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[aur-general] DestroyTwitter
by Nathan O 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

How long do I have to wait before a package would be concidered to be orphaned. I left a comment containing how the PKGBUILD should be done and the next day emailed the maintainer, and I have not a response yet. It has been roughly 3-4 days. The current PKGBUILD is really messy in my opinion and I linked to a much cleaner version and still uses $startdir. Thanks

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[aur-general] Orphanin request
by Dan Vratil 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi, please orphan package libmusicbrainz2. I emailed maintainer and he has no interest in maintaining it since he's no longer using Arch. Thanks! Dan URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18081 -- --------------------------------- Dan Vrátil vratil(a)progdansoft.com ICQ 249163429 Jabber progdan(a)jabber.cz Tel. +420 732 326 870 Tento email neobsahuje žádné viry, protože odesílatel nepoužívá Windows. / This email does not contain any viruses because the sender does not use Windows.

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[aur-general] GMdesk Delete Request
by Nathan O 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Can somebody delete GMdesk at http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28388The application crashes, and nor will a previous version run either. Thanks

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[aur-general] TU application
by Florian Pritz 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

Hi, I've been asked a few times to apply as a TU and finally decided to do so ;). My name is Florian Pritz, I'm from Austria, 18 years old and I've been using Arch for something like 2 years and a few weeks. Before that I've sometimes tried OpenSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu and Gentoo, but after a few hours/days switched back to Windows. Currently I have 5 boxes running arch, 1 (desktop) testing, 3 servers (2 at home), 1 laptop (my father's). I'm mainly active in #archlinux.de, but also sometimes helping out on bugday. I'm a quite experienced PHP and shell programmer and some time ago I started with perl, which is really cool thanks to CPAN and bauerbill. My C and python skills are somewhat basic, but enough to find and fix some bugs. Currently I have 27 packages in the AUR [1], some even having > 40 votes and I'd like to bring those to community. Quite a lot of them still have "|| return 1", but I'm removing those whenever there are updates available. One of my servers is used for webhosting, myqsl, mail and a few shell accounts and I'd like to help update some of the software that's running on this box (most of it is from extra though :( ). Sometimes I'm rebuilding stuff like mysql, php, dovecot or postfix because of security advisories, but most of the time the you guys are faster. A small side project of mine is a pastebin/file upload service [2] written in PHP, using pygments for highlighting and memcached to reduce the load. [3] Thorsten Töpper asked me to become a TU and also wants to sponsor me. Thanks. If you want to know more, please ask. I'm not a good story writer ;) [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=bluewind [2] http://paste.xinu.at [3] http://git.server-speed.net/users/flo/filebin -- Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}@server-speed.net

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[aur-general] Trusted User Application
by Brad Fanella 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

Hello everybody, In response to this (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103250) thread, I (and a few others) have decided that it would be a good idea to have a stream of new TUs to maintain packages that they actually use themselves, which in theory would lessen the gap between upstream and package releases. I guess I should tell you a little about myself and what I do/have done. My name is Brad Fanella and I am from Chicago, Illinois within the United States of America. I am a software developer, web designer, and [no]monkey[/no]. My forum username is itsbrad212 (I doubt anyone cares) and I have a little over 1,200 posts currently. I have been an Arch user since around December 2009 and a Linux user since late 2008. Before I had found Arch, distro hopping was a normal happening and I tended to do a lot of it. >From Ubuntu to Slackware to Debian to Gentoo, none of them every pleased me...until I found Arch. The combination of a simplistic, fast, rolling-release distribution with a great community and team of developers is what keeps me here, and I will definitely be staying for many years to come (if I ever leave at all). My talents? Well, when I first discovered that computers were for more than what happens when you click the Internet icon, the first thing that peaked my interest was web design, so I learned HTML, CSS, and (shortly later) PHP. A couple of months after that, I found another programmer and together we created a content management system (Surf-CMS) that we are currently managing to this day. Of course, how could you be called an "advanced" Linux user without knowing C and shell scripting? Well, I first learned about shell scripting when there were some tasks I needed to be done and I wanted to automate that process. C, on the other hand, was learned for two (maybe three) reasons: 1) Linux and C go together 2) I like speed 3) I wanted to be 1337 Kdding about the last one. Anyway, within the past few weeks, I have been developing a AUR+Pacman (and maybe ABS in the future?) wrapper in C. I thought C would be a good candidate because it's *fast*, and even with more than 500 lines of code, it still fetches, untars, and resolves dependencies in a split second. It is currently incomplete, but I plan to release it under the "Community Contributions" section in the near future. I also know Python and Assembly, but nobody really cares about Assembly anymore, so it's not really worth mentioning. I learned it because I have beens steadily developing a bootloader and kernel in pure 32-bit assembly (along with a few other developers) called LitaOS. Unfortunately, I don't work on it that often (maybe a couple hours a week, if that). What can I bring to the table? Well, as I said before, I use C for pretty much everything, so I do use a good amount of C libraries, so I guess you could say that. I also compile a couple of Python modules here and there. The main reason I wanted to become a TU is because I wanted to help improve the quality of both packages that I use personally and packages that others ask for, as well as help users on the AUR to bring their PKGBUILDs to a near perfected state. Arch deserves to be the very best, and I want to help get it there. Now, about my AUR package count. Allan even said it himself, and I quote: "@itsbrad212: You only have a few packages in the AUR but they look good. I'd say apply if you want..." I was actually a little hesitant about applying to become a trusted user, only because my AUR package count was so low. That being said, I actually have a fairly proficient knowledge of writing PKGBUILDs, building packages, using namcap, etc. For a short time, I was actually hosting a small repository of compiled packages from the AUR (that were either common or I used them myself) for a little linux discussion group on an IRC chat room. I actually am not still hosting those packages or maintaining them anymore as I wasn't getting enough of a response to make it worthwhile. I just recently got a list from a forum user of suggest packages that I should adopt in the AUR and keep up-to-date, so I plan on doing that. Chris Brannon has been kind enough to sponsor me, on behalf of Allan, through this process. I know I said it before, but I'll say it again. My goals are not to maintain 100,000 packages or something silly like that, but to improve other packages, submit clean and working packages myself, and help others on the AUR to improve their packages. Kind regards, Brad

