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[aur-general] TU Vote: Abhishek Dasgupta (abhidg)
by Varun Acharya 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Hi TU's, Following the discussion period for Abhishek, (abhidg), now starts the 7 day voting period. Please lets avoid past issues of being unable to reach quorum. Abhishek's introduction is here http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2007-December/006473.html Obviously a +1 from me, since I was the sponsor. Varun

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[aur-general] TU Application - Allan McRae
by Allan McRae 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hello, I'm Allan McRae and go by the imaginative username "Allan" on the AUR, forums and bug tracker. I maintain around 25 packages in the AUR (although around half of these are perl-modules) and have had a package moved to community (sunbird). If you elect me to be a TU, I will initially move several of my packages (xmltv + dependencies, desemume, colordiff) to community as well as a couple of other popular packages I use often that are fairly popular (jabref, possibly notecase). I am currently unable to build x86_64 packages as my 64bit desktop has been dead for the last three months (from a power surge I think) and I have given up on fixing it but will probably buy a new one in the coming months. I have been using Linux since Red Hat 8.0 was released (late 2002?). I shuffled from Fedora to Ubuntu to Debian before building a Linux From Scratch system. I discovered Arch when I was looking at finding a package manager to use in LFS and installed it "temporarily" to build my new LFS system. That was about a year and a half ago... I now have Arch installed on two servers, a (broken) desktop and a laptop. As an Arch user, I am fairly active on the forums and like to go bug squashing occasionally. I have also contributed a couple of patches to pacman. I have written a script for maintaining R libraries but I think no-one but me actually uses it. A bit about me personally. I am 27 years old, a New Zealander currently living in Brisbane, Australia. I work as a statistical geneticist for a large medical research institute. Apart from computers, my major hobbies include martial arts and watching anime. I have Roman lined up to sponsor me. Cheers, Allan

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[aur-general] AUR CVS access and more
by Ronald van Haren 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

After I did send the output of htpasswd -n to simo, I was reading in the arch-dev mailing list, and it appears he is on a vacation untill the 14th of January. Is there someone else who can give me (and probably also Timm (?)) access to AUR cvs now he is away, and also can someone update my AUR account ? Also Eric is set as inactive, so my forum account will not be updated in a while (though this is not a major issue I guess). thank you :)

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[aur-general] Applying to become TU.
by Mateusz Herych 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Hello. I`am Mateusz Herych, from Poland. I`am 17 years old and I started with Linux 3 years ago (with Arch 2 years ago). I registrered in AUR in December 2006, partition is my login there. One of my packages has been moved to [community] repo (skype-staticqt). Now I`am maintainer of 15 PKGBUILDs there. Most of them I using by myself. I have some knowledge with C, C++, PHP and bash. I have experience with other project (SCXD - http://scxd.info) where I was a developer. My English is average (I have few gramatical problems, but I understand all). Why I want to become Trusted User? Currently I`ve installed Arch on more than 20 machines (many of them are at my school, unfortunately all of them are x86 :( ). I want to give something to this distribution. When I become TU I will move many of my packages to [community] repo, but I will adopt some packages like ircii-pana or idesk. Yes, I know that there are no new versions of them, but many people are using it yet. I`am trying to help other people on IRC (mostly on Polish channels and networks, but I talking on #archlinux@FreeNode too. My nick is Part` there.). I translated some news from http://archlinux.org to http://archlinux.pl. I promote Arch Linux in my community. So, I`am looking for someone want be my sponsor. Feel free to ask, if you want. Regards, Mateusz.

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[aur-general] Resignation from TU group
by Eric Belanger 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

