Hi, In October 2011 I sent an email to register my interest in becoming a TU [1] (thinking that was the next step to get involved) and I received some helpful responses of how I can be more involved with Arch, without jumping in as a TU right away. Over the last 10 months my AUR packages have continued to grow as I found time to look after more. I currently maintain 58 packages [2]. I often get in contact with upstream to help with any queries or issues and feel that I do a good job staying on top of everything. I'm not on IRC much, but I keep a very close eye on mailing lists, the forum and what's going on in the AUR. Generally I stay quiet and get on with it and only make a noise if necessary or to help someone. I am hoping for some further guidance now, and hopefully for a TU to take me under their wing to get me closer to becoming a TU, as I would love to maintain some of my packages in [community] such as gsimplecal, partclone, obkey, scratch and some games, and also some packages I do not maintain like dvdbackup and clonezilla. I am a fast learner so should not be much of a burden. Many thanks, jsteel [1] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2011-October/016278.html [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&K=jsteel&do_Search=Go&detail=1&C=0&SeB=m&SB=n&SO=a&PP=100&outdated=
On 08/09/2012 12:56 AM, jsteel wrote:
Hi,
In October 2011 I sent an email to register my interest in becoming a TU [1] (thinking that was the next step to get involved) and I received some helpful responses of how I can be more involved with Arch, without jumping in as a TU right away.
Over the last 10 months my AUR packages have continued to grow as I found time to look after more. I currently maintain 58 packages [2]. I often get in contact with upstream to help with any queries or issues and feel that I do a good job staying on top of everything. I'm not on IRC much, but I keep a very close eye on mailing lists, the forum and what's going on in the AUR. Generally I stay quiet and get on with it and only make a noise if necessary or to help someone.
I am hoping for some further guidance now, and hopefully for a TU to take me under their wing to get me closer to becoming a TU, as I would love to maintain some of my packages in [community] such as gsimplecal, partclone, obkey, scratch and some games, and also some packages I do not maintain like dvdbackup and clonezilla. I am a fast learner so should not be much of a burden.
Many thanks,
jsteel
[1] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2011-October/016278.html [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&K=jsteel&do_Search=Go&detail=1&C=0&SeB=m&SB=n&SO=a&PP=100&outdated=
Hi Jonathan, Can you provide some links to your upstream contributions (patches, pull requests, bug reports)? I think it's ok if you are not too noisy on the ML or the forums but you should have excellent response times in case you become TU. Your AUR packages really do have quite a few votes. I noticed you still have || return 1s in there. You should delete those as this is now default behaviour. I also noticed that while you have adopted quite a few packages, you only ever submitted 3. That is ok since there are already many packages in AUR and it doesn't really need further bloating but do you know how to write a PKGBUILD from scratch? You also haven't even cleaned up some packages you adopted and it some it still has the old guy as the maintainer. You should definitely spend some time on your packages there and at least build/upload them once with your data as opposed to just clicking "adopt". If you clean your packages following my above suggestions, I might sponsor you. -- Sven-Hendrik
On 9 August 2012 08:56, Sven-Hendrik Haase
Can you provide some links to your upstream contributions (patches, pull requests, bug reports)?
By "help with any queries or issues" I mean looking for help getting it running on Arch to help create a working PKGBUILD, not contributing to the projects as such; just using Web/forums/lists/bugs/IRC/email usually in that order. With forums/lists/bugs I may just monitor rather than participate unless necessary. Here's a few recent examples: abe had an issue which I found a fix for from an existing bug report: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1463202&group_id=70141&atid=526743 I was in contact with openclonk on IRC where I relayed on the package comments that 5.3 should fix the current issues (when released) and that the hg version works (which I also maintain): https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44976 I used to maintain amazonmp3 and was in contact with upstream about issues via email.
you should have excellent response times in case you become TU.
I believe my response times are good. "Excellent" is attainable.
I noticed you still have || return 1s in there. You should delete those as this is now default behaviour. ... You also haven't even cleaned up some packages you adopted and it some it still has the old guy as the maintainer. ... You should definitely spend some time on your packages there and at least build/upload them once with your data as opposed to just clicking "adopt".
Yes, there are packages I have not edited if they work. I will fix these today and any future ones I adopt right away. Thank you for pointing that out.
do you know how to write a PKGBUILD from scratch?
Yes I am very capable of doing this [1]. I have thoroughly read the PKGBULD man page and wiki entry and also about creating packages and standards. I do have one question, and that is the use of curly brackets. I find people recommending and not recommending their use but nothing official stated. I am aware of their purpose so is it down to personal preference?
If you clean your packages following my above suggestions, I might sponsor you.
-- Sven-Hendrik
Thank you. jsteel [1] Example of a PKGBUILD I created from scratch: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=53718
On 08/09/2012 02:43 PM, jsteel wrote:
Yes I am very capable of doing this [1]. I have thoroughly read the PKGBULD man page and wiki entry and also about creating packages and standards. I do have one question, and that is the use of curly brackets. I find people recommending and not recommending their use but nothing official stated. I am aware of their purpose so is it down to personal preference?
Yes, personal preference. Send me a mail after you have made your changes.
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