On 01-20 17:55, Doug Newgard wrote: > ---------------------------------------- > > Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 23:32:08 +0000 > > From: o...@project-insanity.org > > To: aur-general@archlinux.org > > Subject: [aur-general] TU application, sponsored by Lukas Fleischer > > > > Hi ArchLinux community, > > I like to apply as TU, sponsored by Lukas Fleischer (aka CryptoCrack), > > since my passion and work for ArchLinux continues since half a decade > > and I really would like to get more involved into development and > > package maintaining. > > My name is Jonas (my public key [1]), I'm 23 years old, computer science > > student in Karlsruhe, Germany. I switched to Linux in school while > > working voluntarily on a school server [2] and school internet cafe > > together with a class mate in our free time. Hacking on fun projects > > became on of my big hobbies and some of them are documented in my blog > > [3]. I get a lot of inspiration and exchange in my local hacker space, > > the Entropia e.V. [4] which is part of the CCC (Chaos Computer Club) [5] > > but also at work as a network administrator at the architecture faculty > > of my university. > > I love ArchLinux, using it on my servers (with several ArchLinux vms) > > and on my laptop, because it's simple, basic and fast. The wiki is also > > one of my favorite places in the community, because all the > > documentation is pragmatic and to the point. I constantly write new > > how-to's or improve instructions on other pages [6]. In my opinion, a > > well written Wiki/Doku, also for all the third-party software, is very > > important and one reason why I don't want to use Debian anymore for my > > projects. > > I learned how to write clean and sometimes complex PKGBUILDs over time > > and now maintaining up to 150 AUR packages [7]. Some of them are really > > important to me (using them on my server or integrated them to my > > projects) and I think also important to the community, so I would like > > to put them into the community repository. For example: archivemount, > > btar, dmtcp, etherpad-lite, freecad, gallery, gitlab, hlds, joomla, > > opentracker, pyload, python-libtorrent-rasterbar, sslstrip, etc. For > > other packages, I adopted them just to fix broken PKGBUILDs or I tried > > to port non-supported software to ArchLinux like Zenoss, oVirt or Kolab > > while working with their developers to improve ArchLinux support. > > At least, here are some of my experimental projects you can look at: > > p2pacman [8], pkgcheck [9], wikidict [10], carpc based on ArchLinux > > [11]. > > For further questions, you can find me on #archlinux at freenode or just > > ask them here on the mailinglist. > > Best regards, > > Jonas > > > > [1] http://onny.project-insanity.org/files/gpg.asc > > [2] > > http://www.project-insanity.org/blog/2010/06/03/dokumentation-zur-einrichtung-des-schulserver-fur-die-freie-waldorfschule-vaihingenenz/ > > (text unfortunately in German) > > [3] http://project-insanity.org > > [4] https://entropia.de > > [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Computer_Club > > [6] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Special:Contributions/Onny > > [7] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=onny&SeB=m > > [8] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=163362 > > [9] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=162816 > > [10] https://git.morbi-happens.de/onny/wikidict > > [11] > > http://www.project-insanity.org/blog/2012/10/10/archlinux-touchscreen-carpc-mit-xbmc-frontend/ > > I'm a nobody, so my opinion probably doesn't count, but if you can't properly > maintain the package you already have the AUR, why do you want to take on more > responsibility? A quick look shows packages marked out of date, one for nearly > 10 months (flamerobin), packages with fixes posted in the comments months ago > that you haven't implemented (libappindicator), VCS packages with useless > pkgver() functions (most of your -git packages), and packages with no > package() > function (vim-paster and others). So help me out here, what would make you a > good TU? Most of the packages get better over time and in my case, it's not possible to have 140 packages in perfect state at once. So I can perfectly update or fix 4 packages/day (sometimes more if I automatically scan for new releases with pkgcheck :)), but some require community feedback/discussion, some need upstream fixes or further time for debugging. For the most part, the packages were in a much worse state than today. In my opinion the AUR is something like a incubator for new, experimental or less popular packages. If I havent put an early unfinished version of Gitlab [1] into the AUR, I wouldn't have been able to get that many constructive feedback and at the same time write an instruction at the wiki [2]. I guess the diversity is the reason, why the AUR is such a popular feature of ArchLinux. Of course there are more stable, less experimental packages which I want to see in the community repository.
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gitlab/ [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gitlab
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