[aur-general] Trusted User Application
Hi everyone, I would like to apply to become a Trusted User. Ionuț/wonder has kindly agreed to sponsor me. Anyway, here is some info about me: Who am I? My name is Jonathan Conder, from Auckland, New Zealand. I'm currently a full-time student studying Maths and Computer Science (among other things). I've been using Linux since early 2008, after a bit of distro-hopping I moved to Arch, and was very impressed by the wiki and the degree of control I gained over my system. My forum username is PirateJonno, maybe some of you have seen me around. Why do I want to be a TU? Well, Arch has been my distribution of choice for several years now, and I would like to give something back to the community. I hope that this position will enable me to move some popular AUR packages to community. What packages am I interested in? Firstly, I would like to adopt MythTV (and related packages) since they seem to have no current maintainer. This would involve moving them out of extra and into community of course. If the need arises, I would also be willing to maintain anything I have installed, which boils down to a lot of GNOME desktop applications, a few games, and various multimedia programs or libraries. Other packages I would be interested in bringing to community are: fbsplash (along with a few themes) gnome-colors-icon-theme mediatomb (possibly with a few patches) nspluginwrapper-flash (if this presents no ideological issues) Also, I have a few projects of my own that could be added in future, namely PackageKit and nautilus-makepkg. See my AUR/GitHub pages at: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=PirateJonno http://github.com/PirateJonno Can I do the job? I think I have enough experience packaging for Arch to become a TU. Although I don't maintain many AUR packages, I would do if the need arose. I often modify others' packages to change the configure flags, add a custom patch, enable debugging symbols, etc. My work on PackageKit has made me very familiar with the packaging system itself. I am also a reasonably experienced C/C++ programmer, which means I am usually pretty good at tracking down bugs. My ability to find bugs in unfamiliar code is also improving. For example, here are some I have reported/fixed: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?email1=j% 40skurvy.no-ip.org&emailtype1=exact&emailreporter1=1 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?email1=j% 40skurvy.no-ip.org&emailtype1=exact&emailreporter1=1 http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?status[]&opened=PirateJonno Thanks for your time, Jonathan
On 08/17/2010 05:44 AM, Jonathan Conder wrote:
Hi everyone,
I would like to apply to become a Trusted User. Ionuț/wonder has kindly agreed to sponsor me.
This is my approval message. Lets start the discussion period. -- Ionuț
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Ionuț Bîru <ibiru@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 08/17/2010 05:44 AM, Jonathan Conder wrote:
Hi everyone,
I would like to apply to become a Trusted User. Ionuț/wonder has kindly agreed to sponsor me.
This is my approval message.
Lets start the discussion period.
Going through the bug reports, it seems that you have a keen eye and don't let bugs go unnoticed. That said, I am a little bothered by the amount of packages you do maintain currently in the aur which is only 6. Since you do have such a small amount of packages, I will ask, what are your goals after you become a TU?
On 08/17/2010 03:24 PM, Thomas Dziedzic wrote:
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Ionuț Bîru<ibiru@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 08/17/2010 05:44 AM, Jonathan Conder wrote:
Hi everyone,
I would like to apply to become a Trusted User. Ionuț/wonder has kindly agreed to sponsor me.
This is my approval message.
Lets start the discussion period.
Going through the bug reports, it seems that you have a keen eye and don't let bugs go unnoticed.
That said, I am a little bothered by the amount of packages you do maintain currently in the aur which is only 6.
Since you do have such a small amount of packages, I will ask, what are your goals after you become a TU?
In my opinion the number of packages that he maintains in AUR is irrelevant. He has skills and the goals are in "What packages am I interested in?" section . -- Ionuț
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Ionuț Bîru <ibiru@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 08/17/2010 03:24 PM, Thomas Dziedzic wrote:
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Ionuț Bîru<ibiru@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 08/17/2010 05:44 AM, Jonathan Conder wrote:
Hi everyone,
I would like to apply to become a Trusted User. Ionuț/wonder has kindly agreed to sponsor me.
This is my approval message.
Lets start the discussion period.
Going through the bug reports, it seems that you have a keen eye and don't let bugs go unnoticed.
That said, I am a little bothered by the amount of packages you do maintain currently in the aur which is only 6.
Since you do have such a small amount of packages, I will ask, what are your goals after you become a TU?
In my opinion the number of packages that he maintains in AUR is irrelevant.
He has skills and the goals are in "What packages am I interested in?" section .
I'm looking for a more definitive list because I'm curious. "a lot of GNOME desktop applications, a few games, and various multimedia programs or libraries." doesn't really give me anything I can look at.
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 07:24 -0500, Thomas Dziedzic wrote:
Going through the bug reports, it seems that you have a keen eye and don't let bugs go unnoticed.
Thanks :)
That said, I am a little bothered by the amount of packages you do maintain currently in the aur which is only 6.
