Kessia 'even' Pinheiro ha scritto:

Hi,

My name is Kessia Pinheiro (a.k.a even), I'm a 22 years old finishing my computer scientist degree at Federal University of Bahia in Salvador/Bahia/Brazil. I'm working now part-time on sysadmin stuff's (as treinee). I've used Linux since 2004, with Slackware, but I had problems with many things and decided switch to another distro. I tried many light distros, but none was completed to me. So I discovered Arch in 2006 and I got involved with the brazilian community, helping people and writting some docs [1]. Me and my friends (hdoria and dsa) did a speech about ArchLinux in FISL [2] this April in Porto Alegre/Brazil. Other contribution is the pacupdate (developed with hdoria), a tray notifier for new updates for pacman [3].

Recently I'm interested in packaging for Arch, because some applications I used aren't in the repositories. Before Arch, I packaged a private .deb for my work, finally I sweat a lot and I couldn't remember exactly what I did, but i did it. So, I discover the Arch way to package and in few minutes my package was at AUR, I was so happy! So, now my contributions with PKGBUILDs are 16 [4] and growing. I'm packaging some stuff's that i have not found in repositories and these are helpful for some people. I'm also adopting some to help the number of orphans be lower. So, as a TU, my plans are help manage AUR and community repo, also trying alert the contributors about problems with their PKGBUILDs, because many packages are out of date for a long time or with incomplete PKGBUILDs or incorrect. I want to help with some security apps too (my major contribution was snort package, hdoria adopted it in extra), helping to make more eyes at the security topic. My main machine is a Dell laptop and i am using Arch i686 (but this laptop has an x86_64 architecture, so I'll install Arch64 this week). I have an old machine at work, but normally I use the laptop there too. My boyfriend also have the same laptop with Arch i686.

In my free time I like stay with my boyfriend, play videogames, listen music, read things are out of my degree course, viewing tv series. Oh, the last thing, hdoria and angvp encouraged me to do this proposal, in fact they fought for who will be my sponsor, but angvp finally push more and he wins. However, hdoria is a friend of mine and he will share the sponsor with angvp (to be fair and no one cry). =) Let's start the questions, I'm honored to answer. Thanks for your time!

To find me: even @ irc.freenode.net even [at] archlinux-br [dot] org

[1] http://even.archlinux-br.org/ [2] http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/9.0/papers/pub/programacao/26 [3] http://code.google.com/p/pacupdate [4] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=even

Even, finally our beloved brazilian hacker girl :D, as she said, i pushed her to do this, so i can say that it's an honour for me sponsoring Kessia, she is very qualified to be a Trusted User. Let's start the discussion period -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Trusted User (TU) http://www.angvp.com

Oh no, Angel won :(. Hate you, man. Well, i'm sure that Kessia will be a great TU and that she have all the necessary skills for the role. She already has built several packages and helped others with it. Kessia is also a official member and developer of Arch Linux Brazil (i think she forgot to say this) and help us in various things, including our task, forum, IRC etc. We gave a lecture about Arch in the last International Forum of Free Software and the next day 20 we'll give another in Software Freedom Day. Well that's it. As I spoke, I'm sure that she will be a good TU and I am willing to help Angel with the sponsor thing. BTW, Will Kessia be the first female TU or we already had another? -- Hugo

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Hugo Doria wrote:

Oh no, Angel won :(. Hate you, man.

Don't hate! You are my friend too!

Well, i'm sure that Kessia will be a great TU and that she have all the necessary skills for the role. She already has built several packages and helped others with it.

Kessia is also a official member and developer of Arch Linux Brazil (i think she forgot to say this) and help us in various things, including our task, forum, IRC etc. We gave a lecture about Arch in the last International Forum of Free Software and the next day 20 we'll give another in Software Freedom Day.

Yeah, I forgot this SFD thing. . . Is the organization crazying me. =)

Well that's it. As I spoke, I'm sure that she will be a good TU and I am willing to help Angel with the sponsor thing.

BTW, Will Kessia be the first female TU or we already had another?

Hugo want more females as TU. . . but he is almost married, with a son! =) He's a joker, but everyone likes him...

-- Hugo

-- Kessia Pinheiro Student at Computer Science - UFBa Trainee with ProCaTI founds - DiSup/CPD - UFBa Contributor in Arch Linux Brasil Project Linux Counter User #389695 - [http://counter.li.org] http://even.archlinux-br.org

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Allan McRae wrote:

Kessia 'even' Pinheiro wrote:

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Hi,

My name is Kessia Pinheiro (a.k.a even)

I have had a quick look at your PKGBUILDs in the AUR and have a couple of minor comments.

- When you patch a file, you should source the patch from $scrdir rather that $startdir (e.g in ufw you use "patch -p0 -i ${startdir}/lsb_init-functions.patch").

I fixed that, was a distraction. . .

- In the sniffit package, you patch before changing to the source directory. Haven't tested but it looks strange to me.

That was my first package. . . =] But now I changed that little mistake.

- Does ibam really need libstdc++5 ?

I check in docs and test without libstdc++5 and really isn't needed. I corrected that.

- The BSD license is not standard so you need to install it to /usr/share/licenses/$pkgname for each package that uses it

Ok now!

- You have a lot of packages with a "GPL2" license. Are you sure these are not "GPL2 or later" which would mean the license is GPL? They could all be right as far as I know, it just seems an unusually large proportion of you packages.

All packages with GPL2 are explicit in their licenses. Hugo Doria says me to be specific when the software say me the version of the license.

Other than those points, you seem to have all the packaging skills required to be a TU and you have been contributing to the Arch (Brazil) community so I will be pleased to welcome you on board.

Allan

Very thanks! We you domain the world someday...! =) Other guy from Brazil will send the proposal soon... Wait more few days. -- Kessia Pinheiro Student at Computer Science - UFBa Trainee with ProCaTI founds - DiSup/CPD - UFBa Contributor in Arch Linux Brasil Project Linux Counter User #389695 - [http://counter.li.org] http://even.archlinux-br.org