Hi all,
Besides loving Arch, a few reasons made me leave it as my main distribution. I could surely adapt Arch to my new personal needs, due to its simplicity and flexibility, but due to lack of time and real life pressure, it would not be possible anytime soon. So I'm resigning as a Trusted User.
I'd like to thank you all for giving me this outstanding opportunity and experience. Special thanks to hdoria, angvp, bardo, wonder, foutrelis, ornitorrincos, stefanhusmann, sergej, pierre and all you that helped me or worked with me on a package.
I have a few packages at community. I hope you can adopt some of them.
In special, I'd like to ask that if some TU uses OSS frequently, he adopts it, as this package may require some special care, being a driver package. Most of the users that ask help in the OSS IRC channel are Arch users, so we should have a good amount of OSS users.
Regarding packages in unsupported, it would be nice if some TU could adopt virtualbox_bin. This package needs some care and it would be nice to merge bdheeman's dkms work (virtualbox-sun package) so the duplicates can be removed. Also it would be nice if someone could contact the VirtualBox developers (there is even an irc channel - #vbox) and offer to make this package official. I mean, they have a repository for debian-based and for redhat-based distributions, so maybe they could make an archlinux repository and offer directly there an official ready-to-install package if some help is offered to them.
I will list below my community and unsupported packages to ease adoption.
[community] - oss-related (oss, skype-oss) - djvu-related (djview4, pdf2djvu -> pstreams) - lua-related (luadoc, luafilesystem, luajit, lualogging) - netsurf-related (netsurf -> hubbub, libnsbmp, libnsgif, libparserutils) - latex-related (texmaker)
[unsupported] - vbox-related (virtualbox_bin) - oss-related (xulrunner-oss) - electronics-related (alliance, chipmunksystem, logisim) - lua-related (iup, cd, im, gnuplot-luaterm) - ion3-related (ion-3, trayion) - djvu-related (gsdjvu) - irc-related (kvirc-svn, qirssi) - driver stuff (samsutools) - other stuff (chestnut-dialer, eresi-svn, python-mpmath, uspnet)
By the number of votes, some of them can even go to community if some TU is interested.
Packages virtualbox_bin-1, virtualbox_bin-2, virtualbox_bin-3_0 are legacy stuff requested by users to be left out. The netcfg-rt73 and qc-usb packages are legacy stuff that are probably useless nowadays, unless someone uses an old custom kernel.
Best regards,
Paulo Matias
On 01/31/2010 12:12 PM, Paulo Matias wrote:
Hi all,
Besides loving Arch, a few reasons made me leave it as my main distribution. I could surely adapt Arch to my new personal needs, due to its simplicity and flexibility, but due to lack of time and real life pressure, it would not be possible anytime soon. So I'm resigning as a Trusted User.
I'd like to thank you all for giving me this outstanding opportunity and experience. Special thanks to hdoria, angvp, bardo, wonder, foutrelis, ornitorrincos, stefanhusmann, sergej, pierre and all you that helped me or worked with me on a package.
I have a few packages at community. I hope you can adopt some of them.
In special, I'd like to ask that if some TU uses OSS frequently, he adopts it, as this package may require some special care, being a driver package. Most of the users that ask help in the OSS IRC channel are Arch users, so we should have a good amount of OSS users.
Regarding packages in unsupported, it would be nice if some TU could adopt virtualbox_bin. This package needs some care and it would be nice to merge bdheeman's dkms work (virtualbox-sun package) so the duplicates can be removed. Also it would be nice if someone could contact the VirtualBox developers (there is even an irc channel - #vbox) and offer to make this package official. I mean, they have a repository for debian-based and for redhat-based distributions, so maybe they could make an archlinux repository and offer directly there an official ready-to-install package if some help is offered to them.
I will list below my community and unsupported packages to ease adoption.
