On October 18, 2020 3:39:41 PM UTC, Tim Meusel via aur-general <[email protected]> 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: > >* puppet [1] >* puppet5 [2] >* facter [3] >* libwhereami [4] >* ruby-deep_merge [5] >* ruby-httpclient [6] >* ruby-sync [7] >* ruby-puppet-resource_api [8] >* ruby-semantic_puppet [9] > >Besides working on open source projects, I spent a huge amount of time >for my second passion, cooking and doing BBQ. From time to time I also >attend ice hockey events as visitor but also as hobby-referee or >player. > >As a trusted user I would like to co-maintain those packages, enable >tests on the PKGBUILDs where tests are currently missing (for example >ruby-puppet-resource_api, ruby-semantic_puppet and Puppet), fix the >remaining namcap warnings (for example on facter and libwhereami) and >also import some other Puppet related tools into the official >repository. Some of them are already in the AUR (not all maintained by >myself): > >* fluent-bit (not Puppet related) [10] >* ruby-gettext-setup [11] >* ruby-minitar [12] >* ruby-puppet_forge [13] >* ruby-rr [14] >* ruby-cri [15] >* ruby-test-unit-rr [16] >* ruby-fast_gettext [17] >* ruby-gettext [18] >* ruby-locale [19] >* ruby-text [20] >* ruby-colored2 [21] >* r10k [22] > >If you check my AUR packages, you might notice the awful ruby-log4r >package. That's a dead project where the source code is gone. It's a >dependency for r10k. I'm "maintaining" ruby-log4r in the AUR, so I can >test and build r10k, but I'm also in contact with the upstream >developers to replace this dead dependency. I've no intention to get >log4r into any official repository. > >I talked to shibumi and hashworks in the past days, both reviewed the >packages and agreed to sponsor my application. > >I'm available on Freenode as bastelfreak. I'm pretty active in >#archlinux.de and #voxpupuli. My GPG key fingerprint is >C10B6298A584A5632E254DA304D659E6BF1C4CC0 > >best regards, Tim > >[0] https://voxpupuli.org >[1] >https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/puppet >[2] >https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/puppet5 >[3] >https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/facter >[4] >https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/libwhereami >[5] >https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/ruby-deep_merge >[6] >https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/ruby-httpclient >[7] >https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/ruby-sync >[8] >https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/ruby-puppet-resource_api >[9] >https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/ruby-semantic_puppet >[10] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fluent-bit#comment-749760 >[11] >https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-gettext-setup/#comment-725838 >[12] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-minitar/#comment-723296 >[13] >https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=ruby-puppet_forge >[14] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=ruby-rr >[15] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=ruby-cri >[16] >https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=ruby-test-unit-rr >[17] >https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-fast_gettext/#comment-723301 >[18] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-gettext/#comment-725388 >[19] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-locale/#comment-723294 >[20] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-text >[21] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-colored2/#comment-771053 >[22] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/r10k/#comment-770978
Not a TU, but I noticed that the GPG key that signed this application is expired according to my mail client.
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