[aur-general] Trusted User Application
Hello Archers, This is Devin Cofer, aka Ranguvar. I'm writing because I have been thinking for a while about applying to become a Trusted User, and I feel that now I have enough basic knowledge of C, Bash, sed, and Perl to apply. I maintain quite a few<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=Ranguvar>packages, and I'm very fast at updating them, if I may say so, going so far as to provide my own i686 builds for use by bin32-wine<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7915>when [extra] is taking a long time between updates :) The firefox-pgo <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22296> and firefox-pgo-beta <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22919> packages are not mine, but they were completely rewritten by me, as you can see from the comments there. I do officially maintain firefox-pgo-minefield<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32030> . I have sometimes contributed to [extra] and [community] work; I sent an initial mail<http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2009-October/007004.html>to aur-general about updating LLVM to 2.6, and worked on the PKGBUILD for it. Also, I filed a bug <http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16165> for the speedup of Vim package building, and wrote a new script to handle fetching patches, which was much faster than the original (until another user used a better idea to make a far better package :p). Lastly, I have commented on other packages many times and suggested improvements (recent example being autoconf-compat<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7224>), and I submit regular bug reports and duplicate packages -- and I'm very active on the forums <http://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=18355>. As a TU, I will continue to try to improve the quality of AUR PKGBUILDs as a whole, commenting and offering suggestions, deleting duplicates, and orphaning long-out-of-date packages. As for packages I bring into [community], I will probably end up focusing on development tools. Xyne has kindly agreed to sponsor my application; he will likely reply to this soon. Thanks very much for considering me as a possible addition to the TU team! -- Ranguvar
Xyne has kindly agreed to sponsor my application; he will likely reply to this soon. Thanks very much for considering me as a possible addition to the TU team!
-- Ranguvar
Hi all, I think Ranguvar/Devin would make a good TU. From what I've seen on the forum and in the AUR, he is technically competent in general and fully capable of creating and managing packages on his own. He takes an interest in his work and continues to improve it whenever there is room for it. Furthermore I would say that he is relatively well known within the community through his activity on the forum which is helpful and friendly and that he seems to have a pleasant attitude which would mix very well with the current TUs. I am therefore happy to sponsor Ranguvar's application. I suspect that several other TUs will be happy as well to finally see this application. Let the discussion period begin. Regards, Xyne
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 20:08, Xyne <xyne@archlinux.ca> wrote:
Xyne has kindly agreed to sponsor my application; he will likely reply to this soon. Thanks very much for considering me as a possible addition to the TU team!
-- Ranguvar Let the discussion period begin.
Regards, Xyne
Sounds good to me. From what I've seen on the forums, he seems quite competant and would make a good addition to the team :)
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Daenyth Blank <daenyth+arch@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 20:08, Xyne <xyne@archlinux.ca> wrote:
Xyne has kindly agreed to sponsor my application; he will likely reply to this soon. Thanks very much for considering me as a possible addition to the TU team!
-- Ranguvar Let the discussion period begin.
Regards, Xyne
Sounds good to me. From what I've seen on the forums, he seems quite competant and would make a good addition to the team :)
I agree! then I won't delete by accident his packages ! haah (sorry for this again :P) Good luck! -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Trusted User Linux Counter: #359909 http://www.angvp.com
Ranguvar wrote:
Hello Archers,
This is Devin Cofer, aka Ranguvar. I'm writing because I have been thinking for a while about applying to become a Trusted User, and I feel that now I have enough basic knowledge of C, Bash, sed, and Perl to apply. <snip>
My only problem with Ranguvar is that he changes his avatar on the forums too much! :D Then again, his sponsor is becoming guilty of that too... Otherwise, I think he would be a fine TU. Devin has even made comments on improvements to be made on one of my packages in the AUR. But I am too lazy to "|| return 1" and quote ${src,pkg}dir, and promptly ignored them. Allan
Allan McRae wrote:
Ranguvar wrote:
Hello Archers,
This is Devin Cofer, aka Ranguvar. I'm writing because I have been thinking for a while about applying to become a Trusted User, and I feel that now I have enough basic knowledge of C, Bash, sed, and Perl to apply. <snip>
My only problem with Ranguvar is that he changes his avatar on the forums too much! :D Then again, his sponsor is becoming guilty of that too...
