amen."
On 30.01.2013 21:09, Maxime Gauduin wrote:
Well, I believe that's all I have to say. Thank you all in advance for considering my application. I hope to be able to learn more among all of you.
You didn't sign your mail, but you attached your public key in a file called "signature.asc". Please either use a mail client that can properly send GPG/MIME signed mails or sign the text using "gpg -s --armor" and attach that. "gpg --clearsign" would be better, but I fear gmail might mangle the text so better go with the armored attachment. Let's wait for Sven's confirmation before any further discussion.
On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 22:23 +0100, Florian Pritz wrote:
On 30.01.2013 21:09, Maxime Gauduin wrote:
Well, I believe that's all I have to say. Thank you all in advance for considering my application. I hope to be able to learn more among all of you.
You didn't sign your mail, but you attached your public key in a file called "signature.asc".
Please either use a mail client that can properly send GPG/MIME signed mails or sign the text using "gpg -s --armor" and attach that. "gpg --clearsign" would be better, but I fear gmail might mangle the text so better go with the armored attachment.
Let's wait for Sven's confirmation before any further discussion.
Sorry about that. I've configured evolution to sign outgoing mails. It should be good now.
On 30.01.2013 23:00, Alucryd wrote:
Sorry about that. I've configured evolution to sign outgoing mails. It should be good now.
Please also push your key to the keyservers. "gpg --send-keys <your key id>" is enough.
On 30.01.2013 21:09, Maxime Gauduin wrote:
Hi all,
My name is Maxime Gauduin, I'm 23 and I live in France where I work as a chemical engineer. I've been using Arch Linux for almost 2 years now, and have been thinking about applying for a TU position for a while. Recently I was contacted by Svenstaro, asking if I minded him putting my higan package in [community]. That was the trigger, and Svenstaro kindly offered to be my sponsor.
I have been into computers since the age of 10, when I had my first one, at the time it was running Win98. The first time I installed a Linux distro I was 18, and the distro was Ubuntu. Not long after, I decided to try other distros, I switched to LinuxMint, which I really liked, then LMDE. However I had always wanted the bleeding edge, because I was building all my emulators, and the video codecs for my encoding needs. That is when I stumbled upon Arch Linux, somebody was praising it on a Linux Youtube show, I thought I'd give it a try. The first install was a learning experience, took me about 4h no less. Today I can have Arch installed in a matter of minutes.
I realize I may not be as skilled as most current TUs, as I do not know any language and am not a developper. However I know my way around bash very well. I really enjoy writing PKGBUILDs for apps I'm using, and poking around when something does not work. I have already sent patches upstream, for the aegisub project [1], for the Pantheon DE on launchpad, and more recently for makepkg. The patch was nothing out of the ordinary, I needed sed to follow symlinks because of the way I'm maintaining my PKGBUILDs [2].
I also have a little project of mine which has been well received by the community, on my Github account [3]. These are mkinitcpio hooks which will build virtualbox, host and guest, and nvidia modules using dkms when generating the initramfs. As I'm mainly using the ck kernel, they make updating a breeze.
I've been involved with the aur-general mailing list since the beginning, and have recently subscribed to the arch-general and pacman-dev. As for the forums, I've got a mere 21 posts as I've been posting only when I had problems, or helping people which had the same problem at the time, which did not happen that often. I also have several contributions to the wiki, on the Virtualbox, Nvidia, Steam pages and others.
The packages I'd like to bring to [community] are mainly the newly released higan emulator (which I have declined into higan-gtk and higan-qt on the AUR) and its associated patcher beat, firewalld and python2-slip from Fedora, the Faience themes and icon theme, ffmpegsource and my mkinitcpio hooks if they are eligible. Also after some talking with Svenstaro, it seems emulators on Arch need some love: we don't have, for example, a GB emulator (apart from higan, but which is not that great for this at the moment). I have just adopted dolphin-emu-git, I'm willing to bring the stable version, if it's okay with the current maintainer, and I just adopted the vba-m package (but still haven't updated it yet).
I'm also thinking of bringing the Pantheon DE to arch, which is the official DE of the newly released elementaryOS Luna beta 1. Currently using Gnome-Shell, I fell in love with Pantheon. I've created a bunch of packages on the AUR to play around with it, but being based on Gnome 3.4 while arch has 3.6 introduces a lot of incompatibilities. Still, I'd really like to overcome these and bring it to Arch users.
Well, I believe that's all I have to say. Thank you all in advance for considering my application. I hope to be able to learn more among all of you.
Confirming that I'm indeed sponsoring this dude. Let's discuss.
On 30.01.2013 23:07, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
Confirming that I'm indeed sponsoring this dude. Let's discuss.
Er I might wanna sign that.
