[aur-general] TU application: Jan Steffens
Greetings, My name is Jan Alexander Steffens and I'm a 22 year old CS student living in Karlsruhe, Germany. I've been introduced to Linux in high school, where the administration team (which mainly consisted of students) were avid supporters of free software. Since then, I went through quite a few distributions: SuSE, Mandrake, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian. Gentoo was the first distribution that got me interested in getting to know the internals a bit more. About a year ago, a fellow CS student introduced me to Arch. After I blew up my Fedora installation (accidentally wrote to /dev/root), I chose to give Arch a try. I got hooked. Its simplicity really makes it a joy to tinker with. :) Especially creating packages and offering them to others (AUR) is something Arch made easy. I currently run two Arch systems, one on my laptop and one on a headless box mainly acting as a router. Both are getting packages from [testing]. Arch is the first distribution I actually started contributing back to. I began frequenting the Archlinux channels on Freenode, now and then helping out others and asking my own questions. I reported bugs I found, and I uploaded and maintain 15 packages in the AUR [1]. I use Pulseaudio on my laptop: Some of my packages in the AUR center on it, and I gave the wiki page on Pulseaudio an overhaul. I'm interested in taking over maintenance of the pulseaudio packages in [community] and improve Pulseaudio on Arch Linux. A few days ago, I finally got up the nerve to write about my gripes with the gvim package and propose a solution [2]. I was overwhelmed with the positive response. Now Dan Griffiths approached me and offered to sponsor my application as a TU. Thank you, Dan. I hope I'm getting accepted as TU and we can work together on improving this great distribution. :-) Regards, Jan "heftig" Steffens 1: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=heftig 2: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19087
Re: [aur-general] TU application: Jan Steffens
On 04/19/10 at 08:20am, Jan Steffens wrote: > Greetings, > > My name is Jan Alexander Steffens and I'm a 22 year old CS student > living in Karlsruhe, Germany. > > I've been introduced to Linux in high school, where the administration > team (which mainly consisted of students) were avid supporters of free > software. > > Since then, I went through quite a few distributions: SuSE, Mandrake, > Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian. Gentoo was the first distribution that got me > interested in getting to know the internals a bit more. About a year > ago, a fellow CS student introduced me to Arch. After I blew up my > Fedora installation (accidentally wrote to /dev/root), I chose to give > Arch a try. I got hooked. Its simplicity really makes it a joy to tinker > with. :) Especially creating packages and offering them to others (AUR) > is something Arch made easy. > > I currently run two Arch systems, one on my laptop and one on a headless > box mainly acting as a router. Both are getting packages from [testing]. > > Arch is the first distribution I actually started contributing back to. > I began frequenting the Archlinux channels on Freenode, now and then > helping out others and asking my own questions. I reported bugs I found, > and I uploaded and maintain 15 packages in the AUR [1]. > > I use Pulseaudio on my laptop: Some of my packages in the AUR center on > it, and I gave the wiki page on Pulseaudio an overhaul. I'm interested > in taking over maintenance of the pulseaudio packages in [community] and > improve Pulseaudio on Arch Linux. > > A few days ago, I finally got up the nerve to write about my gripes with > the gvim package and propose a solution [2]. I was overwhelmed with the > positive response. Now Dan Griffiths approached me and offered to > sponsor my application as a TU. Thank you, Dan. > > I hope I'm getting accepted as TU and we can work together on improving > this great distribution. :-) > > Regards, > Jan "heftig" Steffens > > > 1: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=heftig > 2: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19087 > > I'm happy to sponser Jan in his efforts to become a Trusted User! He has repeatedly shown an aptitude for helping users in IRC, and while he currently maintains only a few packages in AUR, those he does maintain are impeccable. He has expressed interest in maintaining the PulseAudio packages in [community] and given our recent losses, I would be happy to hand them off to him. As an active PA user, he is certainly better suited than I to maintain them. His work on the recently updated vim/gvim package greatly increases the efficency and quality of what is traditionally one of our more difficult packages. I believe he would be an asset to the team! Let us begin the discussion period! --