Otherwise, I think he would be a fine TU. Devin has even made comments on improvements to be made on one of my packages in the AUR. But I am too lazy to "|| return 1" and quote ${src,pkg}dir, and promptly ignored them.
Allan
I agree (on all points) :P Devin would make a great addition to the team!
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:17:24 +1000 "Allan McRae" wrote:
My only problem with Ranguvar is that he changes his avatar on the forums too much! :D Then again, his sponsor is becoming guilty of that too...
What, is it wednesday already? *changes avatar*
On 18/11/2009, Ranguvar <ranguvar@archlinux.us> wrote:
Hello Archers,
This is Devin Cofer, aka Ranguvar. I'm writing because I have been thinking for a while about applying to become a Trusted User, and I feel that now I have enough basic knowledge of C, Bash, sed, and Perl to apply.
I maintain quite a few<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=Ranguvar>packages, and I'm very fast at updating them, if I may say so, going so far as to provide my own i686 builds for use by bin32-wine<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7915>when [extra] is taking a long time between updates :) The firefox-pgo <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22296> and firefox-pgo-beta <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22919> packages are not mine, but they were completely rewritten by me, as you can see from the comments there. I do officially maintain firefox-pgo-minefield<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32030> .
I have sometimes contributed to [extra] and [community] work; I sent an initial mail<http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2009-October/007004.html>to aur-general about updating LLVM to 2.6, and worked on the PKGBUILD for it. Also, I filed a bug <http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16165> for the speedup of Vim package building, and wrote a new script to handle fetching patches, which was much faster than the original (until another user used a better idea to make a far better package :p). Lastly, I have commented on other packages many times and suggested improvements (recent example being autoconf-compat<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7224>), and I submit regular bug reports and duplicate packages -- and I'm very active on the forums <http://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=18355>.
As a TU, I will continue to try to improve the quality of AUR PKGBUILDs as a whole, commenting and offering suggestions, deleting duplicates, and orphaning long-out-of-date packages. As for packages I bring into [community], I will probably end up focusing on development tools.
Xyne has kindly agreed to sponsor my application; he will likely reply to this soon. Thanks very much for considering me as a possible addition to the TU team!
-- Ranguvar
Wow, this dude really impressed me. Hope you will be soon aboard. -- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Ranguvar <ranguvar@archlinux.us> wrote:
Also, I filed a bug <http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16165> for the speedup of Vim package building, and wrote a new script to handle fetching patches, which was much faster than the original (until another user used a better idea to make a far better package :p).
Just FYI, the topic was brought up to arch-dev-public ML, but it pretty much died. This is my last mail in the thread which remained unanswered : http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2009-October/013865.h... Anyway someone who wants to build/rebuild vim himself can simply use the following AUR packages instead of the official ABS one : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30507 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31000
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com> wrote:
Also, I filed a bug <http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16165> for the speedup of Vim package building, and wrote a new script to handle fetching
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Ranguvar <ranguvar@archlinux.us> wrote: patches,
which was much faster than the original (until another user used a better idea to make a far better package :p).
Just FYI, the topic was brought up to arch-dev-public ML, but it pretty much died. This is my last mail in the thread which remained unanswered :
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2009-October/013865.h...
Anyway someone who wants to build/rebuild vim himself can simply use the following AUR packages instead of the official ABS one : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30507 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31000
I hope that the Vim issue gets resolved soon, Xavier. I like your approach to the problem (VCS) :) 2009/11/17 Angel Velásquez <angvp@archlinux.com.ve>
I agree! then I won't delete by accident his packages ! haah (sorry for this again :P)
Good luck! <http://www.angvp.com/>
And Angel, it's not a big deal xD Thanks, though :P Thanks to all of you, for your kind words :) -- Ranguvar
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 01:35:29AM +0100, Ranguvar wrote:
Hello Archers,
This is Devin Cofer, aka Ranguvar. I'm writing because I have been thinking for a while about applying to become a Trusted User, and I feel that now I have enough basic knowledge of C, Bash, sed, and Perl to apply.
