[aur-general] TU Application - Felix Yan
Dear archers, I was looking for a sponsor in August 2012 [1], and thank Jonathan Steel for contacting me right after he became a new TU. He helps me a lot and I'm keeping clean up and improve my PKGBUILDs in AUR with his suggestions. I think I can do more than as a user, so I am now applying to become a Trusted User, after some knowledge & skills preparing in the last few weeks. Bartłomiej Piotrowski has kindly sponsored me (just today :P and thanks a lot). I love Arch mainly because of the PKGBUILD. Never could I find another great and simple-enough to write description file of an easy-to-use package manager. I never created a successful package in .deb although I was a Ubuntu and PPA user for more than two years(Hmm, my lack of knowledge in bash & English should also be a problem at that time). When I began to use Arch, I was impressed deeply by pacman(A lot of points are in "ILoveCandy", although :P) and that's why I switched all my workspaces to Arch. I have been an Archer only for one year and a half but 4 for the Linux world. I submitted my first package by the end of last year, and maintain more and more during the last a few months (61 for now [2], with a total of 460 votes). I am eager to maintain packages that loved and needed by Chinese users as I am one too, such as input methods(fcitx-*, ibus-*, sunpinyin, libpinyin, rime, etc), internet supplicant in Chinese universities(mentohust/ruijieclient), chat tools qq related(linuxqq, webqq, libqq*, etc) and popular proxy tools (sshuttle, goagent, etc). As I am a python programmer and maintaining more than 20 python libraries I use for now, I'm also ready for some popular python libraries. I'll take those orphans in [community] (or possibly [extra] if approved and moved) in these cases, too. I am also a good user in keeping active in reporting and following issues upstream, such as pidgin-lwqq [3]. As I looked after more and more packages on AUR I found many users not so convenient to install so many packages in AUR, so I joined archlinuxcn's community repository project [4] to provide popular packages in binary. But this is not good for user to involve in (such as flag out-of-date, report bugs, etc). It could be a lot better if I could move the most popular ones into [community] so users does not need to manually add a (not fully-trusted) third-party community repository. I am also an IT manager in work, and maintaining several Arch servers. I only use x86_64 architecture but keep an eye on i686 as some of the old hardwares are not ready for 64-bit. I have several popular WM/DEs installed but using XFCE mostly. I am a wine user and keep an eye on its fresh news. Although I am not using any wine programs too much, I sometimes play osu! or TESV: Skyrim under wine. Some more info about me: 21, male, Wuhan in China, working in a startup, not very good at C and English, but trying to keep them in a package-ready level :P A classical music lover, and also accept some of the NewAge. Thank you for your time in reading my application. [1] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2012-August/020104.html [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&K=felixonmars&do_Search=Go&detail=1&C=0&SeB=m&SB=n&SO=a&PP=100&outdated= [3] https://github.com/xiehuc/pidgin-lwqq/issues?page=1&state=closed (Chinese) Kind regards, Felix Yan Twitter: @felixonmars Wiki: http://felixc.at
On 10/21/2012 05:04 PM, Felix Yan wrote:
Bartłomiej Piotrowski has kindly sponsored me (just today :P and thanks a lot).
I confirm my sponsorship. So, let the discussion begin! -- Bartłomiej Piotrowski Arch Linux Trusted User http://archlinux.org/
On 10/21/2012 11:04 PM, Felix Yan wrote:
Dear archers,
I was looking for a sponsor in August 2012 [1], and thank Jonathan Steel for contacting me right after he became a new TU. He helps me a lot and I'm keeping clean up and improve my PKGBUILDs in AUR with his suggestions. I think I can do more than as a user, so I am now applying to become a Trusted User, after some knowledge & skills preparing in the last few weeks. Bartłomiej Piotrowski has kindly sponsored me (just today :P and thanks a lot).
I love Arch mainly because of the PKGBUILD. Never could I find another great and simple-enough to write description file of an easy-to-use package manager. I never created a successful package in .deb although I was a Ubuntu and PPA user for more than two years(Hmm, my lack of knowledge in bash & English should also be a problem at that time). When I began to use Arch, I was impressed deeply by pacman(A lot of points are in "ILoveCandy", although :P) and that's why I switched all my workspaces to Arch.