Re: [aur-general] TU application: Jan Steffens
Excerpts from Jan Steffens's message of 2010-04-19 08:20:53 +0200: > Greetings, > > My name is Jan Alexander Steffens and I'm a 22 year old CS student > living in Karlsruhe, Germany. > > I've been introduced to Linux in high school, where the administration > team (which mainly consisted of students) were avid supporters of free > software. > > Since then, I went through quite a few distributions: SuSE, Mandrake, > Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian. Gentoo was the first distribution that got me > interested in getting to know the internals a bit more. About a year > ago, a fellow CS student introduced me to Arch. After I blew up my > Fedora installation (accidentally wrote to /dev/root), I chose to give > Arch a try. I got hooked. Its simplicity really makes it a joy to tinker > with. :) Especially creating packages and offering them to others (AUR) > is something Arch made easy. > > I currently run two Arch systems, one on my laptop and one on a headless > box mainly acting as a router. Both are getting packages from [testing]. > > Arch is the first distribution I actually started contributing back to. > I began frequenting the Archlinux channels on Freenode, now and then > helping out others and asking my own questions. I reported bugs I found, > and I uploaded and maintain 15 packages in the AUR [1]. > > I use Pulseaudio on my laptop: Some of my packages in the AUR center on > it, and I gave the wiki page on Pulseaudio an overhaul. I'm interested > in taking over maintenance of the pulseaudio packages in [community] and > improve Pulseaudio on Arch Linux. > > A few days ago, I finally got up the nerve to write about my gripes with > the gvim package and propose a solution [2]. I was overwhelmed with the > positive response. Now Dan Griffiths approached me and offered to > sponsor my application as a TU. Thank you, Dan. > > I hope I'm getting accepted as TU and we can work together on improving > this great distribution. :-) > > Regards, > Jan "heftig" Steffens > > > 1: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=heftig > 2: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19087 Good luck! Taking on the PA challenge is quite something. Regards, Philipp
Re: [aur-general] TU application: Jan Steffens
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Jan Steffens wrote: > Greetings, > Hi, Good to see another TU application, it has been far too long. > Since then, I went through quite a few distributions: SuSE, Mandrake, > Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian. Gentoo was the first distribution that got me > interested in getting to know the internals a bit more. About a year > ago, a fellow CS student introduced me to Arch. After I blew up my > Fedora installation (accidentally wrote to /dev/root), I chose to give > Arch a try. I got hooked. Its simplicity really makes it a joy to tinker > with. :) Especially creating packages and offering them to others (AUR) > is something Arch made easy. > How long have you been using Arch? > I use Pulseaudio on my laptop: Some of my packages in the AUR center on > it, and I gave the wiki page on Pulseaudio an overhaul. I'm interested > in taking over maintenance of the pulseaudio packages in [community] and > improve Pulseaudio on Arch Linux. > Seems like a good idea. Are you also interested in other audio related packages? > I hope I'm getting accepted as TU and we can work together on improving > this great distribution. :-) > good luck with your application. Ronald
Re: [aur-general] TU application: Jan Steffens
On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 10:52 +0200, Ronald van Haren wrote: > How long have you been using Arch? A bit less than a year. There wasn't much time (about a month, if I recall correctly) between when I first heard of Arch Linux and the death of my Fedora. > Seems like a good idea. Are you also interested in other audio related > packages? Like which? I don't do pro audio work, myself.
Re: [aur-general] TU application: Jan Steffens
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Jan Steffens wrote: > On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 10:52 +0200, Ronald van Haren wrote: >> How long have you been using Arch? > > A bit less than a year. There wasn't much time (about a month, if I > recall correctly) between when I first heard of Arch Linux and the death > of my Fedora. > >> Seems like a good idea. Are you also interested in other audio related >> packages? > > Like which? I don't do pro audio work, myself. > > I believe there was some need for help with audio related packages which currently sit in extra (probably the ones which are orphaned). I don't care much about audio as long as I have some sound, so don't really known the specifics.