<snip>
Xyne has kindly agreed to sponsor my application; he will likely reply to this soon. Thanks very much for considering me as a possible addition to the TU team!
-- Ranguvar
Very nice. I like your attitude. I went through the PKGBUILDs in AUR, namcap gives this: PKGBUILD (firefox-pgo-minefield) E: File referenced in $startdir outside of $startdir/src or $startdir/pkg PKGBUILD (fluxbox-git) E: Backup entries should not have preceding slashes PKGBUILD (fluxbox-git-32trans) E: Backup entries should not have preceding slashes There were also some missing md5sum faults reported, but looking into those PKGBUILDs shows, you use sha256sums. Missing md5sum looks to me as a minor issue then. Not stated in your application, but I would like to know how old are you? Good luck. Cheers, Jaroslav -- Gott ist nur ein erdachtes Wort, die Welt uns zu erklären. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Hello, I will be 18 on the 8th of May :) I will check and fix the fluxbox issues, thanks. The firefox-pgo-minefield one I don't think is a true error, though -- it's complaining because I put in some commented-out lines that tar up the freshly checked-out source and save it in $startdir. That's just there as a convenience to me and others who want to mess around with the PKGBUILD. Sincerely, -- Ranguvar On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Jaroslav Lichtblau <tu@dragonlord.cz>wrote:
Hello Archers,
This is Devin Cofer, aka Ranguvar. I'm writing because I have been
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 01:35:29AM +0100, Ranguvar wrote: thinking
for a while about applying to become a Trusted User, and I feel that now I have enough basic knowledge of C, Bash, sed, and Perl to apply.
<snip>
Xyne has kindly agreed to sponsor my application; he will likely reply to this soon. Thanks very much for considering me as a possible addition to
the
TU team!
-- Ranguvar
Very nice. I like your attitude. I went through the PKGBUILDs in AUR, namcap gives this:
PKGBUILD (firefox-pgo-minefield) E: File referenced in $startdir outside of $startdir/src or $startdir/pkg PKGBUILD (fluxbox-git) E: Backup entries should not have preceding slashes PKGBUILD (fluxbox-git-32trans) E: Backup entries should not have preceding slashes
There were also some missing md5sum faults reported, but looking into those PKGBUILDs shows, you use sha256sums. Missing md5sum looks to me as a minor issue then.
Not stated in your application, but I would like to know how old are you? Good luck.
Cheers, Jaroslav
-- Gott ist nur ein erdachtes Wort, die Welt uns zu erklären. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
On 11/19/2009 12:07 AM, Ranguvar wrote:
Hello,
I will be 18 on the 8th of May :)
I will check and fix the fluxbox issues, thanks. The firefox-pgo-minefield one I don't think is a true error, though -- it's complaining because I put in some commented-out lines that tar up the freshly checked-out source and save it in $startdir. That's just there as a convenience to me and others who want to mess around with the PKGBUILD.
good luck in your application. P.S never ever do that again. top posting sucks :D -- Ionut
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Ionut Biru <biru.ionut@gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/19/2009 12:07 AM, Ranguvar wrote:
Hello,
I will be 18 on the 8th of May :)
I will check and fix the fluxbox issues, thanks. The firefox-pgo-minefield one I don't think is a true error, though -- it's complaining because I put in some commented-out lines that tar up the freshly checked-out source and save it in $startdir. That's just there as a convenience to me and others who want to mess around with the PKGBUILD.
good luck in your application.
P.S never ever do that again. top posting sucks :D -- Ionut
Apologies, I'm using Gmail and it's auto-quoting for me. I'm not very familiar with suckless email :)
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Ranguvar <ranguvar@archlinux.us> wrote:
Apologies, I'm using Gmail and it's auto-quoting for me. I'm not very familiar with suckless email :)
I also find this a bit annoying in gmail but I hate top posting :) And you can always try this : http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8041
I believe that the discussion period is five days, is that correct? Is that period now over, then? :) -- Ranguvar
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Ranguvar <ranguvar@archlinux.us> wrote:
I believe that the discussion period is five days, is that correct? Is that period now over, then? :)
-- Ranguvar
Yes it should be five days, but I guess it is up to your sponsor to call it a day and start the voting process. Ronald
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:11:42 +0100 Ronald van Haren <pressh@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Ranguvar <ranguvar@archlinux.us> wrote:
I believe that the discussion period is five days, is that correct? Is that period now over, then? :)
-- Ranguvar
Yes it should be five days, but I guess it is up to your sponsor to call it a day and start the voting process.