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Maxime Gauduin <alucryd@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
My name is Maxime Gauduin, I'm 23 and I live in France where I work as a
So you're the guy behind VB's mkinitcpio hook? Thanks for making VB module compiling into the new kernel a breeze :) Regarding Pantheon DE, it would be great to see it running in Arch; for instance count with me to help you port it.. Cheers. -Martin
On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 23:32 -0300, Martín Cigorraga wrote:
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Maxime Gauduin <alucryd@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
My name is Maxime Gauduin, I'm 23 and I live in France where I work as a
So you're the guy behind VB's mkinitcpio hook? Thanks for making VB module compiling into the new kernel a breeze :) Regarding Pantheon DE, it would be great to see it running in Arch; for instance count with me to help you port it.. Cheers. -Martin
@Florian: My public key is up on hkp://subkeys.pgp.net. @Martin: Thx, the idea for the hooks came when I saw the catalyst-hook on AUR. And thx for your upcoming support regarding Pantheon. For now I own a few bzr and regular packages on the AUR, Ner0 has most of the rest. There are still a few missing plugs for switchboard, but right now I can already launch a pantheon session on my desktop. Maxime
There are still a few missing plugs for switchboard, but right now I can already launch a pantheon session on my desktop.
Maxime
Excellent, it would be great to have a wiki page with a guide to have a smooth Pantheon DE install. Anything you guys need just ask.
On 01/30/2013 03:09 PM, Maxime Gauduin wrote:
I realize I may not be as skilled as most current TUs, as I do not know any language and am not a developper. However I know my way around bash very well. I really enjoy writing PKGBUILDs for apps I'm using, and poking around when something does not work.
Bash is a language =) It has "if" and "for" and functions and variables! (even if it's not a very good language. Let's say you have the name of a file you need to remove, stored in a variable? This is how: rm -- "$VARIABLE" Every use of a variable must be surrounded in double-quotes unless you have considered the consequences of splitting it by the value of IFS and decided this to be safe and desirable. `man rm` explains "--", a feature which most but not all shell commands offer. And (depending on your risk model) what if PATH is odd and contains an `rm` binary that does something else? Robustness/security is always complicated, but most languages don't have this sort of pitfall =) -Isaac
On 30/01/13 21:09, Maxime Gauduin wrote:
The packages I'd like to bring to [community] are mainly the newly released higan emulator (which I have declined into higan-gtk and higan-qt on the AUR) and its associated patcher beat, firewalld and python2-slip from Fedora, the Faience themes and icon theme, ffmpegsource and my mkinitcpio hooks if they are eligible. Also after some talking with Svenstaro, it seems emulators on Arch need some love: we don't have, for example, a GB emulator (apart from higan, but which is not that great for this at the moment). I have just adopted dolphin-emu-git, I'm willing to bring the stable version, if it's okay with the current maintainer, and I just adopted the vba-m package (but still haven't updated it yet).
So I take it, that you want to maintain game emulators in [community]? Are there any orphan packages in [community] which you like to maintain? What are you packaging interest apart from emulators/pantheon?
On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 12:43 +0100, Jelle van der Waa wrote:
On 30/01/13 21:09, Maxime Gauduin wrote:
The packages I'd like to bring to [community] are mainly the newly released higan emulator (which I have declined into higan-gtk and higan-qt on the AUR) and its associated patcher beat, firewalld and python2-slip from Fedora, the Faience themes and icon theme, ffmpegsource and my mkinitcpio hooks if they are eligible. Also after some talking with Svenstaro, it seems emulators on Arch need some love: we don't have, for example, a GB emulator (apart from higan, but which is not that great for this at the moment). I have just adopted dolphin-emu-git, I'm willing to bring the stable version, if it's okay with the current maintainer, and I just adopted the vba-m package (but still haven't updated it yet).
So I take it, that you want to maintain game emulators in [community]? Are there any orphan packages in [community] which you like to maintain?
What are you packaging interest apart from emulators/pantheon?
I had a look at the orphaned package in [community]. While I'd prefer maintaining packages I'm using on a regular basis, like the emulators and the few packages I mentioned before, I don't mind taking care of some of those orphaned. I haven't really any other interest for now, but no uninterest either. Any package I am/will be maintaining is a learning experience in its own, I won't say no to more of them, and if I can be of use to Arch users, that's two birds with one stone.
On 30.01.2013 21:09, Maxime Gauduin wrote:
Hi all,
My name is Maxime Gauduin, I'm 23 and I live in France where I work as a chemical engineer. I've been using Arch Linux for almost 2 years now, and have been thinking about applying for a TU position for a while. Recently I was contacted by Svenstaro, asking if I minded him putting my higan package in [community]. That was the trigger, and Svenstaro kindly offered to be my sponsor.
I have been into computers since the age of 10, when I had my first one, at the time it was running Win98. The first time I installed a Linux distro I was 18, and the distro was Ubuntu. Not long after, I decided to try other distros, I switched to LinuxMint, which I really liked, then LMDE. However I had always wanted the bleeding edge, because I was building all my emulators, and the video codecs for my encoding needs. That is when I stumbled upon Arch Linux, somebody was praising it on a Linux Youtube show, I thought I'd give it a try. The first install was a learning experience, took me about 4h no less. Today I can have Arch installed in a matter of minutes.
