[aur-general] Trusted User Application

[Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227)]

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 at 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 !
>
> :-)
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