Since you do have such a small amount of packages, I will ask, what are your goals after you become a TU?
Fair enough. The main reason I maintain only those packages is that everything else I use from the AUR already has a maintainer. Becoming a TU would presumably allow me to adopt other people's packages and put them in community. Also, MythTV + plugins makes up 12 packages already. Anyway, I just saw your second email. With that vague list I wasn't talking about the AUR, but rather packages that could be adopted within the repos, like MythTV is at the moment. I'm not really sure what those are exactly (or if there are any), hence the lack of specifics. Here is a longer list of AUR packages that I could possibly pick up: bin32-skype (if policy allows) desmume fbsplash fbsplash-extras fbsplash-theme-arch-black fbsplash-themes-arch-banner gap-math* gnome-colors-icon-theme gnome-packagekit gummi lightning mediatomb[-svn] myththeme-blue-abstract* nautilus-makepkg* nspluginwrapper-debian nspluginwrapper-flash packagekit pacman-glib python-poppler I've starred the ones that aren't that popular, but are interesting to me personally. Also, I'm not ready to release PackageKit-related stuff quite yet, but I would hope that it would be reasonably popular when I make a proper announcement. Jonathan P.S. Thanks Allan
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Jonathan Conder <j@skurvy.no-ip.org> wrote:
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 07:24 -0500, Thomas Dziedzic wrote:
Going through the bug reports, it seems that you have a keen eye and don't let bugs go unnoticed.
Thanks :)
That said, I am a little bothered by the amount of packages you do maintain currently in the aur which is only 6.
Since you do have such a small amount of packages, I will ask, what are your goals after you become a TU?
Fair enough. The main reason I maintain only those packages is that everything else I use from the AUR already has a maintainer. Becoming a TU would presumably allow me to adopt other people's packages and put them in community. Also, MythTV + plugins makes up 12 packages already.
Anyway, I just saw your second email. With that vague list I wasn't talking about the AUR, but rather packages that could be adopted within the repos, like MythTV is at the moment. I'm not really sure what those are exactly (or if there are any), hence the lack of specifics.
Here is a longer list of AUR packages that I could possibly pick up:
bin32-skype (if policy allows) desmume fbsplash fbsplash-extras fbsplash-theme-arch-black fbsplash-themes-arch-banner gap-math* gnome-colors-icon-theme gnome-packagekit gummi lightning mediatomb[-svn] myththeme-blue-abstract* nautilus-makepkg* nspluginwrapper-debian nspluginwrapper-flash packagekit pacman-glib python-poppler
I've starred the ones that aren't that popular, but are interesting to me personally. Also, I'm not ready to release PackageKit-related stuff quite yet, but I would hope that it would be reasonably popular when I make a proper announcement.
Jonathan
P.S. Thanks Allan
Thanks. +1 from me
On 08/17/2010 05:09 PM, Jonathan Conder wrote:
Here is a longer list of AUR packages that I could possibly pick up:
bin32-skype (if policy allows)
i don't see any reason not to. Is not in repos because nobody want it to maintain.
packagekit pacman-glib
is this usable? last time i used gnome-packagekit + packagekit it had only problems. Most annoying was i could install any packages without asking me any credentials -- Ionuț
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 22:36 +0300, Ionuț Bîru wrote:
On 08/17/2010 05:09 PM, Jonathan Conder wrote:
Here is a longer list of AUR packages that I could possibly pick up:
bin32-skype (if policy allows)
i don't see any reason not to. Is not in repos because nobody want it to maintain.
Ok, I just wasn't sure about the rules for 32-bit packages.
packagekit pacman-glib
is this usable? last time i used gnome-packagekit + packagekit it had only problems. Most annoying was i could install any packages without asking me any credentials
I've added a lot of functionality since then, but there are still a couple of occasional bugs that need sorting (actually these are in gnome-packagekit and libalpm), and I won't move it to community until they are fixed. Try it out if you want: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35019 http://github.com/PirateJonno/pacman-glib/tree/master/pk-backend Jonathan
On 17/08/10 12:44, Jonathan Conder wrote:
Hi everyone,
I would like to apply to become a Trusted User. Ionuț/wonder has kindly agreed to sponsor me. Anyway, here is some info about me:
My vote does not count in TU land anymore but I strongly recommended Jonathan apply for a TU position, so obviously he has my full support. Allan
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Jonathan Conder <j@skurvy.no-ip.org> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I would like to apply to become a Trusted User. Ionuț/wonder has kindly agreed to sponsor me. Anyway, here is some info about me:
<snip> I reviewed a couple of links that you gave us and seems that you know about bug hunting, and if Allan and Ionut supports you, I don't have any doubt that you're qualified. Good luck anyway! -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Developer / Trusted User Linux Counter: #359909 http://www.angvp.com
Le mardi 17 août 2010 04:44:58, Jonathan Conder a écrit :
Hi everyone,
I would like to apply to become a Trusted User. Ionuț/wonder has kindly agreed to sponsor me. Anyway, here is some info about me:
Who am I? My name is Jonathan Conder, from Auckland, New Zealand. I'm currently a full-time student studying Maths and Computer Science (among other things). I've been using Linux since early 2008, after a bit of distro-hopping I moved to Arch, and was very impressed by the wiki and the degree of control I gained over my system. My forum username is PirateJonno, maybe some of you have seen me around.