Hi everyone, I have decided to resign from the TU team because I have no longer the interest and time for TU specific duties like safe-flagging and the voting processs for TU candidates. Several of my packages in community/unsupported are available if someone else is interested in them: adesklet-yab buoh fish listen ltris musepack-tools plib pydilbert (unsupported) python-musicbrainz2 realplayer (unsupported) xarchive I'll keep them if no one else is interested in them. As for the rest of my packages, they'll be moved to extra or remain in community/unsupported where I'll continue maintaining them. I also would like to reduce my involvement with the community64 repo. I'll start another thread with more details upon that. Regards, Eric -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[aur-general] Can a fresh TU sponsor requests [was:Applying to become TU]
by Ronald van Haren 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Let's start a new thread about this: On Jan 7, 2008 2:59 PM, JJDaNiMoTh <jjdanimoth(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 16:17:06 +0100 > "Ronald van Haren" <pressh(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Okay, I will sponsor Mateusz. This will start a five day discussion > period. > > I'm not again request of Mateusz (and your sponsorship).. but I want to > post this question: Can a fresh (very very fresh :D) TU sponsors > requests? I think yes, I don't read anything in bylaws. But.. is it > right? Because, I'm sure about the great work that you and Mateusz (if > he will be accepted as a TU) will done, but how about a 'testing > period'? I'm sure that all of us doesn't born learned ( uhm, english > language doesn't give the idea that italian does :P ) and that new TUs > need time to learn all TUs functions, starting from bugtracker to all > small thing never written but that we daily use. > > All that I've written is in my honest opinion, and it is a comment > about the _future_ and not for present. > > > -- > JJDaNiMoTh - ArchLinux Trusted User > I respect your opinion. I invite everyone to give his opinion on this and have an open minded discussion. My 2 cents: I certainly think it should be possible. In my opinion you are elected as a TU, and not a TU trainee. See it in this way. If you get a new job it is also possible for you to propose changes. At your proposals should be looked upon in greater care (however it is always important to look at it with care), but you are allowed to propose things. That is what in my opinion is exactly what should happen. We have a voting mechanism, every TU is allowed to vote (actually I think you should vote) yes, no, or abstain. So if you think someone should not make a good new TU, you should vote NO. It is that easy. Like you say, you learn by doing things. Sponsoring someone is also doing something.

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[aur-general] VOTE: Timm Preetz (gummibaerchen)
by Bjørn Lindeijer 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Sorry for the delay, I forgot to start this last Friday and I still don't have internet at home. I introduced Timm as a candidate here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2007-December/006351.html Timm added some more about himself here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2007-December/006359.html Now let's vote! (TUs only of course) You've got one week. My vote: YES Bjørn

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[aur-general] Searching for a 32bit builder
by Timm Preetz 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

Hello, as I currently just have (easy) access to a 64bit machine I would like to find someone who could build my community packages. In reverse I would of course update his packages for 64bit. Currently I only have "avant-window-navigator" in community, and don't expect a much higher load of packages the next time, as I mainly build packages for 64bit at the moment. Regards, Timm

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[aur-general] Clean up old Java 'GNOME' Bindings
by Timm Preetz 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

Hi, while compiling packages for x86_64 I came across two java-packages, that seem obsolete to me. I think they could be replaced by 'java-gnome' (which I maintain in AUR, could be moved to community). The packages are the following: glib-java (provided by java-gnome) cairo-java (not yet provided by java-gnome, requires glib-java) I think other (for example old gtk-java) were already deleted. So should these packages stay in community (cairo-java has only two votes), or should they be replaced by java-gnome? Regards, Timm

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[aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Inactive for unspecified period of time
by Roman Kyrylych 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

Hi all! I have <1 minute to write this email, so I'll be quick. I'm very sorry about my disappearance. My connection at job got down during Bug Day this Saturday and I got cable breakage somewhere on my street so I got no Internet at home as well. :-( The worst thing is that I am unable to follow Arch development until New Year (at least) because I've changed my job this Monday, and I don't even have a PC there yet (but I should in near future). Today is the first day I've got internet for a hour or so (I'm sitting at my ex-job now). If someone could update my packages in Extra/Community and keep an eye on bugtracker - that would be awesome and very appreciated. Bye all and Merry Christmas! -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[aur-general] Resigning as TU
by Leslie P. Polzer 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

Hello folks, I hereby resign from my TU position. In the long run it makes more sense this way, I guess. It's been nice working with you. :) Leslie (dejari) -- My personal blog: http://blog.viridian-project.de/

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[aur-general] State of community64
by Eric Belanger 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

Hi, I would to bring to your attention the current state of the x86_64 community repo. There are currently over 100 x86_64 packages out-of-date compared to the i686 ones (http://dev.archlinux.org/~andyrtr/pkg_diff.html) . Out of curiosity, how many TUs with a x86_64 machine are active? More precisely, are you checking the package diff list on a more or less daily basis to keep the two repo in sync? I have the impression that I was pretty much the only one doing that in the last few months. To help keeping the x86_64 repo in sync, I would recommend any TU without an x86_64 machine to ask Aaron for access on his x86_64 build machine. I'm not sure to what degree the packages can be tested on the build machine but several devs and TU are already using it. Nonetheless, if the build machine would be used, at the very least, for arch-independent packages (e.g. i18n, docs pkg), perl and python modules and non-critical packages (e.g. games, xfce-svn plugin, etc) that would reduce the workload for the x86_64 TUs. I don't mind helping out with the occasional x86_64 build or with problems/bugs only on x86_64. But would like to reduce that to a minimum as it's quite time-consuming. Eric -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[aur-general] sage in AUR
by Husmann, Stefan 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