Re: [aur-general] TU application: Jan Steffens
On 04/19/10 at 11:32am, Ronald van Haren wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Jan Steffens > wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 10:52 +0200, Ronald van Haren wrote: > >> How long have you been using Arch? > > > > A bit less than a year. There wasn't much time (about a month, if I > > recall correctly) between when I first heard of Arch Linux and the death > > of my Fedora. > > > >> Seems like a good idea. Are you also interested in other audio related > >> packages? > > > > Like which? I don't do pro audio work, myself. > > > > > I believe there was some need for help with audio related packages > which currently sit in extra (probably the ones which are orphaned). I > don't care much about audio as long as I have some sound, so don't > really known the specifics. I adopted many of the audio orphans, although not all of them... He's welcome to them if he gets accepted though. :P I sure don't mind losing a few packages. --
Re: [aur-general] TU application: Jan Steffens
On 04/19/2010 09:20 AM, Jan Steffens wrote: Greetings, hey I hope I'm getting accepted as TU and we can work together on improving this great distribution. :-) i was thinking that nobody wants to contribute to the community since 5 months passed without any applications. Good luck! -- Ionut
Re: [aur-general] TU application: Jan Steffens
On Monday 19 April 2010 08:20:53 Jan Steffens wrote: > A few days ago, I finally got up the nerve to write about my gripes with > the gvim package and propose a solution [2]. I was overwhelmed with the > positive response. Now Dan Griffiths approached me and offered to > sponsor my application as a TU. Thank you, Dan. Nice to see an application again. I read your PKGBUILDs and they look fine; only minor minor things as $pkgname in desc, checksums at the end of PKGBUILD, and I saw that you do not like to quote words in arrays :) Good luck!! -- Andrea Scarpino KDE4 Maintainer for Arch Linux deelab.org/bash
Re: [aur-general] TU application: Jan Steffens
Excerpts from Jan Steffens's message of 2010-04-19 11:16:06 +0200: > > Seems like a good idea. Are you also interested in other audio related > > packages? > > Like which? I don't do pro audio work, myself. Schiv already did some good work in the pro audio section. It's probably more important to have someone take care of desktop audio as it has more users. There might still be something left in to desktop/pro interaction section, by which I mean jack/PA interaction, but I'm not too sure about it. PA seems to work fine on top of jack. I heard from other distros that PA is hard to kill there, and hence it's hard to free the interface for jack, but I don't know whether that's true for Arch. Regards, Philipp
Re: [aur-general] TU application: Jan Steffens
On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 12:23 +0200, Philipp wrote: > I heard from other distros that PA is hard to kill there, and hence > it's hard to free the interface for jack, but I don't know whether > that's true for Arch. >From what I know the problem here is that the client library will start the local server if it's accessed but not running. So e.g. while the GNOME volume control is running or every time an application tries to output an alert sound, the PulseAudio server is restarted. Fortunately this is less of a problem with recent PulseAudio versions, as the server will release the ALSA device if it becomes idle.
