On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Sven-Hendrik Haase <s...@lutzhaase.com>wrote:
> On 09/03/2011 06:13 PM, Alexander Rødseth wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> My name is Alexander Rødseth. I'm from Oslo, Norway, am 29 years old >> for two more months and have been using Arch for a couple of years. >> >> My first taste of Linux was a brief acquaintance with Red Hat over a >> decade ago, followed by Slackware and then Debian for a few years. Now >> I use Arch Linux both at home and at work, and it's my absolute >> favorite so far. >> >> My 62 AUR packages [1] have a total of 2519 votes, where 32% of the >> votes are for packages I submitted, while the rest are for previously >> orphaned packages, that needed a warm and caring home. >> >> I like how Arch tries to avoid fixing things behind your back, which I >> think is evident from the installation process, the package manager >> and the love for simplicity I've found in Arch users and developers >> alike. >> >> I enjoy programming in Go, Haskell, Python and C, try to contribute to >> open source projects with bug reports and the occasional patch (here >> is one for Blender [2] and one for Firefox [3]). When I was younger, I >> wrote a program for drawing icons and animating sprites. [4] I have a >> wacky homepage where I experiment with HTML5 and upload small CLI >> programs as I see fit. [5] >> >> I'm currently employed in Hue AS [6], a company that (roughly >> explained) sells a software engine for converting sound to >> 3D-graphics. I mainly work with developing and maintaining the >> internal systems for keeping track of licenses, builds and issues with >> the code (mostly written in Python). Luckily, I only program a minimum >> of C++. ;) >> >> I started working with programming before studying computer science, >> and I am on a lifelong track of continuing to learn stuff on my own. >> >> At least one of my AUR packages has been moved to [community] >> (lib32-libasyncns, moved by Jan Steffens in 2010, only have the e-mail >> as reference) and I've contributed to at least one package in [extra] >> [7]. >> >> I hang out and answer questions on #archlinux as often as I can. >> >> My goal with becoming a TU is first and foremost to help out with >> maintaining packages for the distro that I love and use. >> >> If I can find a bug to fix or a feature to add to pacman, or any other >> arch-centric application, I would like to do so. (Could an option for >> pacman to list all system-files that are not owned by a package be >> something?) >> >> I am grumpy before the first cup of coffee in the morning, other than >> that I'm generally happy, helpful and benevolent. I try to get a >> minimum of exercise and I'm in a stable relationship. I like the game >> of Go and creating music with jack, MIDI-synths and Arch, of course. >> >> Evangelos Foutras was kind enough to sponsor me for applying to become a >> TU. >> >> -- >> Humble regards, >> Alexander Rødseth >> (xyproto on IRC, trontonic on AUR) >> >> >> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/**packages.php?SeB=m&K=** >> trontonic&PP=128&SO=d&O=0&SB=v<https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=trontonic&PP=128&SO=d&O=0&SB=v> >> [2] >> http://www.3dmodellering.no/**beckmann/<http://www.3dmodellering.no/beckmann/> >> [3] >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=78414<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78414> >> (ctrl-f, "patch") >> [4] http://burn.sf.net >> [5] http://roboticoverlords.org >> [6] http://hue.no >> [7] http://projects.archlinux.org/**svntogit/packages.git/tree/** >> crypto%2B%2B/trunk/<http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/crypto%2B%2B/trunk/> >> > Good sir, > > thou seem to have quite an abundance of [community] candidates in thine > firm and warm grip. It fills me with beautiful pleasure to know that such a > fine and benevolent gentleman as thyself would find the time and desire to > write to this most welcoming of mailing lists to offer thine own will and > workforce to this organization of enlightened souls. > > It would appear that thou should be capable and able to help us out. I have > to inquire, though, whether there is anything thou would want to specialize > in? As thou seem to indulge in music creation and Go, perhaps those could be > thine utmost priority. > > +1 > Your Ceph package competes with my moosefs package :) I have been wondering when trontonic would show up here! I will look over your packages, but so far I think your application looks great!