Ronald
I was going to do that today when checking the list, but now I think we need to take some time to discuss how pushy Ranguvar is about ending the discussion period. What are you afraid we might discover, huh? :P Ok, the voting period for Ranguvar's TU application has begun.TUs, please log in to the AUR and vote. Someone please check that I've correctly set up the vote. Thanks, Xyne
Xyne wrote:
I was going to do that today when checking the list, but now I think we need to take some time to discuss how pushy Ranguvar is about ending the discussion period. What are you afraid we might discover, huh?
Hah. He's just anxious to wield that power! *grin*
Someone please check that I've correctly set up the vote.
Apparently you did. It worked for me. -- Chris
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Xyne <xyne@archlinux.ca> wrote:
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:11:42 +0100 Ronald van Haren <pressh@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Ranguvar <ranguvar@archlinux.us> wrote:
I believe that the discussion period is five days, is that correct? Is that period now over, then? :)
-- Ranguvar
Yes it should be five days, but I guess it is up to your sponsor to call it a day and start the voting process.
Ronald
I was going to do that today when checking the list, but now I think we need to take some time to discuss how pushy Ranguvar is about ending the discussion period. What are you afraid we might discover, huh?
:P
Ok, the voting period for Ranguvar's TU application has begun.TUs, please log in to the AUR and vote.
Someone please check that I've correctly set up the vote.
Thanks, Xyne
I'm just bored waiting for my Skullcandy RMA or Xbox 360 RMA; I can't code without music, and if I can't snipe either... :P Thanks, Xyne! -- Ranguvar
2009/11/23 Xyne <xyne@archlinux.ca>:
Ok, the voting period for Ranguvar's TU application has begun.TUs, please log in to the AUR and vote.
Damn... never click when you're sleepy... I voted without changing my locale, and my vote wasn't registered. Need more coffee... and a block of the page if the locale isn't en.
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:09 AM, bardo <ilbardo@gmail.com> wrote:
2009/11/23 Xyne <xyne@archlinux.ca>:
Ok, the voting period for Ranguvar's TU application has begun.TUs, please log in to the AUR and vote.
Damn... never click when you're sleepy... I voted without changing my locale, and my vote wasn't registered. Need more coffee... and a block of the page if the locale isn't en.
Same happened to me, I voted and I forgot to change the locale :( -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Trusted User Linux Counter: #359909 http://www.angvp.com
On Tue 24 Nov 2009 10:31 -0300, Angel Velásquez wrote:
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:09 AM, bardo <ilbardo@gmail.com> wrote:
2009/11/23 Xyne <xyne@archlinux.ca>:
Ok, the voting period for Ranguvar's TU application has begun.TUs, please log in to the AUR and vote.
Damn... never click when you're sleepy... I voted without changing my locale, and my vote wasn't registered. Need more coffee... and a block of the page if the locale isn't en.
Same happened to me, I voted and I forgot to change the locale :(
Arrg. I guess I have to make these notices bigger next time.
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue 24 Nov 2009 10:31 -0300, Angel Velásquez wrote:
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:09 AM, bardo <ilbardo@gmail.com> wrote:
2009/11/23 Xyne <xyne@archlinux.ca>:
Ok, the voting period for Ranguvar's TU application has begun.TUs, please log in to the AUR and vote.
Damn... never click when you're sleepy... I voted without changing my locale, and my vote wasn't registered. Need more coffee... and a block of the page if the locale isn't en.
Same happened to me, I voted and I forgot to change the locale :(
Arrg. I guess I have to make these notices bigger next time.
