[aur-general] TU request?
Hi everyone, Terribly sorry if this is misplaced. Do I have to send a request to somebody in order to apply to become a trusted user? Anyway, I was recently reading a thread created on the forums that was basically talking about a need for new trusted users from within the community. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103250 Most of the discussion is on page two and beyond. We were talking about how having a larger amount of TU's and having them each maintain a smaller number of packages, typically ones that they use themselves, would seem more logical, or at least get packages synced quicker with upstream. After a nudge from Allan, I finally decided to apply. Again, sorry if this is in the wrong location. Could someone point me in the right direction if it isn't? (I checked the TODO section under the "Trusted User Guidelines" page on the wiki, but I assume that is for after you have been approved?) Don't hesitate to ask for more information. :-) Thanks, Brad
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Brad Fanella <bradfanella@archlinux.us>wrote:
Hi everyone, Terribly sorry if this is misplaced. Do I have to send a request to somebody in order to apply to become a trusted user?
Anyway, I was recently reading a thread created on the forums that was basically talking about a need for new trusted users from within the community. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103250
Most of the discussion is on page two and beyond. We were talking about how having a larger amount of TU's and having them each maintain a smaller number of packages, typically ones that they use themselves, would seem more logical, or at least get packages synced quicker with upstream. After a nudge from Allan, I finally decided to apply.
Again, sorry if this is in the wrong location. Could someone point me in the right direction if it isn't? (I checked the TODO section under the "Trusted User Guidelines" page on the wiki, but I assume that is for after you have been approved?)
Don't hesitate to ask for more information. :-) Thanks, Brad
Find a sponsor, make sure your packages are in order, submit an application via email. If you need an idea of what to write, check out applications that have been submitted in the past.
On 21.08.2010 09:10, Brad Fanella wrote:
Hi everyone, Terribly sorry if this is misplaced. Do I have to send a request to somebody in order to apply to become a trusted user?
Anyway, I was recently reading a thread created on the forums that was basically talking about a need for new trusted users from within the community. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103250
Most of the discussion is on page two and beyond. We were talking about how having a larger amount of TU's and having them each maintain a smaller number of packages, typically ones that they use themselves, would seem more logical, or at least get packages synced quicker with upstream. After a nudge from Allan, I finally decided to apply.
Again, sorry if this is in the wrong location. Could someone point me in the right direction if it isn't? (I checked the TODO section under the "Trusted User Guidelines" page on the wiki, but I assume that is for after you have been approved?)
Don't hesitate to ask for more information. :-) Thanks, Brad
Hi Brad, I'm sorry to inform you that this was indeed the completely wrong place to post - and you even did so in a totally inappropriate fashion that utterly insulted us all. You therefore redeemed your only life time chance to become a TU for Arch Linux. Better luck next time. However, this time - and only this time - am I willing to forego such a blatant and glaring disruption of harmony on this peaceful and orderly mailing list. If you want to become TU and make up for all the damage you have caused, you need to find a sponsor (any TU with a unix beard is qualified for that) first. In order to find a sponsor, you need to provide info on what you currently maintain in AUR, if you have an overall goal/target group like usability, core development, games (yay) that you want to focus on and some general info about yourself, including age, location, experience with Arch and possibly other distros as well possible coding skills. Optional info: eye color, shoe size, favorite color, pets, names of people you regularly have contact with, credit card numbers and bank account details. A TU wanting to sponsor you will reply to this thread and will start the discussion period after which a voting period will follow. If the voting quorum is met, happy birthday, you are in. If not, an Arch Linux TU application expert will be dispatched to your location and will take care of you. Good luck. Survival advice 01: Do never attempt to start a thread about the inclusion of cdrtools or big packages. Survival advice 02: Some people on Arch Linux overuse sarcasm at an attempt at being funny. Don't fall prey to their silliness. Survival advice 03: Do not neglect the update of an outdated package. People become *very* angry when an upstream update doesn't hit Arch Linux repositories within one hour of release. Don't make this error. Lives depend on this. -- Sven-Hendrik
Thank you both for that information. I should be posting an application with a lot more (useful) information about my goals and such. And I had to figure out about the presence of sarcasm in the Arch community the hard way - around 1000 posts ago. Thanks, Brad On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh@lutzhaase.com>wrote:
Hi everyone, Terribly sorry if this is misplaced. Do I have to send a request to somebody in order to apply to become a trusted user?
