On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 03:21:37AM +0000, George Rawlinson via aur-general
wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> My name is George Rawlinson (grawlinson), and I am applying to be a
> Trusted User. My sponsors are Morten Linderud (Foxboron) and
> Sven-Hendrik Haase (svenstaro). They have evaluated my PKGBUILDs and
> quickly come to the conclusion that they are considered a crime against
> humanity, but feel free to offer your own opinions. Feedback is always
> great! Especially if there's something I've overlooked.
>
> I've been distro hopping too many times to count, but have comfortably
> settled on Arch Linux since circa 2015. I have always loved tinkering
> with software, and Linux provides one of the best ecosystems for that.
> It all started back in 2009 when I started self-hosting my mail
> domain(s) on a Debian VPS, which was migrated over to Arch once I became
> proficient/comfortable enough. My Arch-specific installations have since
> ballooned from that one VPS to an ex-enterprise server at home, running
> a large set of LXD containers that provide a variety of services to make
> my life somewhat easier.
>
> I maintain my own pacman repository for convenience; it is essentially a
> private git repository made up of git submodules (for AUR packages) as
> well as forked/new packages. To make maintenance easier I extensively
> rely on nvchecker, to keep on top of new releases. aurutils/devtools to
> build/test packages in a clean chroot. Additionally, namcap helps me
> figure out when I've invoked Cthulhu.
>
> Contributions:
>
> - Maintainer of some AUR packages since 2016[0]
> - Hosted a Tier-2 mirror from 2017[1] to 2019[2] on a Hetzner VPS
> - Flung some patches at the namcap & infrastructure repos
> - Filed bug reports/patches for various upstream projects and on
> the Arch bug tracker
> - Member of the Arch Testing Team since sometime last year (2020)
>
> Packages to (hopefully) transfer to community:
>
> - distrobuilder (would be co-maintained with Foxboron)
> - promscale & promscale_extension
> - prometheus-apcupsd-exporter
> - prometheus-snmp-exporter
> - prometheus-ipmi-exporter (and its freeipmi dependency, which
> I also co-maintain)
>
> There are some things I'd like to become more involved in:
>
> - Monitoring the bug tracker for issues that I can help with
> - Co-maintaining some LX{C,D} and Prometheus/Timescale related packages
> - Learning more about the overall tasks that TUs perform so I can decide
> where I can best focus my efforts.
>
> It all comes down to Arch having made such a positive impact in my life,
> and I believe it is past due that I start contributing back.
>
> Regards,
> George Rawlinson
>
> [0]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=M&K=grawlinson
> [1]: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/52852
> [2]:
> https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-mirrors-announce/2019-May/000033.htmlI confirm my sponsorship :) George has helped test lxd when I was doing the original packages for the repositories and has generally been maintaining several packages in the AUR i have adopted into the repositories. The overall quality is good and he seems like a great person. I'm confident they are going to make a good addition to the team! -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16
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