Hello, since the package sage has not been updated since v.0.1.2, is orphaned for some time now and does not compile anyway, and nobody complained about that, I think this package is not needed. I want to delete it next Friday. Though it is technically possible for a non-TU like me to adopt and delete it I want to ask the list members if this would be the usual way. The deletion would lead to the benefitial situation that the great package sage-mathematics could be renamed. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Stefan Husmann T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH AL S&F, GO DPWN, AC Express Hannover Stefan Husmann Projekt NewSourcing, Frame CSS Hausadresse: Brüderstr. 5, 30159 Hannover Telefon: +49 (511) 47 39 09 - 623 Telefax: +49 (511) 47 39 09 - 501 PC-Fax: +49 (431) 38 02 46 70 E-Mail: Stefan.Husmann(a)t-systems.com Internet: http://www.t-systems.com T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH Aufsichtsrat: René Obermann (Vorsitzender) Executive Committee: Reinhard Clemens (Vorsitzender)*, Helmut Binder, Albert Henn, Olaf Heyden*, Katrin Horstmann, Ulrich Kemp, Wilfried Peters*, Dr. Herbert Schaaff*, Zvezdana Seeger* Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main HRB 55933 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Frankfurt am Main WEEE-Reg.-Nr. DE87523644 *Geschäftsführer gem. § 35 GmbHG

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[aur-general] bacula package
by kalos＠autistici.org 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

hola! I packaged the latest version of Bacula, so I wish to publish it, but there's already an older package in AUR that I can't replace. Could you help me? thanks

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[aur-general] maintaining orphaned packages
by Chess Griffin 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Hi there- I've been using Arch Linux for many years now, and I have done some packaging for other distros. I maintain a few slackbuild scripts for Slackware at Slackbuilds.org, one small package in the Debian tree, and currently maintain two ports in the FreeBSD ports tree. I also contribute documentation patches to FreeBSD. I'm a huge supporter of Arch and have really enjoyed using it all this time, so I thought I'd like to start contributing to its package maintenance. I have an x86_64 machine, so can probably help with packages for both x86_64 and i686. My question is about unsupported packages in AUR. Can I go ahead and adopt some or is there some approval process first? I don't have any specifically in mind at the moment, but from time to time I've come across orphaned packages that I use and thought about adopting them. Ok, 'nuff ramblin' from me. Chess -- Chess Griffin GPG Public Key: 0x0C7558C3 http://www.chessgriffin.com

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[aur-general] Applying to become a TU
by Abhishek Dasgupta 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

Hello, I'm Abhishek Dasgupta, from India and right now, I'm doing a Masters in Science (we'll be choosing our majors in the fifth semester). I've been using computers for a long time, and I know a bit of python, shell scripting and of course C, C++. I think that Arch does not have a significant presence in the scientific community. I wish to make Arch a viable choice for a scientist to use, by maintaining more popular scientific packages in [community], in addition to other packages. I've maintained one or two pages in the Wiki (not much :) ), and these are the packages I've in AUR right now (my username is abhidg in the AUR and the forums): ariadne bbpager blueman btsco ghemical libghemical liboglappth lightspeed num-utils pandoc weather xfce4-time-out-plugin Most of these I use myself, or have packaged because it could be useful to others. My introduction is now over, and I'm looking for someone to sponsor me (if any). If you have any questions, please do ask them. -- Abhishek Dasgupta http://abhidg.mine.nu http://abhidg.wordpress.com

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[aur-general] VOTE: Removal Of xterminus
by Callan Barrett 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

This is the vote for the removal of the Trusted User xterminus due to unexplained inactivity. Discussion period is over and everybody must vote and as per the bylaws this vote requires at least two thirds of us to vote in order to meet quorum. I vote: YES -- Callan 'wizzomafizzo' Barrett

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[aur-general] VOTE: pressh (Ronald van Haren)
by Roman Kyrylych 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

