[aur-general] TU application sponsored by David Reisner

[Ike Devolder]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 04:24:56AM -0800, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On 2/4/14, 12:54 AM, Ike Devolder wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 11:26:22AM -0800, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
> >> Hi everyone
> >>
> >> I would like to apply for a Arch Trusted User position. It is
> >> sponsored by my co-worker and bright engineer David Reisner.
> >>
> >> My name is Anatol Pomozov, I grew up in Belarus but live in USA now. I
> >> am an open-source enthusiast who uses Linux since about 2005. I've
> >> been using several distros mostly Debian based. About 2.5 years ago,
> >> when Ubuntu in-place upgrade killed my system once again, I've decided
> >> to give a try to a rolling-release distro.
> >>
> >> I had heard that Arch was difficult to use and unstable so I've been
> >> skeptical that Arch would survive at my computers for a long time. At
> >> my surprise Arch installation was easy and system was fast and stable.
> >> Documentation is clean and very helpful. And package manager is
> >> *FAST*! Yeah!  I fell in love with Arch from the very first day. A few
> >> months later all my home computers were moved to Arch. And despite
> >> that I usually do crazy experiments at my home machines I've never had
> >> serious problems with Arch. Well, the only problem with Arch was in
> >> systemd-207 that prevented my btrfs-root machine from booting.
> >>
> >> About a year ago I started playing more active role in Arch community.
> >> I adopted a lot of broken and out-of-date packages. Currently I own
> >> 350+ packages [1]. A lot of packages are for ruby gems that previously
> >> were out-of-date or had broken dependencies. I improved existing
> >> gem2arch tool [2] and it helps me with ruby packages herding.
> >>
> >>
> >> At my day job I work on Linux kernel development/support at a large
> >> server farm. My daily activity includes a lot of debugging,
> >> performance profiling, code archaeology both for linux kernel and
> >> in-house userspace code. Some of my linux changes went upstream, here
> >> are few of them:
> >>
> >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/12/391
> >> http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=134750749009884&w=2
> >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/1/171
> >>
> >> Google Chromebook developers reported that my last patch fixed one of
> >> their top kernel crashes!
> >>
> >> Recently me and my 6 y/o son started learning microelectronics and
> >> digital design. Maybe some day we'll create MIPS-like CPU.
> >>
> >>
> >> Why do I want to become a TU? I like Arch and would like to keep it
> >> improving. It means making packages better, participate in important
> >> discussions that define where the distro moves.
> >>
> >> The short/mid terms plans for me are:
> >>  - move some of my aur packages to community: rethinkdb, codespell,
> >> tup, mldonkey, v8. There are some other aur packages that I use and
> >> would also like to see in [community]: fatsort, digital design related
> >> tools, ...
> >>  - add android-sdk-* packages. Current AUR packages download binaries
> >> and install binaries to /opt/bin. The binaries are 32-bit. Instead we
> >> should build SDK from sources and provide proper 64/32-bit binaries.
> >> This might be tricky as Android build system is complicated.
> >>  - request moving Apache to [community] and finally update this package to 2.4
> >>
> >> I can help with linux kernel issues, especially if they are related to
> >> storage/block subsystem.
> >>
> >> I also have experience with Ruby. This is my favorite scripting
> >> language that I use for 10 years now and I'll be glad to help with
> >> Ruby in Arch as well.
> >>
> >> [1] aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=anatolik
> >> [2] https://github.com/anatol/gem2arch
> > 
> > WOW, many packages :)
> > 
> > I just found something somewhat fishy in your subtle package:
> > patch -p1 < ../do_not_relink_binaries_on_install.diff
> > 
> > I'm not entirely sure i can break the build but i think it would be best
> > practice to do "$srcdir/do_not_relink_binaries_on_install.diff"
> 
> 
> The only thing that comes to my mind is if the folder where we 'cd'
> before doing 'patch' is a symlink. In this case '..' will differ from
> $srcdir. But unpacked source directory can't be a symlink, is it?
> 
> I do not mind to change it to the longer version "$srcdir/foo" if this
> is a recommended way to do, but first I want to know why it is recommended.
> 

I thought the recommended way was using "$srcdir/patch.diff", correct me
if I'm wrong

-- 
Ike
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