On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 08:46:54PM +0100, Alexandre Filgueira wrote: > Hi everybody, > > This whole thing of becoming a TU began after talking by email with > Allan about one article of his where he talked about one project of > mine. He put me in contact with Evangelos Foutras to be my sponsor, > and here I am trying to become a TU. > > My name is Alexandre Filgueira. I'm a galician guy (Spain), 22 to 23 > years old and computer lover. > I'm a sysadmin and teacher. I like bash, python and vala, but I have > knowledge in some other languages. I also like web programming. > I'm a tv-show/cinema addict and music lover, from classic to blues, > jazz, rock, punk... > > I installed Arch the first time in 2008, at 18 years old. I was with > Ubuntu since 2006 and I always wanted to have more control over some > things, so I began trying distros... (Fedora, Gentoo, Debian...). > When I saw what Arch was about, my head thought... oh yeah baby! > ...and when I had my first Arch Linux system installed... I simply felt > in love. > > My first forum post is dated 2009.02.18 asking about help with the > grub when I deleted my ubuntu partition to have just Arch on my > system. I'm better now xD > I just have 2 packages in AUR simply because everything I wanted was > in the official repos or already in AUR [1]. > > After all these years using Arch Linux, I thought that I wasn't > helping the community as I could. I have a couple of forum posts, > most of them asking. I did years ago a script to automatically install > and configure a gnome system (gnome 2 in that time)[2]. > My last contribution to the Arch Linux world is Cinnarch, being a > bridge to show how good is our base system, showing them across a > beautiful window, keeping the real rolling release soul intact. > Thanks to my work on Cinnarch, I could find a bug in libalpm and I > tried to fix it, with the help of David Reisner, the patch has already > been merged.[3]
Out of curiosity, why did you never respond to my initial feedback? > My plan is to bring cinnamon to Arch Linux, a classic desktop built > with modern technologies. I think is a good one to have in our > official repos. > I don't own the cinnamon package in AUR, when I began with Cinnarch, > that package already existed. But I fixed some of the problems with > that package, like the switch to systemd (I was awake until 3am > fixing that thing in Cinnarch and then I reported the fix to the > Arch Linux community), or the screensaver fix when gnome 3.6 came. > > And I think that's all. Thanks for considering me to become a TU. > > [1]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=faidoc&SeB=m > [2]http://archive.org/details/Videotutorial > [3]https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2013-January/016283.html > >