[aur-general] Trusted user application: Drew DeVault

Jerome Leclanche jerome at leclan.ch
Mon Feb 25 01:10:04 UTC 2019


On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 12:23 AM Drew DeVault <sir at cmpwn.com> wrote:
>
> Hiya! Jerome convinced me to finally apply for TU, and Sven-Hendrik
> agreed to co-sponsor my application (both Cc'd).
>
> I'm a generalist that works on free software full time. I maintain the
> following AUR packages:
>
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=sircmpwn
>
> I also maintain a third-party Arch repo and oversee some automation for
> helping to build and publish new packages:
>
> https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-pkgbuilds
>
> I'm also the upstream maintainer for several packages in community,
> including wlroots, sway, and scdoc; and I maintain numerous packages for
> Alpine Linux as well. I maintain many other free software projects,
> most notably sourcehut, and I also contribute to many projects
> maintained by others as well.
>
> I think Jerome has been hoping for some relief from the packages I
> maintain the upstream for, so I may start by relieving that burden. I'd
> also like to move the samuari package into community, and likely some
> of the Python packages from my third-party repository as well.
>
> Outside of packaging, I have also been doing some exploratory work that
> I hope will lead to finally moving Arch Linux from SVN to git.
>
> As a long time fan and user of Arch Linux, I'm looking forward to the
> chance to give back to the community. If anyone has any questions,
> please let me know.
>
> --
> Drew DeVault

I confirm my sponsorship for this application. o/

I indeed currently maintain sway and one of its dependencies, would be
handing that off to Drew as he's better suited to package it.

J. Leclanche


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