Sorry about all my late responses. I have been really swamped at work
for the last week. I will be more responsive this weekend.
If you have any questions, I'll do my best to answer them.
I really hope I can be a good addition to the team and I am eager to
learn more of the process that goes into making Arch Linux as great as
it is.
Den 16.02.2025 kl. 08.21 skrev Dan "Strit" Johansen:
# Package Maintainer Application
Hi everyone
My name is Dan Johansen, but known around the interwebs, Matrix and
AUR as
Strit, and I am sending in my application to become an Arch Linux Package
Maintainer.
Morten Linderud (Foxboron) and Carl Smedstad (carsme) have kindly
agreed to
be my sponsors in this adventure.
I’m a family man, with a wife and 2 kids, we are from Denmark and
currently
living in the southern region.
My first run-in with Linux was just over 20 years ago at school where
I was
tasked to setup a firewall using Red Hat. Then I had a break for about 10
years and came back in around 2013, where I started on Ubuntu, then
switched
to Manjaro in 2015-2016, where I became part of the dev team and a
package
maintainer of the ARM branch of the distribution and started
maintaining some
AUR packages. In 2021 I then switched to regular Arch and have been
enjoying
my time ever since.
My PKGBUILDs in the AUR are not perfect, so I am still learning
standards and
best practices. But I’ve been eager to contribute to Arch any way I
can. I
tend to help open source projects with bug reports, support assistance
and
translations where ever I can.
In my personal life, I work for a cloud company that specializes in
Microsoft
software, but I am full Linux nerd at home. Even my home server is
running
Arch. I was invited to join the community dinner at FOSDEM 2024 where
I met
some of the team members. I’m not very forward and a bit shy when I am
around
other people, but I believe I am a kind and helpful person. I’m a huge
movie
fan[1], I play TTRPGs like D&D, World of Darkness and other small
games. In
the recent couple of years I’ve also been out “viking-camping”[2],
which is a
nice break from technology and notifications.
Here is a list of all my current AUR packages [3].
As package maintainer I would like to include and maintain the following
packages:
• `python-tmdbsimple` (a python package to access the TMDB api)
• `gpu-viewer` (a python application to view GPU information)
• `greetd-qtgreet` (a qt based greeter for greetd)
• `dfl-*` (a set of libraries written in qt for use in building
desktop
environments)
As time goes on and I get more experience I would like to also include:
• `CoreApps` (a lightweight qt based application suite)
• `watchmate` (companion app for PineTime watch)
• `wayfire` and some AUR packages that depend on it
I would also like to co-maintain:
• `griffith` (as I am responsible for the source of that
application at
this time)
I have also found the following orphaned packages in the repository
that I
would be able to maintain:
• `aspell-da`
• `reflector`
• `stress`
• `vcdimager` (if needed)
• `xdhg-desktop-portal-xapp` (maybe)
In Manjaro I was packaging some Qt and Electron based apps, so I would
like
to help in that realm as well.
I hope this application is worth consideration and that I have
described who
I am to a satisfactory degree, if not you are always welcome to ask.
GPG Public key: `084A 7FC0 035B 1D49`
Links:
[1]: https://movies.strits.dk
[2]: https://blog.strits.dk/2023-viking-season-highlights/
[3]:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&SeB=m&K=Strit&outdated=&SB=p&SO=d&PP=50&submit=Go
--
Med venlig hilsen / Kind Regards
Dan Johansen