Hi! This message starts a voting period for pressh (Ronald van Haren). His introduction is here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2007-November/006260.html The discussion period was extremly quiet (0 messages!), I encourage you to be more active! (see previous threads for a reason). ;-) Now, let the voting begins! And for the first time in the history - I vote in the starting message (I always forgot before). :-P My vote is, obviously, Yes. You have 1 week to vote. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[aur-general] Functional Test - List rename
by Aaron Griffin 29 Dec '07

29 Dec '07

This is a test of the new list name. If you get this message, please respond, to verify. Thanks, Aaron

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[aur-general] resign as a TU
by Pierre Schmitz 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

Hi all, I have decided to resign from my position as a Trusted User. There are two reasons for this step: * The TU group should be independent. Being a TU and a developer at the same time might be a conflict. (attention: this is only my own opinion) * I don't have the time anymore to follow the aur-ml etc. as I should do. I just have too many unread messages ;-) Greetings and merry Christmas, Pierre -- http://www.archlinux.de

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[aur-general] REMOVAL: xterminus
by Callan Barrett 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

This is an email to propose the removal of the Trusted User xterminus (Charles Mauch), I feel this is required so the group of Trusted Users does not stagnate and he is the perfect candidate for putting the bylaws into effect. xterminus has been gone for what I believe is months without any sort of notification, he has not maintained any of his packages nor has he participated in any of the votes. This will begin the 3 day discussion period as written in the bylaws. I'll start: as much as don't like to do this to someone I knew as well as xterminus the fact is he has disappeared off the face of the earth, nobody knows where he's gone, nobody knows if he'll be back. He does not respond to email and he hasn't done anything as a TU in months, nobody has seen him on irc and his website seems to have long expired. I think his removal is the best thing to do. I know xterminus maintained a *lot* of packages in community, most of them being CPAN modules which, according to xterminus, had a whole set of special scripts he used to maintain them. I don't think it's a good idea to put them into unsupported and that they should be deleted from community altogether, any other packages he maintained that are left over should be taken on by whatever TU can handle them and then anything left should be put into unsupported. I'd like to hear anyone else's opinion on this. -- Callan 'wizzomafizzo' Barrett

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[aur-general] Enforcing TU Bylaws
by Callan Barrett 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

After seeing Roman's post in the pressh TU vote I think we need to start enforcing the bylaws based on inactivity now it has become a problem, last thread we only *just* got half of the TUs to vote in it. I have no problem with pressh becoming a TU anyway as I don't believe someone should miss out because of lazy TUs or TUs marked active who are actually inactive. To combat this I think we should put into effect the "Quorum" section of the bylaws or at least some form of it to keep the votes up properly. I've looked at the last three votes we had, the following people have not voted for a long time (I don't even know who two are?) and should really be put up for removal if they have no explanation of their absence: xterminus vegai dejari encelo I don't like to remove TUs but I believe this is required for us to keep any order and keep from a snowball effect of just gathering more and more TUs over time. If these people do not respond I think it's best we start the removal procedure on all of them (provided people start *VOTING*) at some point we can work out. I also need to mention, aside from these 4 people I think there are about a third of the TUs who MUST vote in the currently running thread (unless of course you already have) or else they'll also have to be added to that list. -- Callan 'wizzomafizzo' Barrett

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[aur-general] smf, sergej read this!
by Callan Barrett 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

sergej, will you please hurry up and adopt this package (smf) because I don't want it. It was taken out of community because it was ILLEGAL to package it without explicit permission from the author, which I'm assuming you never obtained. If you did receive permission from the author I want you to put it back into community with that license change in mind, if you didn't receive permission I still want you to adopt it and keep it in unsupported and please keep in mind how important licenses are for packages. -- Callan 'wizzomafizzo' Barrett

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[aur-general] Safe Flags In The AUR?
by Callan Barrett 18 Dec '07

18 Dec '07

Can we get an update on that patch? When does it actually get applied to the actual, real, running AUR? I think it's been *months* now and nothing has happened even when a patch was given in the same post as the proposal and the person proposing it _was the same person maintaining the AUR now._ Can we please finally get this applied, the sooner safe flags are dead and buried the better. -- Callan 'wizzomafizzo' Barrett

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[aur-general] Packages from extra with no maintainer
by Jordi Cerdan 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

Hi, What happens to the packages that are in community with no maintainer? Can someone adopt them or must we wait that the package goes to unsupported? (ex: pygoocanvas) I am new to the list and maybe this question is out of place. If this is the case, please excuse-me... Jordi

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