On 18/11/2009, Ranguvar <rangu...@archlinux.us> wrote: > Hello Archers, > > This is Devin Cofer, aka Ranguvar. I'm writing because I have been thinking > for a while about applying to become a Trusted User, and I feel that now I > have enough basic knowledge of C, Bash, sed, and Perl to apply. > > I maintain quite a > few<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=Ranguvar>packages, > and I'm very fast at updating them, if I may say so, going so far > as to provide my own i686 builds for use by > bin32-wine<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7915>when [extra] > is taking a long time between updates :) > The firefox-pgo <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22296> and > firefox-pgo-beta <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22919> packages > are not mine, but they were completely rewritten by me, as you can see from > the comments there. I do officially maintain > firefox-pgo-minefield<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32030> > . > > I have sometimes contributed to [extra] and [community] work; I sent an > initial > mail<http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2009-October/007004.html>to > aur-general about updating LLVM to 2.6, and worked on the PKGBUILD for > it. > Also, I filed a bug <http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16165> for the speedup > of Vim package building, and wrote a new script to handle fetching patches, > which was much faster than the original (until another user used a better > idea to make a far better package :p). > Lastly, I have commented on other packages many times and suggested > improvements (recent example being > autoconf-compat<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7224>), > and I submit regular bug reports and duplicate packages -- and I'm very > active on the forums <http://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=18355>. > > As a TU, I will continue to try to improve the quality of AUR PKGBUILDs as a > whole, commenting and offering suggestions, deleting duplicates, and > orphaning long-out-of-date packages. > As for packages I bring into [community], I will probably end up focusing on > development tools. > > Xyne has kindly agreed to sponsor my application; he will likely reply to > this soon. Thanks very much for considering me as a possible addition to the > TU team! > > -- Ranguvar > Wow, this dude really impressed me. Hope you will be soon aboard.
-- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer