On 2017-12-13 13:57, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote: > Hello, all. :) > > My name is Eli Schwartz, better known as eschwartz on the forums[1], > AUR[2], bugtracker[3], wiki[4] general mailing lists, IRC, and generally > everywhere I can stick my nose in. With the aid of Bartłomiej > Piotrowski, I am applying today to become a TU. > > I'm 24 years old, and currently studying Computer Science in the United > States. > > I've been interested in Linux ever since I was first introduced to it in > high school, when I asked "what would be the best Linux distro to > install if I really want to learn how things work", and I was > recommended to try out Arch Linux. It's a choice I haven't regretted since! > Outside of Linux my main hobby is books/ebooks (primarily SF&F of all > sorts). I have leveraged this nicely to feed back into software which > deals with ebooks. :) > > ... > > I've now been an active member of the Arch Linux community for > approximately 3.5 years, and in that time I've become a member of the > Arch Bug Wranglers team, given an Arch Classroom tutorial[5], > contributed a few small patches to various Arch projects, mainly > pacman[6], and generally hung out on the forums and in IRC, trying to be > helpful. Recently I've been doing a bit of general helping out in > #archlinux-reproducible[7] as well. > > I've always been especially interested in packaging for Arch Linux, and > have reviewed many PKGBUILDs on this mailing list as well as in the AUR > Issues, Discussion & PKGBUILD Requests subforum and in #archlinux-aur, > written a popular script for maintaining AUR packages[8], and featured > the topic of packaging for Arch Linux in the above-mentioned Arch > Classroom tutorial. I anticipate doing all^W^W^Wmost of this in a > somewhat more formal role. :) > > I would like to become a TU in order to contribute more to Arch Linux in > general (because it would be a shame to miss out on one particular angle > I guess). It would also give me more scope to help fix simple packaging > bugs that come up on the bugtracker, help resolve some policy TODOs[9], > fix packages which no longer build due to e.g. missing sources (many > such packages have been discovered in part due to the valiant efforts of > Reproducible Arch Linux and Arch Linux 32), and of course to bring some > packages to [community] that I feel would do well there. > > If given the opportunity, I would consider bringing the following > packages to community: > - firefox-extension-https-everywhere (I conmaintain this) > - fanficfare (I maintain this) > - git-crypt > - advancecomp > - llpp > - wikicurses > - ghi > - dtrx > - checkbashisms > > I would adopt the cinnamon desktop packages, as faidoc is not very > active currently and arojas, who currently builds them, says he'd prefer > someone who actually uses it to do so. > I've also received permission to comaintain sigil and qbittorrent, as > well as calibre and its dependencies (I maintain the -git packages for > all three in the AUR, and have contributed most of the calibre PKGBUILD > as well). > > [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=84187 > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=M&SB=n&K=Eschwartz > [3] https://bugs.archlinux.org/?project=0&do=user&id=19965 > [4] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Special:Contributions/Eschwartz > [5] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Classroom#Previous_classes > [6] https://github.com/eli-schwartz/pacman/commits/queue?author=eli-schwartz > [7] https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/archlinux/archlinux.html > [8] https://github.com/eli-schwartz/pkgbuilds > [9] https://www.archlinux.org/todo/ >
I'm happy to confirm that I do sponsor Eli's application. Happy discussing! Bartłomiej