Hey everyone. I'm hereby applying as a package maintainer,which is kindly sponsored by David (dvzrv) and Jelle (jelly) and formally by Levente (anthraxx), for whom Jelle has taken over the sponsorship.
## WhoI'm Giovanni, also known as anonfunc or idlegandalf. I've been using Arch Linux as my day-to-day driver since 2013 and Linux in general since probably 2008 (mostly server-side until 2011-12, last Windows I actually used was 7). As for notable contributions, you might have heard of ALHP, which I started in 2020.
ALHP developed from the idea of utilising modern CPU extensions all the way back in Q4 2019 (after I had a quick Gentoo detour on one of my laptops). At the time, no x86_64 levels were defined, so the first rough outlines still considered building for specific gcc CPU-baselines, like Haswell for example (which seems crazy in hindsight). When the x86_64 levels were announced in 2020, I started developing a buildbot capable of doing the heavy lifting, at the time in Python. After ditching Python in 2021 (after I got annoyed of multi-process) and rewriting the buildbot in Go, the project launched in July 2021. At the time, ALHP only provided x86_64-v3, shortly after launch x86_64-v2 followed. In December 2023 the x86_64-v4 repo launched, after I got my hands on a machine capable of building v4. Not sure how many users it actually has, since I do not do any tracking, but as far as requests on the tier 0 mirror go (ALHP has 7 mirrors in total, one operated by myself), it seems to see some usage. The buildbot is completely FOSS, you can have a look down in the links section.
Outside of my Arch Linux involvement I work as a DevOps engineer. I can also support Arch Linux there if needed.
## Goals & PackagesI want to help with package maintenance and advance infrastructure topics with the overall goal of bringing x86_64-v3 and build automation to life, as well as helping with potential problems that may come with v3, since ALHP had plenty of those already.
As for packages, I have a few that I think would benefit the general Arch Linux audience by being promoted to official packages, mostly QoL stuff:
- batsignal - wljoywake - jellyfin-mpv-shim (+ deps) - prismlauncher - victoriametrics - asus-numpad - mmdbinspectI'm also open to co-maintainer roles if there are any packages in need. Candidates could include DevOps related packages like Grafana or packages from the Go ecosystem in general, since I use that language extensively.
Besides the mentioned categories, I'm also interested to co-maintain: - home-assistant - jellyfin ## Links AUR packages: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?SeB=m&K=anonfunc AUR source repo: https://somegit.dev/anonfunc/aur-packages ALHP: https://somegit.dev/ALHP/ALHP.GO ALHP Status: https://status.alhp.dev/Feel free to criticise PKGBUILDs to your heart's content :) Improvement is a continuous thing, so keep them coming.
Giovanni
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