On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 11:34:34PM +0100, Jakub Klinkovský wrote: > Hey everyone, I'm sending my application to become a package maintainer, > which is kindly sponsored by Sven (svenstaro) and Frederik (freswa). > > ## Who I am > > My name is Jakub, but I'm mostly known as Lahwaacz online. I've been an Arch > wiki admin since 2014 and also created the man.archlinux.org project. > > In real life, I have scientific background and I'm interested in > programming, automation and infrastructure. I write Python, C++ and CUDA (no > Rust yet :-(). > > ## What I want to do > > I want to help with package maintenance in two general areas that are > closest to me: > > 1. Due to my background, I'm using many weird scientific packages (almost) > daily, including cuda, openmpi, vtk, paraview and more. Most of these are > notorious for breaking often and I'd have to deal with this anyway, so I > might as well directly co-maintain them. > > 2. As a wiki admin I could co-maintain some wiki-related packages, both for > users and for backend deployment. The Arch wiki is based on MediaWiki > which is currently deployed from a single git mono-repository that > contains all necessary extensions (either bundled or as git submodules) > but we would like to eventually use Arch packages for MediaWiki and its > extensions. This is a long-term goal for me, however, since I have yet to > learn how to do PHP packaging properly... > > I may find also other areas where to invest my packaging time, but overall I > imagine myself maintaining a small-ish number of packages and focusing on > quality rather than quantity. > > ## Disclaimers > > First, I think it is fair to acknowledge that I do not plan to deal with > handling AUR requests, which is still associated to the role of a package > maintainer. Dealing with the wiki is hard and time consuming in itself and I > don't have the capacity to add another similarly exhausting responsibility. > > I like Python as a language, but I dislike Python packaging and I don't see > myself maintaining many Python packages in the future. I might change my > opinion, though, since I would really love to see jupyterhub in the official > repos: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jupyterhub > > ## My packages > > My AUR packages: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?SeB=m&K=lahwaacz > > I also maintain an unofficial [jlk] repo which contains many other AUR > packages that I use: https://jlk.fjfi.cvut.cz/arch/repo.html > > Feel free to bombard me with any questions or package reviews :-) > > Best regards, > Jakub / Lahwaacz
I confirm my sponsorship. This marks the beginning of the discussions period which will conclude in two weeks on 2023-11-26. The voting will start on the same day and conclude on 2023-12-03.
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