[aur-general] TU application for sudoforge

[Jelle van der Waa]

Hi,

On 29/01/2022 23:27, Ben Denhartog via aur-general wrote:
> Hello good people and fellow miscreants,
> 
> My name is Benjamin Denhartog, better known as sudoforge [0], and I'd like to
> formally submit an application to become a TU. I've maintained a few AUR
> packages for a while now [1], and you've probably seen me around and about in
> IRC (_mostly_ `#archlinux-offtopic` these days). Both Felix Yan (felixonmars)
> and Morten Linderud (Foxboron) have agreed to sponsor my application.
<snip>
> Below are some of the things I pledge to do as a TU.
> 
> # AUR packages that I'll move to community

Some notes on the proposed packages:

> - bazelisk

No offense, but the Github description made me think, "now I have bazel 
and Golang, now I have three problems".

> - buildozer

This seems to not use the AUR bazelisk package for building, but a 
release from github? Why doesn't it use the AUR package?

I myself try to avoid using "advanced" (or hard to read) bash in 
PKGBUILDs such as here 
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=buildozer#n44

> - copybara (`copybara-git`)
> - firebase-tools
> - google-appengine-go

This depends on python2, something we want to get rid of :)

> - google-cloud-sdk
> - google-cloud-sdk-app-datastore-emulator
> - google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-java
> - google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-python
> - google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-python-extras

These don't seem to be super popular packages, what would be the benefit 
of having them in the repo? It seems that the Python runtime is python2 
something we actively want to get rid off. Secondly why can't it install 
itself in the proper location /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/$thing?

> - kind (`kind-bin`)
> - ledger-live
> - ledger-udev
> - lf
> 
> Additionally, I'll be packaging the rest of the `google-cloud-sdk` plugins which
> are not yet packaged, and I'd love to help co-maintain or adopt Rust or Golang
> packages, and anything else that strikes my fancy along the way.
> 
> # A non-exhaustive list of packages I use and would love to co-maintain
> 
> - alacritty
> - bat
> - bazel
> - bottom
> - buildah
> - container-diff
> - crictl
> - critest
> - go
> - gopass
> - kubectl
> - kubectx
> - ledger
> - neomutt
> - packer
> - podman
> - restic
> - ripgrep
> - rtorrent
> - rust
> - rust-analyzer
> - rustup
> - signal-desktop
> - unbound
> - vault
> - zsa-wally-cli

Sounds good!
> 
> # Miscellaneous things I want to do
> 
> - Take a look at the TU and maintainer workflows, and automate what can be
>    automated (e.g. onboarding), with the goal of simplifying management of the
>    Arch Linux ecosystem

Cool, the current pain points are that archlinux.org is not on SSO, 
mailman subscriptions aren't automated for Staff. Help is certainly 
welcome there, so feel free to drop in #archlinux-devops with questions :)

Thanks for applying,

Jelle van der Waa
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