Anyway, I was recently reading a thread created on the forums that was basically talking about a need for new trusted users from within the community. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103250
Most of the discussion is on page two and beyond. We were talking about how having a larger amount of TU's and having them each maintain a smaller number of packages, typically ones that they use themselves, would seem more logical, or at least get packages synced quicker with upstream. After a nudge from Allan, I finally decided to apply.
Again, sorry if this is in the wrong location. Could someone point me in
On 21.08.2010 09:10, Brad Fanella wrote: the
right direction if it isn't? (I checked the TODO section under the "Trusted User Guidelines" page on the wiki, but I assume that is for after you have been approved?)
Don't hesitate to ask for more information. :-) Thanks, Brad
Hi Brad,
I'm sorry to inform you that this was indeed the completely wrong place to post - and you even did so in a totally inappropriate fashion that utterly insulted us all. You therefore redeemed your only life time chance to become a TU for Arch Linux. Better luck next time.
However, this time - and only this time - am I willing to forego such a blatant and glaring disruption of harmony on this peaceful and orderly mailing list.
If you want to become TU and make up for all the damage you have caused, you need to find a sponsor (any TU with a unix beard is qualified for that) first. In order to find a sponsor, you need to provide info on what you currently maintain in AUR, if you have an overall goal/target group like usability, core development, games (yay) that you want to focus on and some general info about yourself, including age, location, experience with Arch and possibly other distros as well possible coding skills. Optional info: eye color, shoe size, favorite color, pets, names of people you regularly have contact with, credit card numbers and bank account details.
A TU wanting to sponsor you will reply to this thread and will start the discussion period after which a voting period will follow. If the voting quorum is met, happy birthday, you are in. If not, an Arch Linux TU application expert will be dispatched to your location and will take care of you.
Good luck.
Survival advice 01: Do never attempt to start a thread about the inclusion of cdrtools or big packages. Survival advice 02: Some people on Arch Linux overuse sarcasm at an attempt at being funny. Don't fall prey to their silliness. Survival advice 03: Do not neglect the update of an outdated package. People become *very* angry when an upstream update doesn't hit Arch Linux repositories within one hour of release. Don't make this error. Lives depend on this.
-- Sven-Hendrik
On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 02:53 -0500, Brad Fanella wrote:
Thank you both for that information. I should be posting an application with a lot more (useful) information about my goals and such. And I had to figure out about the presence of sarcasm in the Arch community the hard way - around 1000 posts ago.
Thanks, Brad
Only a 1000 posts? Meh, no wonder you haven't figured out bottom-posting (otherwise known as the scourge of the Internet) yet. And no, the Arch community doesn't have sarcasm at all.
On Sat 21 Aug 2010 02:10 -0500, Brad Fanella wrote:
Hi everyone, Terribly sorry if this is misplaced. Do I have to send a request to somebody in order to apply to become a trusted user?
Anyway, I was recently reading a thread created on the forums that was basically talking about a need for new trusted users from within the community. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103250
Most of the discussion is on page two and beyond. We were talking about how having a larger amount of TU's and having them each maintain a smaller number of packages, typically ones that they use themselves, would seem more logical, or at least get packages synced quicker with upstream. After a nudge from Allan, I finally decided to apply.
Make sure to read the Trusted User Bylaws. That describes the way the Trusted User community works.
participants (5)
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Brad Fanella
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Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227)
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Loui Chang
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Ng Oon-Ee
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Sven-Hendrik Haase