On 8/15/18 9:10 PM, Chih-Hsuan Yen via aur-general wrote: > Hi all, > > My name is Chih-Hsuan Yen. I'm also known as yan12125. > > I am applying to be a Trusted User with Felix Yan's sponsorship. > > I'm currently a PhD student in Taiwan. My Linux journey started when I > met Ubuntu in 2011. Soon after that, I jumped to Arch Linux in 2012 for > its simplicity. During my spare time, I'm active in open source stuffs. > You may find some interesting bits on my GitHub [1] and GitLab [2] accounts. > > Most of my Arch contributions can be found on AUR [3]. Besides that, I'm > also an Arch Linux tester and a member of Arch Linux China community, > keeping some binary packages in the unofficial repo [archlinuxcn] > up-to-date [4]. > > If I'm accepted as a TU, I'd like to improve the ecosystem for Arch > users speaking Chinese. Specifically, I'll keep an eye on Chinese IME > (Input Method Engine) and font packages, including but not limited to > the following ones: > > - libchewing - the core library for a Chinese input method "Chewing" > - scim-chewing - the SCIM adaptor for the chewing input method > - ttf-arphic-ukai - a popular font in Taiwan > - ttf-arphic-uming - another popular font in Taiwan > > Both libchewing and scim-chewing are in [extra] now. As they have no > other reverse dependencies in [extra], I assume it's possible to move > them to [community] for further maintenance. > > Also, as a Python developer, I'm interesting in making Python packages > in Arch Linux even better. I'd like to bring the following packages to > [community]: > > - buildbot - the main program of a continuous integration framework [5] > - buildbot-worker - running commands dispatched by the master > - > python-buildbot-{www,console-view,grid-view,waterfall-view,wsgi-dashboards,badges} > - buildbot plugins > - python-buildbot-pkg - an auxiliary package for building buildbot > plugins from sources. I'll create a stable version from my > buildbot-pkg-git package. > - > python-{aws-xray-sdk,jsondiff,klein,moto,nose-random,pathlib2,pyjade,setuptools-trial,txrequests} > - direct or indirect runtime/build-time/check-time dependencies for > buildbot-related packages > > I'd like to improve dependency handling for Python packages in Namcap as > well. > > Furthermore, I'm interested in move some other useful packages to > [community]. Here are some packages coming out of my head: > > - pcmanx-gtk2 - A popular BBS/Telnet client in Taiwan (29 votes on AUR) > - qps - the GUI process monitor recommended by LXQt (2% on pkgstats) > - cmst - a Qt frontend for connman recommended by LXQt (49 votes on AUR) > > I'd like to stop here. Thanks for reading such a long mail. I'm > passionately looking forward an oppurtunity to extend my Arch > contributions to a new scope! > > Regards, > > Chih-Hsuan Yen > > [1] https://github.com/yan12125 > [2] https://gitlab.com/yan12125 > [3] > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&SeB=M&K=yan12125&SB=p&SO=d&PP=50&do_Search=Go > [4] > https://github.com/archlinuxcn/repo/blob/80adbb5dbee28591f95babf4aed91b0791dc6e3a/nvchecker.ini#L2531-L2617 > [5] https://buildbot.net/ >
I confirm my sponsorship. Let the discussion begin! -- Regards, Felix Yan
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