2008/1/9, Allan McRae :

Hello,

I'm Allan McRae and go by the imaginative username "Allan" on the AUR, forums and bug tracker. I maintain around 25 packages in the AUR (although around half of these are perl-modules) and have had a package moved to community (sunbird). If you elect me to be a TU, I will initially move several of my packages (xmltv + dependencies, desemume, colordiff) to community as well as a couple of other popular packages I use often that are fairly popular (jabref, possibly notecase). I am currently unable to build x86_64 packages as my 64bit desktop has been dead for the last three months (from a power surge I think) and I have given up on fixing it but will probably buy a new one in the coming months.

I have been using Linux since Red Hat 8.0 was released (late 2002?). I shuffled from Fedora to Ubuntu to Debian before building a Linux From Scratch system. I discovered Arch when I was looking at finding a package manager to use in LFS and installed it "temporarily" to build my new LFS system. That was about a year and a half ago... I now have Arch installed on two servers, a (broken) desktop and a laptop. As an Arch user, I am fairly active on the forums and like to go bug squashing occasionally. I have also contributed a couple of patches to pacman. I have written a script for maintaining R libraries but I think no-one but me actually uses it.

A bit about me personally. I am 27 years old, a New Zealander currently living in Brisbane, Australia. I work as a statistical geneticist for a large medical research institute. Apart from computers, my major hobbies include martial arts and watching anime.

I have Roman lined up to sponsor me.

Yep, I'm sponsoring Allan on his way to become a TU. He's a great guy, helped me alot with bugtracker. And his packages are in good quality, and often more than simple configure/make/make install. I'm sure Allan will be a good addition to our team. This starts the discussion period (5 days). -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

2008/1/9, Firmicus :

I think it would be great to have you on board Allan!

As I have never sponsored anybody, and since I know the stuff you maintain on AUR, I am going to pass by Roman (sorry!) and hereby declare my willingness to sponsor you :P

Ha! You've late by 10 minutes. :-P Now Allan is sponsored 2 times, which is not bad at all. :-) -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

Roman Kyrylych a écrit :

2008/1/9, Firmicus :

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I think it would be great to have you on board Allan!

As I have never sponsored anybody, and since I know the stuff you maintain on AUR, I am going to pass by Roman (sorry!) and hereby declare my willingness to sponsor you :P

Ha! You've late by 10 minutes. :-P Now Allan is sponsored 2 times, which is not bad at all. :-)

Fine with me! You are a great sponsor anyway ;) Next time I'll write the email in advance, so I can paste in the name of whoever I want to sponsor and I'll beat you! Of course I'm kidding. F

On Jan 10, 2008 1:42 AM, Aaron Griffin wrote:

While I'm not really a TU and don't get a vote, I want to say that I fully support Allan here. Allan is one of my (many) heroes.

+1 from me too, I'd love to see Allan become a TU after all the work I've seen him do for Arch. -- Callan 'wizzomafizzo' Barrett