On 1/26/18 4:23 PM, Ivy Foster wrote: > Hi, folks, > Hi! > I'm writing to apply to be a TU, and Alad Wenter has kindly agreed to > be my sponsor. > > I've been an Arch user for the last 10 years or so. Some of you may > know me from IRC or the forums, where I use the nick escondida. > Lately, I've been much less active on IRC, but have contributed a > handful of patches to pacman. I also maintain [a few buildscripts][1] > in the AUR. > > Arch has always been a rewarding community to contribute to, and I > figure that maintaining some packages and generally helping out could > be a good way to contribute a bit more. > > If accepted to be a TU, my plan of action is as follows: > 1. Go mad with power^U > 1. Bring a handful of packages into [community] (see below) > 2. Help out with rebuilds and package updates where that does not > involve stepping on toes > 3. Continue to submit occasional patches to Arch projects > 4. Help with to-do lists. Off the top of my head, taking a quick look > at current to-do lists with actual outstanding items: > > > https://www.archlinux.org/todo/packages-with-out-of-repositories-dependencies/ > I'd be interested both in simply weeding out those > with inappropriate deps and in bringing in deps I'd > consider actually useful, such as tcllib for tcl-remind. > > https://www.archlinux.org/todo/source-retirement/ > https://www.archlinux.org/todo/codegooglecom-retirement/ > I wouldn't mind tracking down lost sources. > Yesss!
> Thanks for your consideration, and I'm of course happy to answer > questions and address critiques. > > Cheers, > Ivy "escondida" Foster > > # Packages > > If I'm accepted, there are a handful of packages I already have in > mind to bring to the repos: > > - [bemenu][2] > Though dmenu is already available, bemenu is a solid > alternative for X, Wayland or terminals. > > - [farbfeld][3] > An oddball but interesting new image format > > - [frotz][4] > I don't know about you guys, but I think that text adventures > are positively xyzzy. > > - [ledger][5] > This program is super useful, and I doubt I'm the only one who > dreads every boost update because this takes so long to build! > > - [muttprint][6] > I don't always print emails, but when I do, I use muttprint. > > - [opendoas][7] > OpenBSD's much simpler alternative to sudo is now available > for Linux. > > - [physlock][8] > A tty screen locker > > - [sndio][9] > OpenBSD's excellent and simple sound system is now available > as a userspace daemon for Linux, and a surprising number of > things can build against it easily. > > Note that if I did bring this in, I wouldn't be including my > very basic XDG basedir patch (see AUR scripts). I'm going to > try and submit a better one upstream, and if that fails, > then...oh, well, I guess. > > - [t-prot][10] > It's just a simple script, but as a mutt user, it comes very > much in handy for making many emails more legible. > > - [translate-shell][11] > Very useful for simplifying or scripting translation tasks > (not that you should be counting on google translate to handle > anything longer than a few words, but still) > > - [xurls][12] > Saves you the trouble of parsing strings to find links > > # Links > > [1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=escondida > [2]: https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu > [3]: https://tools.suckless.org/farbfeld/ > [4]: http://frotz.sourceforge.net/ > [5]: https://www.ledger-cli.org > [6]: http://muttprint.sourceforge.net/ > [7]: https://github.com/Duncaen/OpenDoas > [8]: https://github.com/muennich/physlock > [9]: http://www.sndio.org/ > [10]: http://www.escape.de/~tolot/mutt/ > [11]: https://www.soimort.org/translate-shell/ > [12]: https://github.com/mvdan/xurls > Awesome! Well, best of luck, I think you'll make a great addition :) Regards, Andrew
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