Re: [aur-general] TU application: Chris Brannon
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:35:27 -0500 Chris Brannon wrote: > Hello everyone! > I wish to become an ArchLinux Trusted User. To that end, here > is a bit of information pertaining to me. > > I started using Linux in the summer of 2000. Before that time, I used > Unix shell accounts offered by various Internet service providers. > I've been using some flavor of *nix since 1995. > I'm blind, and I've always worked from a text console. Dialup Unix > shell accounts had mostly vanished by 2000, so I installed Slackware. > > I used Slackware until early 2007, and I learned a great deal about > Linux in the process. I could describe my reasons for dropping > Slackware, but I won't. It's a fine distribution, and the answer to > the "which distribution is best" question is mostly subjective. > After looking at several distros, I settled on Arch in September > of 2008. Moving to Arch was easy for me, because of my years of > experience with Slackware. > > Currently, I maintain 8 packages in unsupported, and this number is > growing. See the following URL for my work: > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=cmb > My username on the BBS, AUR, and wiki is cmb. > > I want to do my part to make ArchLinux more accessible to the blind. > My first order of business is to submit two packages to the community > repository: speakup and espeakup. > These two packages provide one reliable method of supplying spoken > output from the text console under Linux. > > I will endeavor to faithfully represent the interests of the whole > ArchLinux user community, not just those of the tiny subset who are > blind. > > Allan McRae is my sponsor. Thank you Allan. > > With kind regards, > -- Chris I think that anyone who can help to make arch more accessible is very welcome, maybe you could even help with the installer for blind people. Judging from your PKGBUILDs your packages aren't trivial but you seem to manage. Best luck, Philipp
Re: [aur-general] Request: Delete/rename mislabeled "rudl" package
2009/3/17, Henning Bekel : > If you agree, please remove it, and I'll upload a properly named package. Done. -- Arch Linux Developer (voidnull) AUR & Pacman Italian Translations Microdia Developer http://www.archlinux.it
[aur-general] Request: Delete/rename mislabeled "rudl" package
I maintain an package called "rudl" in unsupported. It provides ruby bindings to SDL, and it's a nice (more ruby-ish) alternative to ruby-sdl. I simply called it "rudl" back then, but now I think it should be renamed to "ruby-rudl", following the naming scheme other ruby packages use. If you agree, please remove it, and I'll upload a properly named package. Henning
Re: [aur-general] TU application: Chris Brannon
Chris Brannon wrote: Hello everyone! I wish to become an ArchLinux Trusted User. To that end, here is a bit of information pertaining to me. I started using Linux in the summer of 2000. Before that time, I used Unix shell accounts offered by various Internet service providers. I've been using some flavor of *nix since 1995. I'm blind, and I've always worked from a text console. Dialup Unix shell accounts had mostly vanished by 2000, so I installed Slackware. I used Slackware until early 2007, and I learned a great deal about Linux in the process. I could describe my reasons for dropping Slackware, but I won't. It's a fine distribution, and the answer to the "which distribution is best" question is mostly subjective. After looking at several distros, I settled on Arch in September of 2008. Moving to Arch was easy for me, because of my years of experience with Slackware. Currently, I maintain 8 packages in unsupported, and this number is growing. See the following URL for my work: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=cmb My username on the BBS, AUR, and wiki is cmb. I want to do my part to make ArchLinux more accessible to the blind. My first order of business is to submit two packages to the community repository: speakup and espeakup. These two packages provide one reliable method of supplying spoken output from the text console under Linux. I will endeavor to faithfully represent the interests of the whole ArchLinux user community, not just those of the tiny subset who are blind. Allan McRae is my sponsor. Thank you Allan. With kind regards, -- Chris And here is my offical sponsorship message. Let the discussion period "begin"... Allan
Re: [aur-general] Request: Delete duplicate package libdb-ruby
Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: ruby-bdb and libdb-ruby are effectively the same. I suggest the removal of libdb-ruby because it got there two years later and its PKGBUILD is a little off. I agree with your reasoning and deleted libdb-ruby. (Plus, ruby-bdb has 7 votes --compared to 0 for libdb-ruby-- and another package depends on it)
[aur-general] Request: Delete duplicate package libdb-ruby
ruby-bdb and libdb-ruby are effectively the same. I suggest the removal of libdb-ruby because it got there two years later and its PKGBUILD is a little off. Also, 'libdb' is Debian style and I don't think we want that here :P
Re: [aur-general] TU application: Chris Brannon
That's quite an amazing feat, to seem to have more clarity, understanding, and dedication than a great deal of people who can see. Thanks. -Andrei "Garoth" Thorp On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Loui Chang wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:35:27AM -0500, Chris Brannon wrote: >> I want to do my part to make ArchLinux more accessible to the blind. >> My first order of business is to submit two packages to the community >> repository: speakup and espeakup. >> These two packages provide one reliable method of supplying spoken output >> from >> the text console under Linux. >> >> I will endeavor to faithfully represent the interests of the whole >> ArchLinux user community, not just those of the tiny subset who are blind. > > Those are some awesome objectives. > I haven't tried any of your packages, but your packaging looks good by > looking at the scripts. > Good luck! > >
Re: [aur-general] [PATCH] initial support for any architecture.
