Re: [aur-general] TU Application
On 28.09.2011 18:50, Bartek Piotrowski wrote: 2011/9/27 Dave Reisner d...@falconindy.com: Thanks for your application. I really only have one question -- what is it you hope to accomplish as a TU? Put differently, why are you applying? I don't really feel that you've answered this question sufficiently in your application. I always wanted to help distribution I'm using. IMO this is partially spirit of Open Source movement. As I wrote before I'm also Debian and Gentoo user, but the first one have crazy packaging system, second - bureaucracy bigger than in Debian. Only Arch I'm using for long time and not as end user. As I wrote before, I want to take some packages in [community], maybe put again alacarte (but modified to work with Xfce) in repository and in general help in maintaining AUR. Bartek Piotrowski We could use somebody who will maintain some of our orphans (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?maintainer=orphan). Would you be willing to do that? Is there any general topic of the packages you'd be interested to maintain?
[aur-general] [merge] python-gflags into python2-gflags
i've just renamed python-gflags to python2-gflags since the name reflects more where it can be used thx for merging python-gflags: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41480 python2-gflags: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=52767
Re: [aur-general] TU Application
2011/9/29 Sven-Hendrik Haase s...@lutzhaase.com: We could use somebody who will maintain some of our orphans (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?maintainer=orphan). Would you be willing to do that? Is there any general topic of the packages you'd be interested to maintain? As in first message, from [community] I will take simple-scan and mpdscribble. If I can choose some packages from [extra], it will be fsarchiver, lua and hplip. I think there is no general topic - I want to take packages which I'm using. Bartek Piotrowski
Re: [aur-general] TU Application
2011/9/29 Bartek Piotrowski barthal...@gmail.com: 2011/9/29 Sven-Hendrik Haase s...@lutzhaase.com: We could use somebody who will maintain some of our orphans (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?maintainer=orphan). Would you be willing to do that? Is there any general topic of the packages you'd be interested to maintain? As in first message, from [community] I will take simple-scan and mpdscribble. If I can choose some packages from [extra], it will be fsarchiver, lua and hplip. I think there is no general topic - I want to take packages which I'm using. Bartek Piotrowski Which is the correct attitude, not just adopting packages 'just because' .. Good luck on your application. -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Developer / Trusted User Linux Counter: #359909 http://www.angvp.com
[aur-general] Orphan request: wdfs
I'm willing to maintain the wdfs [1] package. The current owner has not responded to requests for over a year now, I've sent him an email 10 days ago, there is no reply. Please orphan the package. Thanks in advance. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14476
Re: [aur-general] TU Application
Le 27 Septembre 2011 18:02:51 Bartek Piotrowski a écrit : Hi, Part (Mateusz Herych) decided to sponsor my TU application. My name is Bartłomiej Piotrowski. I live in Szczecin (Poland). I learn and work here. I'm a Linux user since 2005 when I bought Suse 9.3 on 4 CDs. My hardware was too cheap to run it comfortably, so I gave up. I changed my computer in 2008, and after a year with Ubuntu and Debian I decided to install Arch. Arch is a perfect distro for me for many reasons - it has clean dependencies, it's bleeding edge and I don't need to compile anything (but if I want, it's not a problem). I forgot to mention KISS and the great community. It's just obvious to me. ;) I maintain 21 packages in AUR[1]. Only 3 were submitted by me, and the rest was orphaned and/or untidy - corrected by me, now they follow packaging guidelines. Every package has some votes and is tested on my machines. One of them, mplayer2[2] was taken to [community] by Stéphane Gaudreault. I was also contributing to it from time to time. I'm a coordinator and (the only one) Polish translator of Arch projects in Transifex[3]. Pacman translation is not ready for the 4.0 release yet, and I hope it will be done in some time. I had to skip dev/TU specific strings in my AUR translation - it's hard to translate something without knowledge about context. I help people from the Polish community board. When Polish Wiki works (now it doesn't), I translate small articles. I know basics of C, C++ and Perl, but I'm not a programmer. I juggle between school and sysadmin job in a small hosting[4]/shell[5] company. (We currently work on the website.) I (co)administer 5 machines, 4 Debian ones (2x hosting, Nagios, and Xen) and 1 Gentoo one (shell). If I become a TU I would be interested in adopting simple-scan and mpdscribble in [community]. That's all, I hope I mentioned everything. Bartek Piotrowski [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=mL=2K=Barthalion [2] https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk?h=packages /mplayer2 [3] https://www.transifex.net/accounts/profile/Barthalion/ [4] http://host.org.pl/ [5] http://shell.org.pl/ I had the opportunity to collaborate a few times with Bartek. I think he has the required technical skills, but also (and most importantly) the right attitude. I think that he would be a great addition to the TU team. Stéphane
Re: [aur-general] TU Application
Hi, Thanks for applying. The AUR packages looks good to me. (host.org.pl and shell.org.pl gives a 404, btw). -- Best of luck, Alexander Rødseth (xyproto on IRC, trontonic on AUR)
Re: [aur-general] Orphan request: wdfs
On 29.09.2011 16:25, SanskritFritz wrote: I'm willing to maintain the wdfs [1] package. The current owner has not responded to requests for over a year now, I've sent him an email 10 days ago, there is no reply. Please orphan the package. Thanks in advance. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14476 done -- Florian Pritz signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [aur-general] Putting mariadb into community
On 28/09/11 16:26, Massimiliano Torromeo wrote: Hi. Being a sysadmin with a lot of experience on database servers I thought I would share my experience on this case. I'm using mariadb as a MySQL replacement on a few servers using a custom package[1] that uses standard mysql paths and configurations. I've had a few inconsistencies with mysql in certain cases. MariaDB seemed to be afflicted by old bugs that were fixed on MySQL. On the other hand I never had a problem using percona-server [2], even though it took me a while to tweak the package to be a functional replacement. Obviously the tipycal environments in which I deployed this servers do not cover all possible situations. For instance, I don't know if they play nicely with kde (amarok uses an embedded mysql server, akonadi spawns a mysql server to store its data). [1] https://github.com/mtorromeo/archlinux-packages/tree/master/mariadb-mysql-replacement [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40803 The percona-server package looks great, and I'd be interested to see it in the repos. However, may I ask why it depends on mysql-clients instead of keeping its own client utilities? Is it done for compatibility reasons?
Re: [aur-general] Orphan request: wdfs
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Florian Pritz bluew...@xinu.at wrote: On 29.09.2011 16:25, SanskritFritz wrote: I'm willing to maintain the wdfs [1] package. The current owner has not responded to requests for over a year now, I've sent him an email 10 days ago, there is no reply. Please orphan the package. Thanks in advance. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14476 done Thanks. lol, dserban adopted it before me :)
Re: [aur-general] Putting mariadb into community
AFAIK percona only modifies the server component. The server speaks the same protocol as the official MySQL distribution, so it is fully compatible with libraries and tools that have already been deployed. This being the case I thought it didn't really make any sense to have a practically identical package as mysql-clients. My experience using percona with mysql-clients has been flawless up till now. On Thursday, September 29, 2011, Evangelos Foutras wrote: On 28/09/11 16:26, Massimiliano Torromeo wrote: Hi. Being a sysadmin with a lot of experience on database servers I thought I would share my experience on this case. I'm using mariadb as a MySQL replacement on a few servers using a custom package[1] that uses standard mysql paths and configurations. I've had a few inconsistencies with mysql in certain cases. MariaDB seemed to be afflicted by old bugs that were fixed on MySQL. On the other hand I never had a problem using percona-server [2], even though it took me a while to tweak the package to be a functional replacement. Obviously the tipycal environments in which I deployed this servers do not cover all possible situations. For instance, I don't know if they play nicely with kde (amarok uses an embedded mysql server, akonadi spawns a mysql server to store its data). [1] https://github.com/mtorromeo/archlinux-packages/tree/master/mariadb-mysql-replacement [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40803 The percona-server package looks great, and I'd be interested to see it in the repos. However, may I ask why it depends on mysql-clients instead of keeping its own client utilities? Is it done for compatibility reasons?