Re: [aur-general] TU application: Jan Steffens
Am 19.04.2010 08:27, schrieb Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227): >> Since then, I went through quite a few distributions: SuSE, Mandrake, >> Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian. Gentoo was the first distribution that got me >> interested in getting to know the internals a bit more. About a year >> ago, a fellow CS student introduced me to Arch. After I blew up my >> Fedora installation (accidentally wrote to /dev/root), I chose to give >> Arch a try. I got hooked. Its simplicity really makes it a joy to tinker >> with. :) Especially creating packages and offering them to others (AUR) >> is something Arch made easy. >> >> I currently run two Arch systems, one on my laptop and one on a headless >> box mainly acting as a router. Both are getting packages from [testing]. >> >> Arch is the first distribution I actually started contributing back to. >> I began frequenting the Archlinux channels on Freenode, now and then >> helping out others and asking my own questions. I reported bugs I found, >> and I uploaded and maintain 15 packages in the AUR [1]. >> >> I use Pulseaudio on my laptop: Some of my packages in the AUR center on >> it, and I gave the wiki page on Pulseaudio an overhaul. I'm interested >> in taking over maintenance of the pulseaudio packages in [community] and >> improve Pulseaudio on Arch Linux. >> >> A few days ago, I finally got up the nerve to write about my gripes with >> the gvim package and propose a solution [2]. I was overwhelmed with the >> positive response. Now Dan Griffiths approached me and offered to >> sponsor my application as a TU. Thank you, Dan. >> >> I hope I'm getting accepted as TU and we can work together on improving >> this great distribution. :-) >> >> Regards, >> Jan "heftig" Steffens >> >> >> 1: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=heftig >> 2: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19087 >> >> > I'm happy to sponser Jan in his efforts to become a Trusted User! He has > repeatedly shown an aptitude for helping users in IRC, and while he currently > maintains only a few packages in AUR, those he does maintain are impeccable. > He has expressed interest in maintaining the PulseAudio packages in > [community] > and given our recent losses, I would be happy to hand them off to him. Wasn't there a request for someone who would maintain audio packages in general (and pulseaudio-based stuff in particular) recently? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [aur-general] TU application: Jan Steffens
On 19 April 2010 14:20, Jan Steffens wrote: > I use Pulseaudio on my laptop: Some of my packages in the AUR center on > it, and I gave the wiki page on Pulseaudio an overhaul. I'm interested > in taking over maintenance of the pulseaudio packages in [community] and > improve Pulseaudio on Arch Linux. Like the rest before me, kudos to you for stepping up to handle this one :) > A few days ago, I finally got up the nerve to write about my gripes with > the gvim package and propose a solution [2]. I was overwhelmed with the > positive response. Now Dan Griffiths approached me and offered to > sponsor my application as a TU. Thank you, Dan. > > I hope I'm getting accepted as TU and we can work together on improving > this great distribution. :-) At first I was skeptical about your packaging as I didn't know for how long you were using Arch, but then I saw your nickname. I know that nickname! I've seen you help on IRC and now I've gone through some of your popular PKGBUILDs - you'll do good to the team. Good luck! -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD
Re: [aur-general] TU application: Jan Steffens
Excerpts from Jan Steffens's message of 2010-04-19 12:45:30 +0200: > On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 12:23 +0200, Philipp wrote: > > I heard from other distros that PA is hard to kill there, and hence > > it's hard to free the interface for jack, but I don't know whether > > that's true for Arch. > > From what I know the problem here is that the client library will start > the local server if it's accessed but not running. > > So e.g. while the GNOME volume control is running or every time an > application tries to output an alert sound, the PulseAudio server is > restarted. > > Fortunately this is less of a problem with recent PulseAudio versions, > as the server will release the ALSA device if it becomes idle. I don't think that's the thing I remember. I think it was some PA setting in ubuntu that made it persistent, so if it was killed for whatever reason it was restarted immediately. Point is, as long as something like that doesn't happen it should be fine. You can shut down PA using whatever means and start jack. If PA tries to start then the device will simply not be available. And in case you configured PA to load the two necessary modules for jack support it will just start and output to jack. The only possible issue I see then is that PA apparently autoconnects to the first two outs, which might be dangerous. But when the user has to configure PA to do this he should be aware of this possible issue as well. Anyway, good luck with your application. Regards, Philipp
Re: [aur-general] TU application: Jan Steffens
Jan Steffens wrote: *SNIP* > I use Pulseaudio on my laptop: Some of my packages in the AUR center on > it, and I gave the wiki page on Pulseaudio an overhaul. I'm interested > in taking over maintenance of the pulseaudio packages in [community] and > improve Pulseaudio on Arch Linux. That is a laudable goal. Your work looks good, and I think that you would make a great addition to the team. Good luck! -- Chris