I realize I may not be as skilled as most current TUs, as I do not know any language and am not a developper. However I know my way around bash very well. I really enjoy writing PKGBUILDs for apps I'm using, and poking around when something does not work. I have already sent patches upstream, for the aegisub project [1], for the Pantheon DE on launchpad, and more recently for makepkg. The patch was nothing out of the ordinary, I needed sed to follow symlinks because of the way I'm maintaining my PKGBUILDs [2].
I also have a little project of mine which has been well received by the community, on my Github account [3]. These are mkinitcpio hooks which will build virtualbox, host and guest, and nvidia modules using dkms when generating the initramfs. As I'm mainly using the ck kernel, they make updating a breeze.
I've been involved with the aur-general mailing list since the beginning, and have recently subscribed to the arch-general and pacman-dev. As for the forums, I've got a mere 21 posts as I've been posting only when I had problems, or helping people which had the same problem at the time, which did not happen that often. I also have several contributions to the wiki, on the Virtualbox, Nvidia, Steam pages and others.
The packages I'd like to bring to [community] are mainly the newly released higan emulator (which I have declined into higan-gtk and higan-qt on the AUR) and its associated patcher beat, firewalld and python2-slip from Fedora, the Faience themes and icon theme, ffmpegsource and my mkinitcpio hooks if they are eligible. Also after some talking with Svenstaro, it seems emulators on Arch need some love: we don't have, for example, a GB emulator (apart from higan, but which is not that great for this at the moment). I have just adopted dolphin-emu-git, I'm willing to bring the stable version, if it's okay with the current maintainer, and I just adopted the vba-m package (but still haven't updated it yet).
I'm also thinking of bringing the Pantheon DE to arch, which is the official DE of the newly released elementaryOS Luna beta 1. Currently using Gnome-Shell, I fell in love with Pantheon. I've created a bunch of packages on the AUR to play around with it, but being based on Gnome 3.4 while arch has 3.6 introduces a lot of incompatibilities. Still, I'd really like to overcome these and bring it to Arch users.
Well, I believe that's all I have to say. Thank you all in advance for considering my application. I hope to be able to learn more among all of you.
Discussion period is over. Let's vote: https://aur.archlinux.org/tu/?id=66
It would seem that voting period is over. Alucryd is now a TU! I've updated your user account. Please follow the new TU guidelines on the wiki. Make sure to get into IRC, get your key signed, tell someone to update your account on the bug tracker and the forums.
Le mercredi 13 février 2013 02:42:02 Sven-Hendrik Haase a écrit :
It would seem that voting period is over. Alucryd is now a TU!
I've updated your user account. Please follow the new TU guidelines on the wiki. Make sure to get into IRC, get your key signed, tell someone to update your account on the bug tracker and the forums.
Bienvenu Maxime! ++
On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 09:05 +0100, Laurent Carlier wrote:
Le mercredi 13 février 2013 02:42:02 Sven-Hendrik Haase a écrit :
It would seem that voting period is over. Alucryd is now a TU!
I've updated your user account. Please follow the new TU guidelines on the wiki. Make sure to get into IRC, get your key signed, tell someone to update your account on the bug tracker and the forums.
Bienvenu Maxime!
++
Merci! Heureux de faire partie de l'équipe! -- Maxime
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:28:20AM +0100, Maxime Gauduin wrote:
On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 09:05 +0100, Laurent Carlier wrote:
Le mercredi 13 février 2013 02:42:02 Sven-Hendrik Haase a écrit :
It would seem that voting period is over. Alucryd is now a TU!
I've updated your user account. Please follow the new TU guidelines on the wiki. Make sure to get into IRC, get your key signed, tell someone to update your account on the bug tracker and the forums.
Bienvenu Maxime!
++
Merci! Heureux de faire partie de l'équipe! -- Maxime
congratz and enjoy -- Ike
Congrats :) - Alexander
On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 19:23 +0100, Alexander Rødseth wrote:
Congrats :)
- Alexander
Thank you Ike, Alexander, I'm looking forward to contribute among you guys! -- Maxime
On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 02:42 +0100, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
It would seem that voting period is over. Alucryd is now a TU!
I've updated your user account. Please follow the new TU guidelines on the wiki. Make sure to get into IRC, get your key signed, tell someone to update your account on the bug tracker and the forums.
Thank you! I will do this as soon as possible. -- Maxime
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh@lutzhaase.com> wrote:
It would seem that voting period is over. Alucryd is now a TU!
Bienvenu à board. -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://www.seblu.net GPG: 0x2072D77A
Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
It would seem that voting period is over. Alucryd is now a TU!
I've updated your user account. Please follow the new TU guidelines on the wiki. Make sure to get into IRC, get your key signed, tell someone to update your account on the bug tracker and the forums.
For those of you left wondering, the final tally was yes: 14 no: 8 abstain: 7 help my foot is caught in the rack behind the arch server and it's getting really hot in here: 1
participants (12)
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Alexander Rødseth
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Alucryd
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Florian Pritz
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Ike Devolder
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Isaac Dupree
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Jelle van der Waa
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Laurent Carlier
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Martín Cigorraga
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Maxime Gauduin
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Sven-Hendrik Haase
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Sébastien Luttringer
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Xyne