And please in red color, or a reminder before the svp :/ -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Trusted User Linux Counter: #359909 http://www.angvp.com
On Tue 24 Nov 2009 17:52 -0300, Angel Velásquez wrote:
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue 24 Nov 2009 10:31 -0300, Angel Velásquez wrote:
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:09 AM, bardo <ilbardo@gmail.com> wrote:
2009/11/23 Xyne <xyne@archlinux.ca>:
Ok, the voting period for Ranguvar's TU application has begun.TUs, please log in to the AUR and vote.
Damn... never click when you're sleepy... I voted without changing my locale, and my vote wasn't registered. Need more coffee... and a block of the page if the locale isn't en.
Same happened to me, I voted and I forgot to change the locale :(
Arrg. I guess I have to make these notices bigger next time.
And please in red color, or a reminder before the svp :/
I can also animate it, add an alarm sound and flashing lights.
2009/11/24 Loui Chang <louipc.ist@gmail.com>:
On Tue 24 Nov 2009 17:52 -0300, Angel Velásquez wrote:
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue 24 Nov 2009 10:31 -0300, Angel Velásquez wrote:
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:09 AM, bardo <ilbardo@gmail.com> wrote:
2009/11/23 Xyne <xyne@archlinux.ca>:
Ok, the voting period for Ranguvar's TU application has begun.TUs, please log in to the AUR and vote.
Damn... never click when you're sleepy... I voted without changing my locale, and my vote wasn't registered. Need more coffee... and a block of the page if the locale isn't en.
Same happened to me, I voted and I forgot to change the locale :(
Arrg. I guess I have to make these notices bigger next time.
And please in red color, or a reminder before the svp :/
I can also animate it, add an alarm sound and flashing lights.
May I recommend the marquee tag.
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 17:07, Laurie Clark-Michalek <bluepeppers@archlinux.us> wrote:
May I recommend the marquee tag.
Better yet, an animated gif with sparkles! :D
The voting period for Ranguvar's TU application has now ended. With 15 yes votes, 0 no votes and 22 active TUs (according to the wiki), quorum has been reached and the application has been accepted. Welcome aboard, Ranguvar! Go through the new TU checklist here (I've already given you TU status on the AUR.): http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/New_Trusted_User_Checklist#TODO_list_for...
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Xyne <xyne@archlinux.ca> wrote:
The voting period for Ranguvar's TU application has now ended. With 15 yes votes, 0 no votes and 22 active TUs (according to the wiki), quorum has been reached and the application has been accepted.
Welcome aboard, Ranguvar!
Go through the new TU checklist here (I've already given you TU status on the AUR.): http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/New_Trusted_User_Checklist#TODO_list_for...
Congrats! You will be a good addition to the team :) Best Regards, Laszlo Papp
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Xyne wrote:
The voting period for Ranguvar's TU application has now ended. With 15 yes votes, 0 no votes and 22 active TUs (according to the wiki), quorum has been reached and the application has been accepted.
Welcome aboard, Ranguvar!
Go through the new TU checklist here (I've already given you TU status on the AUR.): http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/New_Trusted_User_Checklist#TODO_list_for...
Welcome aboard. You should now be a TU on the forums. Allan
Thanks Allan, Xyne, Thorsten, Laszlo, Xyne, etc. :) Ganbarimasu! -- Ranguvar [Devin Cofer]
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Xyne <xyne@archlinux.ca> wrote:
The voting period for Ranguvar's TU application has now ended. With 15 yes votes, 0 no votes and 22 active TUs (according to the wiki), quorum has been reached and the application has been accepted.
Welcome aboard, Ranguvar!
Go through the new TU checklist here (I've already given you TU status on the AUR.): http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/New_Trusted_User_Checklist#TODO_list_for...
congrats and welcome a board. try not to broke something. this is allan's job :D -- Ionut
participants (17)
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Allan McRae
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Andrea Scarpino
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Angel Velásquez
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bardo
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Chris Brannon
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Daenyth Blank
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Daniel J Griffiths
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Ionut Biru
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Jaroslav Lichtblau
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Laszlo Papp
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Laurie Clark-Michalek
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Loui Chang
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Ranguvar
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Ronald van Haren
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Thorsten Töpper
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Xavier
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Xyne