On 27.10.2010 06:33, Kaiting Chen wrote: > I'm twenty one years old and a senior at Duke University studying Biomedical > Engineering with a minor in Economics. I have also been a web developer and > systems administrator for about four years now and am currently working on a > rather long and protracted project for the university. I have been using > Linux on a daily basis for about seven years now starting with Red Hat > Linux, then Debian, Gentoo and finally Arch Linux for the last three years. > And I use C, C++, x86 ASM, Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, and Javascript on a > daily basis. That is fairly impressive. Once I turn 21 I will barely be through regular school and just about to start studying. > I have Arch installed on four servers in total as well as on one virtual > machine. I'm not ashamed to admit that I run a Windows 7 notebook as my only > physical computer; though it's only role these days is to not bother me > while I SSH into my Linux machines. Let's not be ashamed. I'm using Windows 7 for delicious games but I *do* wonder about the excuse why a netbook should have to run it. :P > I currently maintain thirty packages in the AUR, most of which I do not use > but would be unhappy in seeing them orphaned. If you are a good maintainer and at least test but not usually use your packages, that should be alright. > I would like to become a Trusted User simply because I would like to > maintain packages more effectively. Recently there's been a thread on > aur-general about the possible removal of hundreds of packages from > [community] which makes me very worried. Packages such as cacti, courier-*, > ejabberd, freeradius*, ipsec-tools, monit, roundcubemail, scilab, and *ircd > are very important to people who run Arch on the server such as myself. This > list evinces a fundamental problem however that there is simply not enough > manpower to maintain the current repositories. Because I am able (or > hopefully will be deemed so by the powers that be/grant TU priveleges) I > would like to help alleviate this condition. Arch allows me to focus on the > work that I do; it should be obvious that helping to ensure that Arch > functions smoothly and efficiently is a necessary task for anyone who has > made this distribution a valuable part of their workflow. Great idea, many packages required by servers get little love right now. I've taken it upon myself to keep my mail stack maintained (courier-*). I'd be glad if there were more people helping out here. > In more concrete terms of how I want to contribute, I would like to start by > adopting python-openbabel, freeimage, metakit, gen2shp, tdl, python-bsddb, > and other orphaned packages in [community] once I have the chance to take a > closer look at the orphan list. I'd also like to pull smalltalk, burp, bti, > liboauth, and vim-align into [community]. I would also like to work on > bringing some of the packages in [community] up to date such as rsyslog, > pyinotify, openntpd, and ngspice. Sounds like a plan. > That's about all I can think of for now. Please feel free to ask any > questions and thanks for taking the time to consider my application Your application failed in terms of entertainment but otherwise was fine.
All in all, this is +2. -- Sven-Hendrik