On 03/20/2015 01:05 AM, Levente Polyak wrote: > Hello everyone, > > My name is Levente Polyak (also known as anthraxx) and I would like to > apply to become an Arch Linux TU. First at all I wanted to thank Felix > Yan for being my sponsor for this journey. > > I was born in 1986 in Budapest (Hungary) and I'm currently working as a > software developer and security engineer / pentester in Hamburg > (Germany). I use GNU/Linux since something around 2001 and over the > years collected lot of experience with different distributions and > setups, going from SUSE over Debian and Ubuntu to Gentoo (and some > others just for testing or education purpose). I was never fully > satisfied with any of those, however with Gentoo I became acquainted > with the concept of rolling releases which since then I don't wanted to > ever miss. Finally around 2011 I gave Arch Linux a try and within a very > short period of time I got fully addicted to its simplicity, flexibility > and up-to-dateness. It was the first distribution were I started to feel > like being "home" without having anything that annoyed me. > > I started maintaining packages in the AUR in 2013 and it didn't took > long until I noticed that I evolved a passion for doing that. Since then > I adopted and submitted several tools and libraries [0] that I find > useful and/or use myself. > When I find packaging issues or software bugs I contact upstream about > the problems and/or contribute to the code directly. To name some: > binwalk, lynis, shellnoob, xortool, selene, minitube... > > Besides my packaging activities I am very active in the Arch CVE > Monitoring Team [1] since the first security advisory proposal of Remi > [2]. As part of the team I track all relevant CVEs [3] which affect our > official packages, push mitigation for important issues via bug reports > and publish Arch Linux security advisories (ASA) [4] to the > arch-security mailing list [5]. I'm also interested in developing for > the Arch Linux ecosystem and as I noticed that the wiki became quite > painful for tracking and handling the mitigation procedure, I started > building a security tracker. If my current plan sum up I will be able to > provide a preview of this soonish. > > My packages reflect my emphasis related to security, but my general > interest in maintaining is not limited to that. However, I experienced > that in various security and forensics circles Arch Linux is often being > used and people are frequently crying why some of their daily tools are > not available in the official repositories. > > If I became a TU, I would like to start with moving the following > packages maintained by me to [community]: lynis, pyrit, binwalk, > sslstrip, p0f, cowpatty, perl-term-extendedcolor, smali, volatility, > vit, hexer. > > Additionally I would love to also move some packages maintained by other > users to [community] but currently its just an idea as I did not yet ask > them what they think about this step: radare2, capstone, zmap, zaproxy, > hydra, medusa, nikto, snort, foremost, xpdf, pngcrush, wavemon, > python-colorama (+ python2-colorama). > > On top of this I also had a look at the currently orphaned packages in > [community] and I would like to adopt the following packages: ansible, > awesome, cclive, codeblocks, fail2ban, fish, ncmpcpp, id3v2. > > As a small fadeout, besides all of the above, my favorite hobbies are > hanging around at the local CCC hackerspace in Hamburg, playing it-sec > CTFs, watching animes, geocaching and playing boardgames. > > Kind regards, > Levente > > [0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=anthraxx > [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_CVE_Monitoring_Team > [2] > https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-security/2014-September/000098.html > [3] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CVE > [4] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Security_Advisorie > [5] https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-security
The discussion period has ended. Time to vote TUs! https://aur.archlinux.org/tu/?id=81 Regards, Felix Yan
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