On 04/19/10 at 08:20am, Jan Steffens wrote:

Greetings,

My name is Jan Alexander Steffens and I'm a 22 year old CS student living in Karlsruhe, Germany.

I've been introduced to Linux in high school, where the administration team (which mainly consisted of students) were avid supporters of free software.

Since then, I went through quite a few distributions: SuSE, Mandrake, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian. Gentoo was the first distribution that got me interested in getting to know the internals a bit more. About a year ago, a fellow CS student introduced me to Arch. After I blew up my Fedora installation (accidentally wrote to /dev/root), I chose to give Arch a try. I got hooked. Its simplicity really makes it a joy to tinker with. :) Especially creating packages and offering them to others (AUR) is something Arch made easy.

I currently run two Arch systems, one on my laptop and one on a headless box mainly acting as a router. Both are getting packages from [testing].

Arch is the first distribution I actually started contributing back to. I began frequenting the Archlinux channels on Freenode, now and then helping out others and asking my own questions. I reported bugs I found, and I uploaded and maintain 15 packages in the AUR [1].

I use Pulseaudio on my laptop: Some of my packages in the AUR center on it, and I gave the wiki page on Pulseaudio an overhaul. I'm interested in taking over maintenance of the pulseaudio packages in [community] and improve Pulseaudio on Arch Linux.

A few days ago, I finally got up the nerve to write about my gripes with the gvim package and propose a solution [2]. I was overwhelmed with the positive response. Now Dan Griffiths approached me and offered to sponsor my application as a TU. Thank you, Dan.

I hope I'm getting accepted as TU and we can work together on improving this great distribution. :-)

Regards, Jan "heftig" Steffens

1: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=heftig 2: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19087

I'm happy to sponser Jan in his efforts to become a Trusted User! He has repeatedly shown an aptitude for helping users in IRC, and while he currently maintains only a few packages in AUR, those he does maintain are impeccable. He has expressed interest in maintaining the PulseAudio packages in [community] and given our recent losses, I would be happy to hand them off to him. As an active PA user, he is certainly better suited than I to maintain them. His work on the recently updated vim/gvim package greatly increases the efficency and quality of what is traditionally one of our more difficult packages. I believe he would be an asset to the team! Let us begin the discussion period! --

Excerpts from Jan Steffens's message of 2010-04-19 08:20:53 +0200:

Greetings,

My name is Jan Alexander Steffens and I'm a 22 year old CS student living in Karlsruhe, Germany.

I've been introduced to Linux in high school, where the administration team (which mainly consisted of students) were avid supporters of free software.

Since then, I went through quite a few distributions: SuSE, Mandrake, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian. Gentoo was the first distribution that got me interested in getting to know the internals a bit more. About a year ago, a fellow CS student introduced me to Arch. After I blew up my Fedora installation (accidentally wrote to /dev/root), I chose to give Arch a try. I got hooked. Its simplicity really makes it a joy to tinker with. :) Especially creating packages and offering them to others (AUR) is something Arch made easy.

I currently run two Arch systems, one on my laptop and one on a headless box mainly acting as a router. Both are getting packages from [testing].

Arch is the first distribution I actually started contributing back to. I began frequenting the Archlinux channels on Freenode, now and then helping out others and asking my own questions. I reported bugs I found, and I uploaded and maintain 15 packages in the AUR [1].

I use Pulseaudio on my laptop: Some of my packages in the AUR center on it, and I gave the wiki page on Pulseaudio an overhaul. I'm interested in taking over maintenance of the pulseaudio packages in [community] and improve Pulseaudio on Arch Linux.

A few days ago, I finally got up the nerve to write about my gripes with the gvim package and propose a solution [2]. I was overwhelmed with the positive response. Now Dan Griffiths approached me and offered to sponsor my application as a TU. Thank you, Dan.

I hope I'm getting accepted as TU and we can work together on improving this great distribution. :-)

Regards, Jan "heftig" Steffens

1: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=heftig 2: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19087

Good luck! Taking on the PA challenge is quite something. Regards, Philipp

On 04/19/2010 09:20 AM, Jan Steffens wrote:

Greetings,

hey

I hope I'm getting accepted as TU and we can work together on improving this great distribution. :-)

i was thinking that nobody wants to contribute to the community since 5 months passed without any applications. Good luck! -- Ionut

On 19 April 2010 14:20, Jan Steffens wrote:

I use Pulseaudio on my laptop: Some of my packages in the AUR center on it, and I gave the wiki page on Pulseaudio an overhaul. I'm interested in taking over maintenance of the pulseaudio packages in [community] and improve Pulseaudio on Arch Linux.

Like the rest before me, kudos to you for stepping up to handle this one :)

A few days ago, I finally got up the nerve to write about my gripes with the gvim package and propose a solution [2]. I was overwhelmed with the positive response. Now Dan Griffiths approached me and offered to sponsor my application as a TU. Thank you, Dan.

I hope I'm getting accepted as TU and we can work together on improving this great distribution. :-)

At first I was skeptical about your packaging as I didn't know for how long you were using Arch, but then I saw your nickname. I know that nickname! I've seen you help on IRC and now I've gone through some of your popular PKGBUILDs - you'll do good to the team. Good luck! -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD

On 04/19/10 at 08:20am, Jan Steffens wrote:

Greetings,

My name is Jan Alexander Steffens and I'm a 22 year old CS student living in Karlsruhe, Germany.

I've been introduced to Linux in high school, where the administration team (which mainly consisted of students) were avid supporters of free software.

Since then, I went through quite a few distributions: SuSE, Mandrake, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian. Gentoo was the first distribution that got me interested in getting to know the internals a bit more. About a year ago, a fellow CS student introduced me to Arch. After I blew up my Fedora installation (accidentally wrote to /dev/root), I chose to give Arch a try. I got hooked. Its simplicity really makes it a joy to tinker with. :) Especially creating packages and offering them to others (AUR) is something Arch made easy.

I currently run two Arch systems, one on my laptop and one on a headless box mainly acting as a router. Both are getting packages from [testing].

Arch is the first distribution I actually started contributing back to. I began frequenting the Archlinux channels on Freenode, now and then helping out others and asking my own questions. I reported bugs I found, and I uploaded and maintain 15 packages in the AUR [1].

I use Pulseaudio on my laptop: Some of my packages in the AUR center on it, and I gave the wiki page on Pulseaudio an overhaul. I'm interested in taking over maintenance of the pulseaudio packages in [community] and improve Pulseaudio on Arch Linux.

A few days ago, I finally got up the nerve to write about my gripes with the gvim package and propose a solution [2]. I was overwhelmed with the positive response. Now Dan Griffiths approached me and offered to sponsor my application as a TU. Thank you, Dan.

I hope I'm getting accepted as TU and we can work together on improving this great distribution. :-)

Regards, Jan "heftig" Steffens

1: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=heftig 2: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19087

Alright everyone, the discussion period for the appointment of Jan as a Trusted User has ended. The seven days of voting begins now! Please cast your votes at http://aur.archlinux.org/tu.php?id=27 Good luck Jan! --