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Re: [aur-general] TU application
by atsutane＠freethoughts.de 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:42:50 +0200 Florian Pritz <bluewind(a)server-speed.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been asked a few times to apply as a TU and finally decided to do > so ;). > ...*snip*... > > Thorsten Töpper asked me to become a TU and also wants to sponsor me. > Thanks. > > If you want to know more, please ask. I'm not a good story writer ;) > > > [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=bluewind > [2] http://paste.xinu.at > [3] http://git.server-speed.net/users/flo/filebin > I happily confirm to sponsor him so: Let the discussion period begin! -- Jabber: atsutane(a)freethoughts.de Blog: http://atsutane.freethoughts.de/ Key: 295AFBF4 FP: 39F8 80E5 0E49 A4D1 1341 E8F9 39E4 F17F 295A FBF4

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[aur-general] TU application / Searching a sponsor
by Adam Hani Schakaki 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

Hello, I am Adam Hani Schakaki from south-west Germany and I think that this would be the right time to apply or rather to find a sponsor. I hope that there is no age restriction for becoming a TU because I am only 16 years old. Anyway, I got my first Mandriva Linux CD 7 years ago, after that I was using several distributions like Fedora, openSuSE, Ubuntu, Debian. I also tried Gentoo, but most of the time I used Ubuntu for desktops and Debian for servers. But around the beginning of this year I found the great ArchLinux and I loved it. I was/am programming a lot homepage related things in PHP and I also got pretty good programming skills in Java and surely bash. Currently, beside school, I am involved in a project ordered by a school for pupils and companies that every pupil can easily find a job training and the teachers can supervise it. It looks like I will finish school in two years and after that I want to study Software Engineering in London. I am maintaining 103 packages in the AUR, most of them are go-openoffice language packs. But those language packs are all outdated because at the moment I am providing binary version in my repository unless anyone requests a source version for the AUR. One of my goals would be to bring those language pack to the community repo, since there are already openoffice, go-openoffice and openoffice language packs, but no go-openoffice language packs. But the primary goal will ever be to improve ArchLinux and I want to help as much as I can. I hope that I did not forget anything and I would be proud if I found a sponsor. Adam Hani Schakaki

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[aur-general] Package deletion
by Yura Siamashka 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hi Please delete: geanydoc, geanyprj, geanyvc These plugins are part of community/geany-plugins -- Yura Siamashka <yurand2(a)gmail.com>

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[aur-general] Package deletion
by Adam Hani Schakaki 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hello, please delete the following packages from the AUR. go-openoffice-da-lang [1]: Replaced by go-openoffice-da. go-openoffice-hu-lang [2]: Replaced by go-openoffice-hu. go-openoffice-zh_tw [3]: Replaced by go-openoffice-zh-tw. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35716 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35731 [3] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26189 Thanks Adam Hani Schakaki

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[aur-general] TU request?
by Brad Fanella 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

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

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