Am 19.04.2010 08:27, schrieb Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227): >> Since then, I went through quite a few distributions: SuSE, Mandrake, >> Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian. Gentoo was the first distribution that got me >> interested in getting to know the internals a bit more. About a year >> ago, a fellow CS student introduced me to Arch. After I blew up my >> Fedora installation (accidentally wrote to /dev/root), I chose to give >> Arch a try. I got hooked. Its simplicity really makes it a joy to tinker >> with. :) Especially creating packages and offering them to others (AUR) >> is something Arch made easy. >> >> I currently run two Arch systems, one on my laptop and one on a headless >> box mainly acting as a router. Both are getting packages from [testing]. >> >> Arch is the first distribution I actually started contributing back to. >> I began frequenting the Archlinux channels on Freenode, now and then >> helping out others and asking my own questions. I reported bugs I found, >> and I uploaded and maintain 15 packages in the AUR [1]. >> >> I use Pulseaudio on my laptop: Some of my packages in the AUR center on >> it, and I gave the wiki page on Pulseaudio an overhaul. I'm interested >> in taking over maintenance of the pulseaudio packages in [community] and >> improve Pulseaudio on Arch Linux. >> >> A few days ago, I finally got up the nerve to write about my gripes with >> the gvim package and propose a solution [2]. I was overwhelmed with the >> positive response. Now Dan Griffiths approached me and offered to >> sponsor my application as a TU. Thank you, Dan. >> >> I hope I'm getting accepted as TU and we can work together on improving >> this great distribution. :-) >> >> Regards, >> Jan "heftig" Steffens >> >> >> 1: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=heftig >> 2: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19087 >> >> > I'm happy to sponser Jan in his efforts to become a Trusted User! He has > repeatedly shown an aptitude for helping users in IRC, and while he currently > maintains only a few packages in AUR, those he does maintain are impeccable. > He has expressed interest in maintaining the PulseAudio packages in > [community] > and given our recent losses, I would be happy to hand them off to him.
Wasn't there a request for someone who would maintain audio packages in general (and pulseaudio-based stuff in particular) recently?
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