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Abhishek Dasgupta wrote: > 2009/3/12 Abhishek Dasgupta : >> 2009/3/11 Aaron Griffin : >>> Fixed that. Do you have a public git repo anywhere where I could pull >>> patches from? It would make this easier. If not, that's fine >> >> http://abhidg.mine.nu/gitweb/?p=dbscripts.git;a=summary >> > > My home server is sometimes down due to network outage, > so I've pushed the repository to github as well: > http://github.com/abhidg/dbscripts Finally pulled in the last patch there into my any-arch branch. I'm not sure how I feel about it, seeing as it duplicates a lot of work (I was hoping to reuse the loop somehow), but it seems ok otherwise. Now we just need to make sure db-move and db-remove can handle "any" packages
Re: [aur-general] TU application: Chris Brannon
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:35:27AM -0500, Chris Brannon wrote: > I want to do my part to make ArchLinux more accessible to the blind. > My first order of business is to submit two packages to the community > repository: speakup and espeakup. > These two packages provide one reliable method of supplying spoken output from > the text console under Linux. > > I will endeavor to faithfully represent the interests of the whole > ArchLinux user community, not just those of the tiny subset who are blind. Those are some awesome objectives. I haven't tried any of your packages, but your packaging looks good by looking at the scripts. Good luck!
Re: [aur-general] TU application: Chris Brannon
I agree, you're an inspiration to all of us :) On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Daenyth Blank > wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:35, Chris Brannon wrote: > > Hello everyone! > > I wish to become an ArchLinux Trusted User. To that end, here > > is a bit of information pertaining to me. > > > > I started using Linux in the summer of 2000. Before that time, I used > > Unix shell accounts offered by various Internet service providers. > > I've been using some flavor of *nix since 1995. > > I'm blind, and I've always worked from a text console. Dialup Unix shell > > accounts had mostly vanished by 2000, so I installed Slackware. > > > > I used Slackware until early 2007, and I learned a great deal about Linux > > in the process. I could describe my reasons for dropping Slackware, but > > I won't. It's a fine distribution, and the answer to the "which > distribution > > is best" question is mostly subjective. > > After looking at several distros, I settled on Arch in September > > of 2008. Moving to Arch was easy for me, because of my years of > experience > > with Slackware. > > > > Currently, I maintain 8 packages in unsupported, and this number is > growing. > > See the following URL for my work: > > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=cmb > > My username on the BBS, AUR, and wiki is cmb. > > > > I want to do my part to make ArchLinux more accessible to the blind. > > My first order of business is to submit two packages to the community > > repository: speakup and espeakup. > > These two packages provide one reliable method of supplying spoken output > from > > the text console under Linux. > > > > I will endeavor to faithfully represent the interests of the whole > > ArchLinux user community, not just those of the tiny subset who are > blind. > > > > Allan McRae is my sponsor. Thank you Allan. > > > > With kind regards, > > -- Chris > > > > Excellent! I'm thrilled that you're applying, and I think you'll be a > very valuable addition to the team >
Re: [aur-general] TU application: Chris Brannon
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:35, Chris Brannon wrote: > Hello everyone! > I wish to become an ArchLinux Trusted User. To that end, here > is a bit of information pertaining to me. > > I started using Linux in the summer of 2000. Before that time, I used > Unix shell accounts offered by various Internet service providers. > I've been using some flavor of *nix since 1995. > I'm blind, and I've always worked from a text console. Dialup Unix shell > accounts had mostly vanished by 2000, so I installed Slackware. > > I used Slackware until early 2007, and I learned a great deal about Linux > in the process. I could describe my reasons for dropping Slackware, but > I won't. It's a fine distribution, and the answer to the "which distribution > is best" question is mostly subjective. > After looking at several distros, I settled on Arch in September > of 2008. Moving to Arch was easy for me, because of my years of