On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 05:23:20PM +0200, Jonas Witschel wrote: > Hi all, > > my name is Jonas Witschel (online nick "diabonas" on the > AUR/GitHub/GitLab/...) and I am applying as an Arch Linux Trusted User > under the sponsorship of Bruno Pagani and Alad Wenter. > I hereby confirm my sponsorship of Jonas. Best of luck with your application!
Alad > A few words about myself: I am a math PhD student and long-time Linux > user. I switched to Arch Linux around 2016 because I like the idea of a > rolling release distribution that stays close to upstream, which is > especially beneficial when doing software development. I got more > actively involved in contributing to Arch when the previous AUR > maintainer of the tpm2-software stack (tpm2-tss, tpm2-abrmd and > tpm2-tools) orphaned these packages, so I took over maintenance until > they were adopted to [community]. > > I am interested in many security-related thing such as Secure Boot, > Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs), disk encryption, PGP, ... As such, I am > a member of the tpm2-software organisation and a maintainer of tpm2-totp > [1]. Recently I have been working on getting Web Key Directory support > into pacman for fetching PGP keys independently of the key server > network [2,3]. A repository of all my AUR packages can be found on > Gitlab [4]. > > If I were accepted as a trusted user, I would take over maintenance of > the tpm2-software stack from my sponsor Bruno Pagani. This makes sense > since I am an upstream member of tpm2-software anyway and had been > maintaining these packages until they were adopted to [community]. > Another long-time goal as a trusted user would be getting out of the box > Secure Boot support for the Arch Linux installation images [5,6]. > > Packages I would like to adopt from the AUR to [community] for starters are: > > - The rest of the tpm2-software stack: tpm2-tss-engine and tpm2-totp > (when they have reached the 1% usage from pkgstats/10 votes on the AUR > threshold), tpm2-pkcs11-git (as soon as it gets a release). > - clevis and tang (and their dependencies jose, luksmeta) > - sbupdate-git (I need to speak to upstream about making a release first) > - paperkey > - cryptomator > - deheader > - texworks > - pdftk-java (an exact Java reimplementation of the very popular > pdftk/pdftk-bin, which is hard to package since it relies on an outdated > version of GCC) > > I am looking forward to working with you and welcome any questions and > comments! > > Cheers, > Jonas > > [1] https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-totp > [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63171 > [3] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2019-July/023493.html > [4] https://gitlab.com/diabonas/aur-packages > [5] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/53864 > [6] > https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2019-January/003891.html >
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