Hello good people and fellow miscreants, My name is Benjamin Denhartog, better known as sudoforge [0], and I'd like to formally submit an application to become a TU. I've maintained a few AUR packages for a while now [1], and you've probably seen me around and about in IRC (_mostly_ `#archlinux-offtopic` these days). Both Felix Yan (felixonmars) and Morten Linderud (Foxboron) have agreed to sponsor my application.
I've been in, on, and around computers for my entire life (thanks fam), and have been involved in the open source community from the moment I started learning to program in the early 2000s. I currently work in the "DevOps" space, focusing on developer tooling, workflow automation, and all of the ancillary things that come with that, like infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability and remediation. I enjoy mentoring less experienced engineers (and people brand new to technology alike), having been a part of mentorship and educational programs both at work and in the public (via Meetup). Outside of things related to computers, I enjoy snowboarding, cooking, and trying to take halfway-decent pictures. I currently live in the Rocky Mountains, somewhere around 3050m (9150ft) elevation, where the oxygen is a bit thinner, just like the crowds (except for the tourist-heavy days). Below are some of the things I pledge to do as a TU. # AUR packages that I'll move to community - bazelisk - buildozer - copybara (`copybara-git`) - firebase-tools - google-appengine-go - google-cloud-sdk - google-cloud-sdk-app-datastore-emulator - google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-java - google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-python - google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-python-extras - kind (`kind-bin`) - ledger-live - ledger-udev - lf Additionally, I'll be packaging the rest of the `google-cloud-sdk` plugins which are not yet packaged, and I'd love to help co-maintain or adopt Rust or Golang packages, and anything else that strikes my fancy along the way. # A non-exhaustive list of packages I use and would love to co-maintain - alacritty - bat - bazel - bottom - buildah - container-diff - crictl - critest - go - gopass - kubectl - kubectx - ledger - neomutt - packer - podman - restic - ripgrep - rtorrent - rust - rust-analyzer - rustup - signal-desktop - unbound - vault - zsa-wally-cli # Miscellaneous things I want to do - Take a look at the TU and maintainer workflows, and automate what can be automated (e.g. onboarding), with the goal of simplifying management of the Arch Linux ecosystem - Help out with infrastructure maintenance and other operational tasks - Make a billion dollars and never have to work again, so I can spend my time traveling and working on open source projects Thanks for taking the time to read this (or at least, quickly scan over the above wall of text). Take a break and get a coffee/tea/beer -- have a good weekend. [0]: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/sudoforge [1]: https://github.com/sudoforge/pkgbuilds All the best, sudoforge
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