Hi On 2/3/14, 9:29 PM, Anatol Pomozov wrote: > Hi > > On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Anatol Pomozov > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi everyone > >> I would like to apply for a Arch Trusted User position. It is >> sponsored by my co-worker and bright engineer David Reisner. > >> My name is Anatol Pomozov, I grew up in Belarus but live in USA now. I >> am an open-source enthusiast who uses Linux since about 2005. I've >> been using several distros mostly Debian based. About 2.5 years ago, >> when Ubuntu in-place upgrade killed my system once again, I've decided >> to give a try to a rolling-release distro. > >> I had heard that Arch was difficult to use and unstable so I've been >> skeptical that Arch would survive at my computers for a long time. At >> my surprise Arch installation was easy and system was fast and stable. >> Documentation is clean and very helpful. And package manager is >> *FAST*! Yeah! I fell in love with Arch from the very first day. A few >> months later all my home computers were moved to Arch. And despite >> that I usually do crazy experiments at my home machines I've never had >> serious problems with Arch. Well, the only problem with Arch was in >> systemd-207 that prevented my btrfs-root machine from booting. > >> About a year ago I started playing more active role in Arch community. >> I adopted a lot of broken and out-of-date packages. Currently I own >> 350+ packages [1]. A lot of packages are for ruby gems that previously >> were out-of-date or had broken dependencies. I improved existing >> gem2arch tool [2] and it helps me with ruby packages herding. > > >> At my day job I work on Linux kernel development/support at a large >> server farm. My daily activity includes a lot of debugging, >> performance profiling, code archaeology both for linux kernel and >> in-house userspace code. Some of my linux changes went upstream, here >> are few of them: > >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/12/391 >> http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=134750749009884&w=2 >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/1/171 > >> Google Chromebook developers reported that my last patch fixed one of >> their top kernel crashes! > >> Recently me and my 6 y/o son started learning microelectronics and >> digital design. Maybe some day we'll create MIPS-like CPU. > > >> Why do I want to become a TU? I like Arch and would like to keep it >> improving. It means making packages better, participate in important >> discussions that define where the distro moves. > >> The short/mid terms plans for me are: >> - move some of my aur packages to community: rethinkdb, codespell, >> tup, mldonkey, v8. There are some other aur packages that I use and >> would also like to see in [community]: fatsort, digital design related >> tools, ... >> - add android-sdk-* packages. Current AUR packages download binaries >> and install binaries to /opt/bin. The binaries are 32-bit. Instead we >> should build SDK from sources and provide proper 64/32-bit binaries. >> This might be tricky as Android build system is complicated. >> - request moving Apache to [community] and finally update this package to >> 2.4 > >> I can help with linux kernel issues, especially if they are related to >> storage/block subsystem. > >> I also have experience with Ruby. This is my favorite scripting >> language that I use for 10 years now and I'll be glad to help with >> Ruby in Arch as well. > >> [1] aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=anatolik >> [2] https://github.com/anatol/gem2arch > > Dave asked me to share my public GPG key. > Here it is http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xB02854ED753E0F1F > The key is 753E0F1F >
D'oh, gmail web UI ate my gpg signature. Let me sign it once again, this time with Thunderbird.
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