[community]
- oss-related (oss, skype-oss)
- djvu-related (djview4, pdf2djvu -> pstreams)
- lua-related (luadoc, luafilesystem, luajit, lualogging)
- netsurf-related (netsurf -> hubbub, libnsbmp, libnsgif, libparserutils)
- latex-related (texmaker)
[unsupported]
- vbox-related (virtualbox_bin)
- oss-related (xulrunner-oss)
- electronics-related (alliance, chipmunksystem, logisim)
- lua-related (iup, cd, im, gnuplot-luaterm)
- ion3-related (ion-3, trayion)
- djvu-related (gsdjvu)
- irc-related (kvirc-svn, qirssi)
- driver stuff (samsutools)
- other stuff (chestnut-dialer, eresi-svn, python-mpmath, uspnet)
By the number of votes, some of them can even go to community if some TU is interested.
Packages virtualbox_bin-1, virtualbox_bin-2, virtualbox_bin-3_0 are legacy stuff requested by users to be left out. The netcfg-rt73 and qc-usb packages are legacy stuff that are probably useless nowadays, unless someone uses an old custom kernel.
Best regards,
Paulo Matias
I've taken over texmaker, and will take over a few more if no one claims them. Best of luck and thanks for allyour work!
On 01/31/2010 08:12 PM, Paulo Matias wrote:
Hi all,
I'd like to thank you all for giving me this outstanding opportunity and experience. Special thanks to hdoria, angvp, bardo, wonder, foutrelis, ornitorrincos, stefanhusmann, sergej, pierre and all you that helped me or worked with me on a package.
thank you for being a part of this team and good luck.
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Ionut Biru biru.ionut@gmail.com wrote:
On 01/31/2010 08:12 PM, Paulo Matias wrote:
Hi all,
I'd like to thank you all for giving me this outstanding opportunity and experience. Special thanks to hdoria, angvp, bardo, wonder, foutrelis, ornitorrincos, stefanhusmann, sergej, pierre and all you that helped me or worked with me on a package.
thank you for being a part of this team and good luck.
-- Ionut
I would extend Ionut: 'They always come back!' :)) Thanks all your help on IRC, Paulo, and I hope someone will maintain virtualbox correctly, it was nice work from you!
Best Regards, Laszlo Papp
Thoty ;(
gratz friend! :)
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 04:12:43PM -0200, Paulo Matias wrote:
[community]
- oss-related (oss, skype-oss)
- djvu-related (djview4, pdf2djvu -> pstreams)
- lua-related (luadoc, luafilesystem, luajit, lualogging)
- netsurf-related (netsurf -> hubbub, libnsbmp, libnsgif, libparserutils)
- latex-related (texmaker)
[unsupported]
- vbox-related (virtualbox_bin)
- oss-related (xulrunner-oss)
- electronics-related (alliance, chipmunksystem, logisim)
- lua-related (iup, cd, im, gnuplot-luaterm)
- ion3-related (ion-3, trayion)
- djvu-related (gsdjvu)
- irc-related (kvirc-svn, qirssi)
- driver stuff (samsutools)
- other stuff (chestnut-dialer, eresi-svn, python-mpmath, uspnet)
Best regards,
Paulo Matias
Hi Paulo, thanks for your contributions.
I'm closely following Lua, and can help out with the luadoc, luafilesystem, and lualogging. luajit doesn't yet work on x86_64, which my machines are, and I haven't played with it at all, so I won't say I can help with that.
Now I'm not a TU, and don't really have the time to take on TU responsibilities even if you trusted me! I'm just offering to help out, in case some TU is willing to adopt them but hesitates on account of lack of experience with Lua. Or if these were to go to AUR, then I could take them.
The four Lua packages in AUR are graphics/plotting packages I don't use. Hopefully there's someone else who does. But if not, I could be a foster parent until someone comes along.
Le Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:41:34 -0500, Jim Pryor lists+aur-general@jimpryor.net a écrit :
I'm closely following Lua, and can help out with the luadoc, luafilesystem, and lualogging. luajit doesn't yet work on x86_64, which my machines are, and I haven't played with it at all, so I won't say I can help with that.
Now I'm not a TU, and don't really have the time to take on TU responsibilities even if you trusted me! I'm just offering to help out, in case some TU is willing to adopt them but hesitates on account of lack of experience with Lua. Or if these were to go to AUR, then I could take them.
The four Lua packages in AUR are graphics/plotting packages I don't use. Hopefully there's someone else who does. But if not, I could be a foster parent until someone comes along.