I have been an Archer only for one year and a half but 4 for the Linux world. I submitted my first package by the end of last year, and maintain more and more during the last a few months (61 for now [2], with a total of 460 votes). I am eager to maintain packages that loved and needed by Chinese users as I am one too, such as input methods(fcitx-*, ibus-*, sunpinyin, libpinyin, rime, etc), internet supplicant in Chinese universities(mentohust/ruijieclient), chat tools qq related(linuxqq, webqq, libqq*, etc) and popular proxy tools (sshuttle, goagent, etc). As I am a python programmer and maintaining more than 20 python libraries I use for now, I'm also ready for some popular python libraries. I'll take those orphans in [community] (or possibly [extra] if approved and moved) in these cases, too.
I am also a good user in keeping active in reporting and following issues upstream, such as pidgin-lwqq [3].
As I looked after more and more packages on AUR I found many users not so convenient to install so many packages in AUR, so I joined archlinuxcn's community repository project [4] to provide popular packages in binary. But this is not good for user to involve in (such as flag out-of-date, report bugs, etc). It could be a lot better if I could move the most popular ones into [community] so users does not need to manually add a (not fully-trusted) third-party community repository.
I am also an IT manager in work, and maintaining several Arch servers.
I only use x86_64 architecture but keep an eye on i686 as some of the old hardwares are not ready for 64-bit. I have several popular WM/DEs installed but using XFCE mostly.
I am a wine user and keep an eye on its fresh news. Although I am not using any wine programs too much, I sometimes play osu! or TESV: Skyrim under wine.
Some more info about me: 21, male, Wuhan in China, working in a startup, not very good at C and English, but trying to keep them in a package-ready level :P A classical music lover, and also accept some of the NewAge.
Thank you for your time in reading my application.
[1] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2012-August/020104.html [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&K=felixonmars&do_Search=Go&detail=1&C=0&SeB=m&SB=n&SO=a&PP=100&outdated= [3] https://github.com/xiehuc/pidgin-lwqq/issues?page=1&state=closed (Chinese)
Kind regards,
Felix Yan Twitter: @felixonmars Wiki: http://felixc.at
Sorry for the wrong signature, I am a new user of Thunderbird :P Now I am confirming my application with correct signature.
Thanks for applying to become a TU. Hopefully this will sort out the ibus packages. :) Your AUR packages look ok, IMO. The quoting of strings and variables is slightly inconsistent, but this happens to the best of us. Vim or emacs? Best of luck! --- Cordially, Alexander Rødseth Arch Linux Trusted User (xyproto on IRC, trontonic on AUR)
Alexander Rødseth wrote:
Your AUR packages look ok, IMO. The quoting of strings and variables is slightly inconsistent, but this happens to the best of us.
I agree with each point above.
Vim or emacs?
Answer very carefully. This is a veiled attempt to assess your diplomatic skills. :P *waits to see if Alexander acquires the new record for derailing an application discussion*
On 10/22/2012 03:28 AM, Alexander Rødseth wrote:
Thanks for applying to become a TU. Hopefully this will sort out the ibus packages. :)
Your AUR packages look ok, IMO. The quoting of strings and variables is slightly inconsistent, but this happens to the best of us. Thanks, I'll take care of this since now.
Vim or emacs? I am only a beginner in vim and not yet used emacs, so It's not appropriate for me to judge which is better :P
In my daily coding (Python mainly), I am using Sublime Text 2, and Geany/Eclipse before I bought a ST2 license myself.
Hi all, Yet another packaging plan(or wish?) of mine: aur/sunpinyin-git => community/sunpinyin git snapshot, to support fcitx-sunpinyin. I've already contacted upstream for several times, but they still have not yet released a new version (for two years already). If this is acceptable, I'd like to hear from Giovanni Scafora :) BTW, there seems to have been already 5 days since the discussion began :P Felix Yan Twitter: @felixonmars Wiki: http://felixc.at
On 10/25/2012 06:17 PM, Felix Yan wrote:
BTW, there seems to have been already 5 days since the discussion began :P
That's right, I definitively need a secretary. ;) So the discussion period is over, let's vote. -- Bartłomiej Piotrowski Arch Linux Trusted User http://archlinux.org/
Hi all, I'd like to take boinc/boinc-nox from the list posted on arch-dev-public just now, if I could pass the vote :P Felix Yan Twitter: @felixonmars Wiki: http://felixc.at
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Alexander Rødseth
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Felix Yan
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