[aur-general] TU Application - Konstantin Gizdov

Sun Oct 14 21:41:13 UTC 2018

Sure, I can share the load. I've built tensorflow+cuda from scratch a
couple of times and completely understand the struggle. :)

On 14/10/2018 22:31, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2018, 22:34 Konstantin Gizdov <arch at kge.pw> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am Konstantin Gizdov [1] [2],
>> (`kgizdov`, `arch at kge.pw`, `kgizdov at gmail.com`)
>>
>> I would like to apply to be a Trusted User under Baptiste Jonglez's
>> sponsorship.
>>
>> A few words about me:
>>
>> I am currently a Particle Physics PhD at Univerisity of Edinburgh and I
>> have used Linux since my early teenage years. After I finished
>> high-school, Linux has been my main operating system. I embraced Open
>> Source software for a long time ago and contribute to such several
>> projects [2][3][4]. I have been with Arch Linux since 4+ years ago,
>> although only more active since 2+ years.
>>
>> My main work is concentrated on Experimental Particle Physics & the LHCb
>> Detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. As part of that I have
>> been involved in the development, upgrade & maintenance of the
>> High-Level Trigger & RICH systems and LHCb's data flow [3]. I also have
>> experience with a lot of data processing & analysis - data distillation
>> & enrichment, machine learning, statistical analysis, etc - and
>> associated tools. Separately, I maintain several machines - a personal
>> web server, company server with several VMs, local workhorse server,
>> personal workstation & laptop (sprinkle around some RaspberryPis and
>> network devices here and there). This put me in a unique position to
>> work with many and different kinds of systems and software - ranging
>> from ASICs & FPGAs, through localized control systems & end-user devices
>> to large clusters & super computers. Daily, I use popular tools such as
>> VMs, docker, git, GCC, CUDA, tensorflow, Cern's ROOT, but I also run a
>> lot of custom and even-self made software [4][6]. All of this has been a
>> breeze on Arch Linux.
>>
>> Thus, a couple of years ago, I decide to get more involved and
>> contribute. I took on the task to maintain CERN's ROOT package [7] and
>> since then I've involved myself heavily into that, I'm a contributor to
>> the project and I use it daily in my work. I have been providing this
>> package for many colleagues in the field, including all of its stack &
>> complementary tools (Pythia, XRootD & other Python tools). I have
>> enabled a lot of new features and worked with upstream towards new
>> functionality, bug fixes, etc. On top of that I have shipped several
>> other related projects - machine learning packages, SciKit-HEP packages
>> like uproot, Docker images, GitLab CIs and so on.
>>
>> I have also been able to develop and publish a machine learning project
>> me and colleague came up with [4]. This is soon going to be a package in
>> SciKit-HEP and I will aim to make it package here too. Arch Linux was a
>> great platform for all of this. I was able to install & configure
>> up-to-date software easily and what I did not find, I provided for me &
>> others on the AUR without too much hassle.
>>
>> Overall, I have to say Arch Linux (and its community) have played a key
>> role in me being able to do all of these things. I have found the OS
>> itself to be stable and flexible and the users & maintainers
>> approachable and direct, which I appreciate a lot. I have met a lot of
>> people through the Arch Linux community - forums, AUR and just saying 'I
>> use Arch, too!', haha.
>>
>> The reason for applying to become a TU is to get even more involved and
>> give back to the community. If you accept me, I would like to continue
>> maintaining and improving my current packages as well as bring new
>> packages. As an AUR maintainer I basically consider it an on-going duty
>> already.
>>
>> I would like to maintain/contribute/adopt the following:
>>
>>   * Packages I would like to co-maintain:
>>       o python-awkward
>>       o libafterimage
>>       o xxhash
>>       o unuran
>>   * Packages I already maintain and intend to move from AUR:
>>       o root & root-extra
>>       o xrootd
>>       o simpletools
>>       o root5
>>       o python-root_numpy
>>       o python-uproot
>>       o python-uproot-methods
>>       o python-hep_ml
>>       o pythia
>>       o llvm50
>>       o llvm50-libs
>>       o clang50
>>   * New packages I would like to add/move from AUR:
>>       o cern-vdt
>>       o cvmfs
>>       o HepDrone [4]
>>       o python-keras
>>       o root_pandas (new)
>>       o histbook (new)
>>       o decaylanguage (new)
>>       o pyjet (new)
>>       o vegascope (new)
>>       o root_ufunc (new)
>>       o formulate (new)
>>
>> I hope to make Arch Linux more versatile and accessible to users in data
>> science, high-energy physics & machine learning, and possibly as a whole.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Konstantin
>>
>> 1. https://keybase.io/kgizdov
>> 2. https://github.com/kgizdov
>> 3. https://gitlab.cern.ch/kgizdov
>> 4. https://github.com/Tevien/HEPDrone
>> 5. https://github.com/scikit-hep
>> 6. https://gitlab.cern.ch/kgizdov/pdqa-automation
>
> Great stuff. Would you be interested in co-maintaining tensorflow, cuda and
> pytorch and related packages? They sometimes cost a lot of time to fix up.

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