Why do I want to be a TU? Well, Arch has been my distribution of choice for several years now, and I would like to give something back to the community. I hope that this position will enable me to move some popular AUR packages to community.
What packages am I interested in? Firstly, I would like to adopt MythTV (and related packages) since they seem to have no current maintainer. This would involve moving them out of extra and into community of course. If the need arises, I would also be willing to maintain anything I have installed, which boils down to a lot of GNOME desktop applications, a few games, and various multimedia programs or libraries.
Other packages I would be interested in bringing to community are: fbsplash (along with a few themes) gnome-colors-icon-theme mediatomb (possibly with a few patches) nspluginwrapper-flash (if this presents no ideological issues)
Also, I have a few projects of my own that could be added in future, namely PackageKit and nautilus-makepkg. See my AUR/GitHub pages at: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=PirateJonno http://github.com/PirateJonno
Can I do the job? I think I have enough experience packaging for Arch to become a TU. Although I don't maintain many AUR packages, I would do if the need arose. I often modify others' packages to change the configure flags, add a custom patch, enable debugging symbols, etc. My work on PackageKit has made me very familiar with the packaging system itself. I am also a reasonably experienced C/C++ programmer, which means I am usually pretty good at tracking down bugs. My ability to find bugs in unfamiliar code is also improving. For example, here are some I have reported/fixed: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?email1=j% 40skurvy.no-ip.org&emailtype1=exact&emailreporter1=1 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?email1=j% 40skurvy.no-ip.org&emailtype1=exact&emailreporter1=1 http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?status[]&opened=PirateJonno
Thanks for your time, Jonathan
Just dig a little bit, and in one word: WOW ! :-)
He gets a +1 from me on bug hunting alone... Me and Ionut could use the help! :P On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Laurent Carlier <lordheavym@gmail.com>wrote:
Le mardi 17 août 2010 04:44:58, Jonathan Conder a écrit :
Hi everyone,
I would like to apply to become a Trusted User. Ionuț/wonder has kindly agreed to sponsor me. Anyway, here is some info about me:
Who am I? My name is Jonathan Conder, from Auckland, New Zealand. I'm currently a full-time student studying Maths and Computer Science (among other things). I've been using Linux since early 2008, after a bit of distro-hopping I moved to Arch, and was very impressed by the wiki and the degree of control I gained over my system. My forum username is PirateJonno, maybe some of you have seen me around.
Why do I want to be a TU? Well, Arch has been my distribution of choice for several years now, and I would like to give something back to the community. I hope that this position will enable me to move some popular AUR packages to community.
What packages am I interested in? Firstly, I would like to adopt MythTV (and related packages) since they seem to have no current maintainer. This would involve moving them out of extra and into community of course. If the need arises, I would also be willing to maintain anything I have installed, which boils down to a lot of GNOME desktop applications, a few games, and various multimedia programs or libraries.
Other packages I would be interested in bringing to community are: fbsplash (along with a few themes) gnome-colors-icon-theme mediatomb (possibly with a few patches) nspluginwrapper-flash (if this presents no ideological issues)
Also, I have a few projects of my own that could be added in future, namely PackageKit and nautilus-makepkg. See my AUR/GitHub pages at: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=PirateJonno http://github.com/PirateJonno
Can I do the job? I think I have enough experience packaging for Arch to become a TU. Although I don't maintain many AUR packages, I would do if the need arose. I often modify others' packages to change the configure flags, add a custom patch, enable debugging symbols, etc. My work on PackageKit has made me very familiar with the packaging system itself. I am also a reasonably experienced C/C++ programmer, which means I am usually pretty good at tracking down bugs. My ability to find bugs in unfamiliar code is also improving. For example, here are some I have reported/fixed: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?email1=j% 40skurvy.no-ip.org&emailtype1=exact&emailreporter1=1 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?email1=j% 40skurvy.no-ip.org&emailtype1=exact&emailreporter1=1 http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?status[]&opened=PirateJonno
Thanks for your time, Jonathan
Just dig a little bit, and in one word: WOW !
:-)
participants (7)
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Allan McRae
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Angel Velásquez
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Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227)
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Ionuț Bîru
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Jonathan Conder
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Laurent Carlier
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Thomas Dziedzic