I am also a Lua user, and as I was reading posts by the Arch Haskell team I thought maybe a project like that should be created for Lua. I would love to see a better support for it in Arch, and especially to see all of Kepler packaged (including Xavante).
If other users on this list are interrested, please email me and maybe we could set up a user repository for lua modules...
Paulo Matias wrote:
Besides loving Arch, a few reasons made me leave it as my main distribution. I could surely adapt Arch to my new personal needs, due to its simplicity and flexibility, but due to lack of time and real life pressure, it would not be possible anytime soon. So I'm resigning as a Trusted User.
Good luck, wherever life takes you.
I will list below my community and unsupported packages to ease adoption.
*SNIP*
I adopted your lua packages in [community].
-- Chris
On 31 January 2010 19:12, Paulo Matias matias@archlinux-br.org wrote:
Hi all,
Besides loving Arch, a few reasons made me leave it as my main distribution. I could surely adapt Arch to my new personal needs, due to its simplicity and flexibility, but due to lack of time and real life pressure, it would not be possible anytime soon. So I'm resigning as a Trusted User.
Sorry to hear that.
Good luck dude!
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Paulo Matias matias@archlinux-br.org wrote: [snip] So I'm resigning as a Trusted User. Thanks for your contributions and good luck in the future.
[snip]
- lua-related (luadoc, luafilesystem, luajit, lualogging)
please don't! :-p I bet most of them are makedepends of my awesome package. So unless someone with more time also needs them as makedepends I suppose I take them next week or so.
Ronald
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 12:06:34PM +0100, Ronald van Haren wrote:
- lua-related (luadoc, luafilesystem, luajit, lualogging)
please don't! :-p I bet most of them are makedepends of my awesome package. So unless someone with more time also needs them as makedepends I suppose I take them next week or so.
I'm glad these packages will have good homes.
I think luadoc is the only (make)dependency for awesome, right?
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 09:08:22AM +0000, Pierre Chapuis wrote:
I am also a Lua user, and as I was reading posts by the Arch Haskell team I thought maybe a project like that should be created for Lua. I would love to see a better support for it in Arch, and especially to see all of Kepler packaged (including Xavante).
If other users on this list are interrested, please email me and maybe we could set up a user repository for lua modules...
Yeah, I was thinking of setting up an automated luarocks2arch system, like Haskell's cabal2arch. I did something like this for most of the Chicken Scheme modules (they're all in AUR, the automatic PKGBUILD-generater works but it's fragile and I haven't distributed it).
I just haven't had time to make any progress on this for lua. But I'm willing to participate when I can.
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Jim Pryor lists+aur-general@jimpryor.net wrote:
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 12:06:34PM +0100, Ronald van Haren wrote:
- lua-related (luadoc, luafilesystem, luajit, lualogging)
please don't! :-p I bet most of them are makedepends of my awesome package. So unless someone with more time also needs them as makedepends I suppose I take them next week or so.
I'm glad these packages will have good homes.
I think luadoc is the only (make)dependency for awesome, right?
no, luadoc in itself depends on lualogging and luafilesystem so the only package which is not covered yet is luajit. Anybody needs that for a package (according to the package it is some lua code compiler?) ?
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 03:58:02PM +0100, Ronald van Haren wrote:
I think luadoc is the only (make)dependency for awesome, right?
no, luadoc in itself depends on lualogging and luafilesystem so the only package which is not covered yet is luajit. Anybody needs that for a package (according to the package it is some lua code compiler?)
Oh yeah, of course.
LuaJIT is an alternative, just-in-time compiler for Lua. The package is going through some radical growth right now, from different directions. I don't expect to see a stable LuaJIT 2.0 release, or a release for x86_64, or a release that tracks Lua 5.2 (now in development releases) anytime very soon.
It looks from http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/luajit/ like nothing in the repos depends on it.
On 31 January 2010 23:42, Paulo Matias matias@archlinux-br.org wrote:
Hi all,
Besides loving Arch, a few reasons made me leave it as my main distribution. I could surely adapt Arch to my new personal needs, due to its simplicity and flexibility, but due to lack of time and real life pressure, it would not be possible anytime soon. So I'm resigning as a Trusted User.
Best of luck with the future!
Abhishek
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