experience > with Slackware. > > Currently, I maintain 8 packages in unsupported, and this number is growing. > See the following URL for my work: > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=cmb > My username on the BBS, AUR, and wiki is cmb. > > I want to do my part to make ArchLinux more accessible to the blind. > My first order of business is to submit two packages to the community > repository: speakup and espeakup. > These two packages provide one reliable method of supplying spoken output from > the text console under Linux. > > I will endeavor to faithfully represent the interests of the whole > ArchLinux user community, not just those of the tiny subset who are blind. > > Allan McRae is my sponsor. Thank you Allan. > > With kind regards, > -- Chris > Excellent! I'm thrilled that you're applying, and I think you'll be a very valuable addition to the team
Re: [aur-general] TU application: Chris Brannon
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Chris Brannon wrote: > Hello everyone! > I wish to become an ArchLinux Trusted User. To that end, here > is a bit of information pertaining to me. > > I started using Linux in the summer of 2000. Before that time, I used > Unix shell accounts offered by various Internet service providers. > I've been using some flavor of *nix since 1995. > I'm blind, and I've always worked from a text console. Dialup Unix shell > accounts had mostly vanished by 2000, so I installed Slackware. > > I used Slackware until early 2007, and I learned a great deal about Linux > in the process. I could describe my reasons for dropping Slackware, but > I won't. It's a fine distribution, and the answer to the "which distribution > is best" question is mostly subjective. > After looking at several distros, I settled on Arch in September > of 2008. Moving to Arch was easy for me, because of my years of experience > with Slackware. > > Currently, I maintain 8 packages in unsupported, and this number is growing. > See the following URL for my work: > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=cmb > My username on the BBS, AUR, and wiki is cmb. > > I want to do my part to make ArchLinux more accessible to the blind. > My first order of business is to submit two packages to the community > repository: speakup and espeakup. > These two packages provide one reliable method of supplying spoken output from > the text console under Linux. > > I will endeavor to faithfully represent the interests of the whole > ArchLinux user community, not just those of the tiny subset who are blind. > > Allan McRae is my sponsor. Thank you Allan. > > With kind regards, > -- Chris > Good! I am glad to read this, I support you, even if I am not part of the team right now, thanks for collaborating with Arch Linux, to my ex-mates, this guy will be a really good addition for the team :-), he deserves the opportunity -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Linux Counter: #359909
[aur-general] TU application: Chris Brannon
Hello everyone! I wish to become an ArchLinux Trusted User. To that end, here is a bit of information pertaining to me. I started using Linux in the summer of 2000. Before that time, I used Unix shell accounts offered by various Internet service providers. I've been using some flavor of *nix since 1995. I'm blind, and I've always worked from a text console. Dialup Unix shell accounts had mostly vanished by 2000, so I installed Slackware. I used Slackware until early 2007, and I learned a great deal about Linux in the process. I could describe my reasons for dropping Slackware, but I won't. It's a fine distribution, and the answer to the "which distribution is best" question is mostly subjective. After looking at several distros, I settled on Arch in September of 2008. Moving to Arch was easy for me, because of my years of experience with Slackware. Currently, I maintain 8 packages in unsupported, and this number is growing. See the following URL for my work: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=cmb My username on the BBS, AUR, and wiki is cmb. I want to do my part to make ArchLinux more accessible to the blind. My first order of business is to submit two packages to the community repository: speakup and espeakup. These two packages provide one reliable method of supplying spoken output from the text console under Linux. I will endeavor to faithfully represent the interests of the whole ArchLinux user community, not just those of the tiny subset who are blind. Allan McRae is my sponsor. Thank you Allan. With kind regards, -- Chris
