On 11/13/20 8:52 AM, Remi Gacogne via aur-general wrote: > Hello everyone, > > My name is Remi Gacogne, and I hereby apply to join the Trusted Users > team, kindly sponsored by Levente Polyak and Morten Linderud. > > I'm 37 years old and live in Paris, France. My journey with Linux > started around 1999 with Mandrake, quickly replaced by Slackware which > has been my favourite distribution until I fell in love with Arch, > around 2009. Since then I have been involved in several aspects of the > life of the Arch community like the wiki and the bug tracker [1], but my > main contributions have been to the security team, often bugging you > folks with security issues in your packages :) You can find me on > Freenode and OFTC under the nick of rgacogne. > > I have contributed to many FOSS projects over the years, mainly by > writing and fixing C, C++ and Python code, hopefully not introducing too > many bugs in the process. Some of them can be found on my GitHub profile > [2]. I have held positions as a sysadmin, security engineer and software > engineer in the past, and am currently working for the PowerDNS [3] > open-source company as a software engineer. > > In my spare time I enjoy climbing, hiking, paragliding and trail > running, as well as drinking beers. I'm also involved in a few > non-profit organisations, far away from computers. > > I am currently maintaining a few packages in the AUR [4], although most > of the popular ones I used to maintain having been moved to community by > existing TUs along the way, with my blessing and gratitude. As a TU I > would like to move two of the remaining ones to community: > - bgpq3 > - dnsdist > > My main motivation for becoming a TU is however not to move those, but > to relieve the workload of other TUs by helping maintain and/or adopting > existing community packages. For obvious reasons I have already > discussed adopting the powerdns and powerdns-recursor packages from > anthraxx, but I would also be interested in adopting some orphans here > and there, like for example hiredis, libopenraw and nsd. I should also > mention that being a TU would be very useful to my work on the security > team, since I would then be able to help fix critically vulnerable packages. > My preferred, old-fashioned, way of keeping track of packages updates is > to subscribe to mailing-lists, but I have come to appreciate the use of > tools like nvchecker in doing so as well :) > > Cheers, > > Remi > > [1]: https://bugs.archlinux.org/user/9172 > [2]: https://github.com/rgacogne > [3]: https://www.powerdns.com > [4]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=rgacogne >
I hereby confirm my sponsorship of Remi :) Basically the same story as Morten mentioned, we also first met in meat space during the Chaos Communication Congress, however he did not thought that i was jelle as well :P I got to know him on multiple real life and virtual occasions as a very friendly and kind person with a profound technical knowledge and lot of contributions. I have no doubt that we will be a valuable Trusted User and strengthen our team -- and on top will gain a bit more scope of action for the Security Team duties. Let the discussion period officially begin :) cheers, Levente
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