Re: [aur-general] TU application - bastelfreak

[Christian Rebischke via aur-general]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 05:39:41PM +0200, Discussion about the Arch User 
Repository (AUR) wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm Tim Meusel and I want to spent more time in the Arch Linux community
> and increase the package quality. I first got in touch with open source
> some years ago in the Puppet Community [0] where I started to love
> Puppet and FOSS. At the moment I'm employed at a big ISP where I
> maintain a few thousand systems. My solution of choice for configuration
> management is Puppet because it fulfills all requirements and is easy to
> extend. For a few projects I require up2date systems with modern
> software, that's why i choose Arch Linux. Since Puppet was already
> present in the company, the Arch Linux boxes were puppetized as well. I
> wrote or contributed to multiple packages related to Puppet on Arch
> Linux. foxxx0 and shibumi were so kind to continue maintaining them
> in the official repositories:
> [...]


Hi everybody,
Thank you for the discussions in the last 14 days.
The discussion period is officially over.

Please cast your vote:

https://aur.archlinux.org/tu/?id=124

best wishes and stay healthy

chris / shibumi


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Re: [aur-general] TU application - bastelfreak

[Tim Meusel via aur-general]

Hi,

On 02.11.20 05:31, Brett Cornwall wrote:
> On 2020-10-18 17:39, Tim Meusel via aur-general wrote:
>> [...]
> 
> It's great that you'd like to improve the quality of the Ruby ecosystem!
> Do you have any experience with documentation? I think it'd be nice to
> have someone experienced make sure the Ruby/Puppet documentation is up
> to snuff.

I think writing documentation is an essential part of maintaining
packages or any open source project. Nobody will use a project, no
matter how good it is, if it's lacking documentation. I am confident
enough to document Arch Linux related stuff about Puppet/facter/choria.
I don't have the same amount of experience with Ruby applications in
general, I'm mostly following what anthraxx recommended me as packaging
guidelines. But I'm happy to keep the documentation up2date as well and
write down some common pitfalls and best practices.

> Are you also interested in maintaining any other types of packages, or
> only the Ruby ecosystem?

Interested? Yes! Do I have enough time to do it properly? I don't know.
I'm also interested in some of the tools from the CNCF landscape,
luckily shibumi already started packaging some of them. I don't know yet
with how many dependencies I end up with, if the Puppet tools are
properly packaged. If there is spare time left I'm happy to also
maintain other packages.

Cheers, Tim



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