Sorry for the top-posting, but this guy is one of my heroes, get a +1 from an ex TU/dev :-) who cannot have a valid vote tho, hehe, good luck!
On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 4:16 AM Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone. > > I'm Carsten - or Raster. > > Sponsors: eschwartz and shibumi agreed to +1 me > > I'm upstream founder of enlightenment, EFL, terminology and a few other > things. > I work at Arm in Cambridge, UK (and live here). I've been involved in OSS > and > releasing software since like 1995/96 or so for Linux (And other Unixen at > the > time). I've worked on several distributions - RedHat, Debian (made custom > variant, not upstream) and Tizen. I pretty much eat, breathe and sleep C, > and > of course that comes with the requisite "I can drive a shell script off a > cliff > gracefully" developer skill-set. Linux is my OS. I don't dual boot. All my > machines are Linux machines without booting into anything else and that's > been > the way for me for me since I got my first PC in 1996 after I had to give > up on > the Amiga. This PC then ran just Linux and nothing else (never saw a DOS or > Windows install). In fact all but 2 of my machines are Arch Linux > (Rockpro64 dev > board (debian SID) and my Ampere Emag aarch64 workstation (Ubuntu), my > pinephone has Manjaro for now which is kind-of-close to Arch...). > > I already maintain the AUR packages for efl-git, enlightenment-git, > rage-git, > efl-git-asan, enlightenment-git-asan and have for a long while now (also > co-maintain terminology-git). You can see that I'm responsive to issues > people > bring up and fix them pretty fast. I have done some edits to the arch wiki > as > well over time. > > I will admit - I haven't really touched the Arch forums... I'm really an > IRC/Email person, but I am on #archlinux, #archlinux-offtopic (and > #archlinux-arm) most of the time. > > I've been using arch as my primary/only distro now for maybe about 4-5 > years. > I like its simplicity and "don't patch/modify things from upstream unless > absolutely needed" policy (as an upstream I smile warmly at this > direction). > It's very developer friendly... and that's who I am. I also run ALARM on my > Rapsberry Pis. > > I do spend most of my effort on the upstream work on these E related > projects > as those are what I write, release, add features to and fix bugs in. > > I'm about as googlable as it gets: > > ras...@rasterman.com > http://www.rasterman.com > > I know that there are a lot of packages to maintain for a very small > number of > people, so I'm happy to help out. > > I'd be best at taking over or being co-maintainer of: > > * efl > * enlightenment > * terminology > > Other packages I can add to community: > > * rage (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rage - i maintain rage-git > already) > * evisum (https://www.enlightenment.org/news/2020-06-07-evisum-05-release) > > And in future any others that I think are past the bar of "worth including > in > Arch community rather than AUR" over time (there are ones brewing or > lurking > like EDI https://www.enlightenment.org/about-edi, Ephoto > https://www.enlightenment.org/about-ephoto, Enventor > https://www.enlightenment.org/about-enventor) > > I'd also be happy to help maintain packages I know I depend on and work > with > that might be a bit niche like: > > * packagekit > * ddcutil > > And in general just help attack anything that I know enough about to be a > bit > better than a bowl of dried up custard at that is in my general sphere of > knowledge/use. > > My PGP key hash: 04F7A0E31E08D3E08D39AFEBD147F94364295E8C > http://keys.gnupg.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD147F94364295E8C > > Looking forward to pitching in and making Arch better :) > > -- > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com >