[aur-general] TU application for Eli Schwartz

[Anatol Pomozov]

Hi Eli

Welcome to the TU team!

It's been pleasure for me to work with you before. And now when you
officially became TU there are more possibilities for you to bring
your knowledge and passion to Arch Linux. Congrats, Eli!


On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Sébastien Luttringer <seblu at seblu.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-12-25 at 22:34 +0100, Bartłomiej Piotrowski via aur-general wrote:
>> On 2017-12-18 16:07, Bartłomiej Piotrowski via aur-general wrote:
>> > On 2017-12-13 14:52, Bartłomiej Piotrowski via aur-general wrote:
>> > > On 2017-12-13 13:57, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote:
>> > > > Hello, all. :)
>> > > >
>> > > > My name is Eli Schwartz, better known as eschwartz on the forums[1],
>> > > > AUR[2], bugtracker[3], wiki[4] general mailing lists, IRC, and
>> > > > generally
>> > > > everywhere I can stick my nose in. With the aid of Bartłomiej
>> > > > Piotrowski, I am applying today to become a TU.
>> > > >
>> > > > I'm 24 years old, and currently studying Computer Science in the United
>> > > > States.
>> > > >
>> > > > I've been interested in Linux ever since I was first introduced to it
>> > > > in
>> > > > high school, when I asked "what would be the best Linux distro to
>> > > > install if I really want to learn how things work", and I was
>> > > > recommended to try out Arch Linux. It's a choice I haven't regretted
>> > > > since!
>> > > > Outside of Linux my main hobby is books/ebooks (primarily SF&F of all
>> > > > sorts). I have leveraged this nicely to feed back into software which
>> > > > deals with ebooks. :)
>> > > >
>> > > > ...
>> > > >
>> > > > I've now been an active member of the Arch Linux community for
>> > > > approximately 3.5 years, and in that time I've become a member of the
>> > > > Arch Bug Wranglers team, given an Arch Classroom tutorial[5],
>> > > > contributed a few small patches to various Arch projects, mainly
>> > > > pacman[6], and generally hung out on the forums and in IRC, trying to
>> > > > be
>> > > > helpful. Recently I've been doing a bit of general helping out in
>> > > > #archlinux-reproducible[7] as well.
>> > > >
>> > > > I've always been especially interested in packaging for Arch Linux, and
>> > > > have reviewed many PKGBUILDs on this mailing list as well as in the AUR
>> > > > Issues, Discussion & PKGBUILD Requests subforum and in #archlinux-aur,
>> > > > written a popular script for maintaining AUR packages[8], and featured
>> > > > the topic of packaging for Arch Linux in the above-mentioned Arch
>> > > > Classroom tutorial. I anticipate doing all^W^W^Wmost of this in a
>> > > > somewhat more formal role. :)
>> > > >
>> > > > I would like to become a TU in order to contribute more to Arch Linux
>> > > > in
>> > > > general (because it would be a shame to miss out on one particular
>> > > > angle
>> > > > I guess). It would also give me more scope to help fix simple packaging
>> > > > bugs that come up on the bugtracker, help resolve some policy TODOs[9],
>> > > > fix packages which no longer build due to e.g. missing sources (many
>> > > > such packages have been discovered in part due to the valiant efforts
>> > > > of
>> > > > Reproducible Arch Linux and Arch Linux 32), and of course to bring some
>> > > > packages to [community] that I feel would do well there.
>> > > >
>> > > > If given the opportunity, I would consider bringing the following
>> > > > packages to community:
>> > > > - firefox-extension-https-everywhere (I conmaintain this)
>> > > > - fanficfare (I maintain this)
>> > > > - git-crypt
>> > > > - advancecomp
>> > > > - llpp
>> > > > - wikicurses
>> > > > - ghi
>> > > > - dtrx
>> > > > - checkbashisms
>> > > >
>> > > > I would adopt the cinnamon desktop packages, as faidoc is not very
>> > > > active currently and arojas, who currently builds them, says he'd
>> > > > prefer
>> > > > someone who actually uses it to do so.
>> > > > I've also received permission to comaintain sigil and qbittorrent, as
>> > > > well as calibre and its dependencies (I maintain the -git packages for
>> > > > all three in the AUR, and have contributed most of the calibre PKGBUILD
>> > > > as well).
>> > > >
>> > > > [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=84187
>> > > > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=M&SB=n&K=Eschwartz
>> > > > [3] https://bugs.archlinux.org/?project=0&do=user&id=19965
>> > > > [4] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Special:Contributions/Eschwart
>> > > > z
>> > > > [5] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Classroom#Previous_classes
>> > > > [6] https://github.com/eli-schwartz/pacman/commits/queue?author=eli-sch
>> > > > wartz
>> > > > [7] https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/archlinux/archlinux.html
>> > > > [8] https://github.com/eli-schwartz/pkgbuilds
>> > > > [9] https://www.archlinux.org/todo/
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > > I'm happy to confirm that I do sponsor Eli's application. Happy
>> > > discussing!
>> > >
>> > > Bartłomiej
>> > >
>> >
>> > Discussion period is over, time for the vote.
>> >
>> > Link for the lazy: https://aur.archlinux.org/tu/?id=99
>> >
>>
>> The vote has ended as well. TLDR: Eli, welcome aboard!
>>
>> Results:
>>
>> Yes: 36
>> No: 2
>> Abstain: 2
>>
>> Eli, please follow steps described here[1]. There is additional
>> documentation[2] that will concern you after you get 3 signatures from
>> master key holders.
>>
>> And, of course, congratulations!
>
> Congrats!
>
> Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer