[aur-general] ArchLinux TU Application: Fabio Castelli (Muflone)

Tue Aug 5 10:46:07 EDT 2014

2014. 07. 31, csütörtök keltezéssel 05.25-kor Balló György ezt írta:
> 2014. 07. 31, csütörtök keltezéssel 01.06-kor Muflone ezt írta:
> > Hi everyone
> > 
> > My name's Fabio Castelli (aka Muflone) from Italy and I wish to apply to
> > become a TU for ArchLinux to maintain some packages in the community
> > repository. My TU sponsor is György Balló.
> > 
> > I actually work as a software developer in a local private company and I
> > use GNU/Linux since the 1998, having started with Slackware 2.0.
> > Many years have passed through Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu and finally
> > ArchLinux that actually I use daily at home and at my job place since a
> > couple of years. Debian is still often used for software packaging, to
> > deploy services in my network and for less experienced colleagues that
> > needs some GNU/Linux environment in my job place.
> > 
> > My experience in development is long term, starting in '80s with C=64
> > Basic, actually I work daily in Python (under Windows, GNU/Linux and
> > i5/OS, both desktop, server and web platforms), Delphi and VB (under
> > Windows), RPG/400 and CL (under i5/OS) and many other things which I use
> > less often, like C or J2EE.
> > 
> > My open source contributions are a really long list but let's try to not
> > be boring:
> > 
> > - maintainer for over 160 packages in the AUR, most of them updated often:
> > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=Muflone
> > https://github.com/muflone/pkgbuilds/
> > 
> > - maintainer for some Debian packages:
> > https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=muflone@vbsimple.net
> > https://alioth.debian.org/projects/python-apps/
> > 
> > - author of various open source softwares:
> > http://www.muflone.com/english.html
> > https://github.com/muflone/
> > https://code.google.com/u/102825094329389897213/
> > https://www.openhub.net/accounts/Muflone
> > 
> > - written hundreds of articles for an Italian website around VB6
> > development through the 1998 and 2004: http://www.vbsimple.net/
> > 
> > - written hundreds of articles for an Italian website around Ubuntu
> > through the 2009 and the 2011: http://ubuntrucchi.wordpress.com/
> > 
> > - support in the Italian Ubuntu forum, I was the second most active
> > member of the forum through the 2009 and the 2012:
> > http://forum.ubuntu-it.org/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=73229
> > 
> > - support and founder of LQH (Linux Quality Help), an Italian GNU/Linux
> > forum where normal users could ask their questions and only the experts
> > group could offer support, resulting in higher quality service, ran only
> > from highly experienced users through the 2009 and the 2012:
> > https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.linuxqualityhelp.it/supporto
> > 
> > - written tenth of Italian video guides around PyGTK development through
> > the 2008 and the 2010: http://pygtk.wordpress.com/
> > 
> > - written a couple of articles around GNOME Shell in the 2011:
> > http://gnomeshell.wordpress.com/
> > 
> > - could continue but better stopping here.. too boring. I'm sorry!
> > 
> > ArchLinux is actually my favorite GNU/Linux distributions and I think I
> > could do a lot of work in enhancing this great distribution.
> > What I love about ArchLinux is the perfect control it gives to me and it
> > needs from me.
> > 
> > Every time I need some software, I package it and then I publish it
> > under AUR.
> > I try to apply an old Microsoft rule: "Never ever write the same thing
> > twice", so if the software resulted useful to me then it could be useful
> > for other users and AUR is a perfect place where to find stuff.
> > 
> > There are a lot of packages that I wish to move in the community
> > repository: hfsprogs, kompozer, sweethome3d, gmtp, arista,
> > spyder/spyder3, sbackup, gwakeonlan, gespeaker, remmina-plugin-*,
> > python-ptrace.
> > 
> > There are also packages maintained from other users that I wish to see
> > in community repository: dex2jar, dmg2img, firefox-theme-adwaita and
> > thunderbird-theme-adwaita, gigolo, gscan2pdf, httrack, linkchecker,
> > loggedfs, netactview, pacmanlogviewer, parallel-python, pyrenamer.
> > 
> > I read daily the AUR general and AUR requests mailing lists but I never
> > participate in the discussions, after many years of discussions in other
> > ML and forums I lost the pleasure in writing stuff inside the communities.
> > The same applies to IRC, too much time spent in helping others (I was
> > also HelpOp in #irchelp) forced me to away even from IRC.
> > 
> > My job coincided with my favorite hobby so, apart my personal projects
> > (see GitHub) I love reading heavy books (technical, development,
> > sysadmin, networking but also theater or classic novels) and watching
> > films when the TV is not owned by my gf.
> > 
> > Thank you for reading up to here.
> > Best regards
> > 
> > Fabio Castelli / Muflone
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> I'm confirming my sponsorship. I think that Fabio has great experience,
> and has excellent packages in AUR.
> 
> A discussion period of 5 days has been started now.
> 
> --
> György Balló
> Trusted User

The discussion period is over, and the voting period is started now.
Please vote: https://aur.archlinux.org/tu/?id=77

--
György Balló
Trusted User
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