[aur-general] Arch Linux Trusted User application Christian Hesse

Ike Devolder ike.devolder at gmail.com
Wed Jan 14 08:27:46 UTC 2015


On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 11:44:26PM +0100, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 12:17:06 +0100
> Christian Hesse <list at eworm.de> wrote:
> > Hello Arch Linux community,
> > 
> > this year I received an extra Christmas present: Bartłomiej
> > Piotrowski asked me to apply to become an Arch Linux trusted user.
> > Just some days later Ike Devolder had the same in mind - as I already
> > have a sponsor he promised to give his vote. Thanks!
> > 
> > My name is Christian Hesse (aka eworm), I was born in 1982 and I live
> > in Germany. I work for an educational institution, with FOM
> > (Fachhochschule für Ökonomie und Management) being the most prominent
> > part. My work includes networking and Linux stuff. Most Linux servers
> > are Debian based, some machines even run Arch.
> > In my free time I fly radio controlled helicopters, take photographs,
> > read books, go geocaching, meet friends, ...
> > 
> > My first contact with Linux was about 1998 when SuSE Linux 6.8 (or
> > similar, not perfectly sure) was offered by my school in a special
> > deal. I installed it but did not manage to get the X server running.
> > Some time later I bought a SuSE Linux 7.0 package, installed it and
> > abandoned the well known proprietary operating system. I am a free
> > software enthusiast since these days.
> > Some SuSE versions later I was annoyed by Yast overwriting my
> > configuration files over and over again... I decided do install LFS
> > (Linux from scratch) and learned a lot, changed to Gentoo to get a
> > package manager and finally installed Arch Linux in... Hmm... January
> > 2010? ... for a serious system. I felt in love with this great
> > distribution and its package manager pacman. To date I am perfectly
> > happy. My main system is still running my first Arch Linux
> > installation (though this installation survived at least three
> > notebooks...).
> > 
> > I started maintaining packages in AUR [0] soon. Within four and a
> > half year the number increased to over 200, still counting.
> > I would like to move some of these to [community]: MySQL Workbench
> > comes in mind with 274 votes, LibreCAD and various Yubikey related
> > packages being other candidates. Hopefully PackageKit will be
> > prepared for prime time again soon.
> > 
> > My main focus is on system administration, but I do have an attitude
> > to programming. A number of open source projects includes changes by
> > me, some just being bug fixes, some introducing new features. I do
> > not want to bore you, so I will not list them here.
> > I even have started some projects on my own [1][2]. Dynamic QR
> > code on website anybody? Or desktop notifications for journal
> > entries, netlink or block device changes? Some projects are specific
> > to Arch Linux. Want to share pacman cache on local network? Full disk
> > encryption with mkinitcpio and Yubikey?
> > 
> > On community events I got in contact with the Linux Professional
> > Institute. Nowadays I am member of LPI German e.V. [3] and working as
> > proctor taking certification exams.
> > Additionally my co-author Michael Gisbers and I wrote a German book
> > ("Linux Essentials. Vorbereitung auf die Prüfung des Linux
> > Professional Institute") for Linux Essentials exam preparation,
> > published at Open Source Press [4].
> > 
> > I am going to marry next month, so do not expect me to be too active
> > until the end of January. Nevertheless I would be pleased to join the
> > team now and enhance Arch Linux in the future.
> > Thanks a lot to all of you for considering my application.
> > 
> > Best Regards,
> > Chris
> > 
> > [0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=eworm
> > [1] https://github.com/eworm-de
> > [2] http://git.eworm.de/
> > [3]
> > http://www.lpice.eu/lpi-partner/lpi-ev/die-mitglieder-des-lpi-e-v/christian-hesse.html
> > [4] http://www.opensourcepress.de/de/autoren/Christian-Hesse
> 
> The discussion period has ended. TUs can vote in the usual place.
> 
> Regards,
> Bartłomiej

On behalf of Bartłomiej:

Congratulations Eworm, you got accepted as TU.

28 yes and 3 no votes makes that you are welcome to the team :).

Christian, I changed your AUR account access level.

Please read [1] and [2].

For access to #archlinux-tu query Bartłomiej or me.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:HOWTO_Be_A_Packager
[2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines#TODO_list_for_new_Trusted_Users

-- 
Ike
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