[aur-general] TU application
Hello Arch Linux community, This is my application to become an Arch trusted user. My name is Antonio Rojas, I'm a mathematician and professor from Spain. Andrea Scarpino has kindly encouraged me to apply and agreed to sponsor my application. I started using Linux in grad school in 1999 (Red Hat). I quickly got to like it, but since it was preinstalled I was missing all the fun of installing and configuring it. Around 2004 I finally decided to install it in my own computers, first in virtual machines and then as the main OS. After trying a few distros I settled with Mandriva, and kept using it until the company started going downhill. Then I moved briefly to Fedora, until I discovered Arch around 2008 and I haven't left since then. It requires the perfect ammount of fiddling to make it work (for my taste) and I love always having the latest software available. In the last few years I've been an active user in the forum [1] (mostly helping people with KDE issues) and bug tracker [2], both in Arch and in upstream KDE. Despite not being a programmer, I've occasionally sent small patches to fix some issues. I've been maintaining packages in AUR for a few years, some of them have been moved to the repos. Currently I maintain close to 200 packages [3], most of them KDE related. I maintain the git versions of KDE Frameworks and Plasma, and created and maintained the first version of the Plasma 5 packages that were moved to [extra] last week. I think the next few months are going to be very exciting in the KDE world, with apps being ported to Frameworks and new apps popping up that could be moved to [community] when they become popular. Among the KDE apps that I would like to maintain in community are some that were dropped in the past but are still maintained upstream, like partitionmanager or kmplayer, some addons for Plasma 5 like sddm-kcm or kde- gtk-config (they are very recent so don't have many votes yet, but their KDE4 version is quite popular), and other ones like bangarang or zanshin which were unmaintained upstream for a while but have seen very active development in the last few weeks. I could also maintain some orphan KDE/Qt packages in community: rekonq, kcm-touchpad, texmaker. Besides KDE, my other interest is mathematical and scientific applications in general. Those tend to be quite specialized, so not many of them satisfy the requirements to be moved to [community]. What I would like to do however (if arcanis agrees, of course) is try to package sage-mathematics "properly". That is, instead of shipping the monolithic monster that upstream provides, with private copies of many system libraries (which sometimes cause conflicts with system libs, like it happened with the last major bash upgrade), package all missing dependencies and build the Sage library against them. This is a big task, since Sage has a huge number of dependencies, but Fedora and Mandriva (before it died) already do it this way since a few years ago, so it could be used as a model. Besides the obvious advantages in terms of disk space and runtime memory savings, this would also provide the individual components by themselves in the repos, so those interested could use them without having to install a 2.5 GB package. I looked into it when I was maintaining Sage in AUR, but I decided it wouldn't be practical to make people compile lots of different packages, now that it's in the repos it's a different story. Some other packages that I would like to move to the repos: clipgrab, speedcrunch, some libreoffice-latex extensions (writer2latex and texmaths), opensc (dropped recently for lack of TUs interest). I would also consider moving the LXQt desktop, the port of lxde to Qt5 and KF5, which has seen its first stable release recently. Thank you all for considering my application. Regards, Antonio [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=53078 [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/user/5403 [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=arojas
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Antonio Rojas <nqn76sw@gmail.com> wrote:
This is my application to become an Arch trusted user. My name is Antonio Rojas, I'm a mathematician and professor from Spain. Andrea Scarpino has kindly encouraged me to apply and agreed to sponsor my application.
...and I'm very happy you did accept! As I said time ago Antonio has been fundamental for Plasma 5 packages, but he also helped me a lot handling the conflicts with KDE4. Also, since some TU resigned I guess we lack a "KDE figure" in our team at the moment. Let the discussion period begin! Good luck Antonio! -- Andrea
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Andrea Scarpino <andrea@archlinux.org> wrote:
As I said time ago Antonio has been fundamental for Plasma 5 packages, but he also helped me a lot handling the conflicts with KDE4.
Oh, about his packaging skills you can see I changed very few and minor things (you can take a look to our SVN history: I pushed his version first, and then I applied some change where needed). -- Andrea
Op donderdag 23 oktober 2014 09:33:57 schreef Andrea Scarpino:
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Andrea Scarpino <andrea@archlinux.org> wrote:
As I said time ago Antonio has been fundamental for Plasma 5 packages, but he also helped me a lot handling the conflicts with KDE4.
Oh, about his packaging skills you can see I changed very few and minor things (you can take a look to our SVN history: I pushed his version first, and then I applied some change where needed).
Great to have another KDE enthousiast applying here :) -- Ike
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Antonio Rojas <nqn76sw@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Arch Linux community,
This is my application to become an Arch trusted user. My name is Antonio Rojas, I'm a mathematician and professor from Spain. Andrea Scarpino has kindly encouraged me to apply and agreed to sponsor my application.
The discussion period is over, TUs let's vote! https://aur.archlinux.org/tu/?id=78 -- Andrea
On 31.10.2014 08:44, Andrea Scarpino wrote:
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Antonio Rojas <nqn76sw@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Arch Linux community,
This is my application to become an Arch trusted user. My name is Antonio Rojas, I'm a mathematician and professor from Spain. Andrea Scarpino has kindly encouraged me to apply and agreed to sponsor my application.
The discussion period is over, TUs let's vote!
The vote is over: Yes: 24 No: 2 Abstain: 1 Welcome to the TU team Antonio!
El Viernes, 7 de noviembre de 2014 a las 10:34 Florian Pritz escribió:
The vote is over:
Yes: 24 No: 2 Abstain: 1
Welcome to the TU team Antonio!
Great, thanks! Going through the to-do list now.
Hi Antonio Sorry I caught this late. I'm an lxqt developer and I maintain the lxqt git packages on the AUR. Please email me if you would like help packaging them for arch, I would like to assist. On Nov 7, 2014 3:27 PM, "Antonio Rojas" <nqn76sw@gmail.com> wrote:
El Viernes, 7 de noviembre de 2014 a las 10:34 Florian Pritz escribió:
The vote is over:
Yes: 24 No: 2 Abstain: 1
Welcome to the TU team Antonio!
Great, thanks! Going through the to-do list now.
On 07/11/2014 10:34, Florian Pritz wrote:
On 31.10.2014 08:44, Andrea Scarpino wrote:
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Antonio Rojas <nqn76sw@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Arch Linux community,
This is my application to become an Arch trusted user. My name is Antonio Rojas, I'm a mathematician and professor from Spain. Andrea Scarpino has kindly encouraged me to apply and agreed to sponsor my application.
The discussion period is over, TUs let's vote!
The vote is over:
Yes: 24 No: 2 Abstain: 1
Welcome to the TU team Antonio!
Welcome aboard. -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer Archlinux Developer https://seblu.net | Twitter: @seblu42 GPG: 0x2072D77A
On Fri 07, November 10:34:13 Florian Pritz wrote:
The vote is over:
Yes: 24 No: 2 Abstain: 1
Great result! Congrats Antonio!!! -- Andrea Arch Linux Developer
participants (7)
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Andrea Scarpino
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Antonio Rojas
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Florian Pritz
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Ike Devolder
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Jerome Leclanche
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Muflone
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Sébastien Luttringer