[aur-general] TU application - Segaja

[Tim Meusel]

hey,

I'm a bit late here, but: I worked with Andreas in the past months from 
time to time and reviewed many of the PKGBUILDs and on some we worked 
together. I think he will be a good fit for Arch Linux to boost the 
quality of our ruby packages.

cheers, Tim

On 15.11.21 19:18, Andreas 'Segaja' Schleifer via aur-general wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> My name is Andreas Schleifer, in the internet also known as Segaja, and 
> I would
> like to apply to the position of a Trusted User. My sponsors are Levente 
> Polyak
> and Jelle van der Waa, thanks for that ;)
> 
> I'm a 34 years old DevOps engineer in the same company as Levente is 
> currently
> working in. I have started as a (PHP) developer and have over time 
> migrated to
> also doing devops work.
> My Linux "career" started around 2005/2006 during my university time 
> with Ubuntu.
> A few years later a friend of mine kindly pointed me to Arch Linux. At the
> beginning it was a bit uncomfortable for me but I quickly embraced the 
> fact that
> there was no UI to configure anything and that you have to work directly 
> on the
> configuration files.
> In the past year I have started to become more interested in packaging 
> for Arch
> which made me adopt two orphaned AUR packages ([1] and [2]) and upload 
> one new
> package [3]) to AUR. Some packages I started as AUR packages were later 
> moved by
> Levente into the official community repository: [4], [5]
> At some point I also got interested in the reproducible builds topic and 
> helped
> out there a bit [6]. This is also where I got in contact with Jelle and 
> we talked
> a few times on IRC back then.
> When I got interested in becoming a TU I talked with Levente about this 
> and he
> suggested that I should try to get some more packaging experience, so he 
> suggested
> me to try to (re-)package schleuder [8] which was in a very old and 
> broken version
> in AUR back then. It took me quiet a while and I learned a lot, but in 
> the end
> I eneded up packaging schleuder [9] and schleuder-cli [10]. The biggest 
> learning
> from that for me was
> 1) that packaging is much more then "dumping" an upstream tool into a 
> PKGBUILD file
>     to be installed on a users system and
> 2) that the ruby ecosystem can be very annoying to deal with. A lot of 
> inconsistent
>     tools to be used for testing and a lot of cyclic dependencies which 
> makes writing
>     PKGBUILD files with check() functions very difficult.
> In the process of packaging the schleuder packages I also ended up with 
> a host of
> other ruby packages which were needed [11].
> In order to be able to package the schleuder packages I also worked 
> closely with
> the upstream maintainers to resolve issues that came up in the Arch 
> Linux build
> environment.
> I have some devops experience from my daily work and I would like to 
> also offer
> this to Arch Linux over time. I already talked with Jelle and Levente 
> about some
> of the devops projects that were going on in the past. I'm currently 
> also working
> on an ansible role to install schleuder on Arch Linux infrastructure 
> [12] in order to
> handlesecurity at archlinux.org  [13].
> As TU I would also like to help out Levent and other package maintainers 
> to keep
> their awesome packages up to date with upstream changes/releases (e.g. 
> [4], [5],
> [7]). I would also like to migrate hss [1] and stern [2] to the official
> repositories, as I believe they are both very useful tools for people 
> who work
> with servers (hss) and kubernetes (stern) often.
> 
> If you have any questions or want to know more you can also reach me on IRC
> in #archlinux
> 
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Segaja
> 
> 
> [1]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hss/
> [2]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/stern/
> [3]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/prometheus-dnsmasq-exporter-git/
> [4]https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/aliyun-cli/
> [5]https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/alicloud-vault/
> [6]https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2020-06/
> [7]https://archlinux.org/packages/community/any/ls++/
> [8]https://schleuder.org/
> [9]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/schleuder/
> [10]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/schleuder-cli/
> [11]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=Segaja&SeB=m
> [12]https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/merge_requests/497 
> 
> [13]https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/issues/178
> 
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