On 07/15/13 at 11:00pm, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > On 15.07.2013 22:31, Dicebot wrote: > > [sponsor : Sven-Hendrik Haase] > > [AUR account : https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Dicebot] > > [IRC : Dicebot @ irc.freenode.net] > > > > Hello, > > > > Long story short - I am insterested in becoming a Trusted User and > > taking care of packages related to D programming language. > > > > I have been using Arch Linux for last ~5 years but that does not really > > matter as I have never spent any considerable time maintaining packages. > > What does matter though is that I am quite active member of D community > > and familiar with minor details about its current infrastructure and > > have personal interest in improving user experience in that domain. > > > > I have been maintaing reference D compiler package (dmd2) in AUR > > before its inclusion into main repositories and kept contacting > > Sven-Hendrik with various improvement proposals after. At some point > > in the relatively long mail thread he has suggested to make a TU > > application so that I can take over those packages and maintain them > > directly - which is the primary motivating reason behind this mail. > > > > As my general competence level as a packager relatively low I am > > planning to solely focus on domain I am proficient with - D compilers, > > libraries and notable applications. Also contacting with D maintainers > > in other distros to ensure reasonable consistency. > > > > Regards, > > > > Dicebot > > I'm confirming my sponsorship of this dude. I'd like to hand over the D > toolchain to someone else who actually uses D but I think it should stay > within official Arch repos. > > He has helped me with the official D packages in the past. Furthermore, > I think this person shows good technical competence in general and can > probably be trusted with a few unrelated packages as well. I don't > consider the low self-perceived level of packaging experience a problem > in this case. > > Sven >
It's nice to see someone apply who is willing to maitain the D toolchain. But are you willing to maintain non-related D packages in [community] which are currently orphan or is there a certain category of packages you like to maintain? -- Jelle van der Waa
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