[aur-general] TU Application - Timothy Redaelli

Dave Reisner d at falconindy.com
Mon Nov 28 08:51:45 EST 2011


On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 01:30:39PM +0100, Timothy Redaelli wrote:
> Hi,
> I thought about applying as a TU for some time now, I think the
> selection of packages provided by Arch is already great but there is
> always space for additional quality software in community and I hope
> to help with that.
> 
> Here's a little background about myself:
> I'm a 27yr old italian guy, working as a embedded developer in a broadband
> company.
> 
> I started to use linux with Corel Linux, then I passed to Mandrake, but I hate
> the RPM packaging system so I switched to Debian, mainly for its stability.
> In 2006 I became a Gentoo Developer [1] (Member of net-im, ppc and voip herds),
> Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/BSD and Gentoo/FreeBSD deputy lead for 2 years.
> I'm using ArchLinux since 2009 and I think it's the better distribution out
> there.
> 
> Like I said, I am a developer at heart and I released some opensource
> applications [2] and I helper with several project, as you can see in my ohloh
> profile [3].
> 
> I am a confident developer who loves the C language, but I
> also use SH scripting (both POSIX and Bash) and other
> languages.
> 
> I selected an initial list of AUR PKGBUILDs I plan to move
> to community:
> 
> - netselect
> - httrack
> - httperf
> 
> You can see on the AUR [4] that I maintain already a pretty long list of
> PKGBUILDs including the popular sshpass and ragel.
> 
> Andrea Scarpino is sponsoring my application as a trusted user.
> 
> If you have any question, just ask.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/149111?id=149111
> [2] https://github.com/drizztbsd/
> [3] https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/drizzt
> [4] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=tredaelli

Hi,

Thanks for your app. Why did you call out only 3 packages, 2 of which
aren't yours? Why not bring in your more popular apps? Unless I'm
mistaken, I see no reason that you couldn't bring in:

sshpass
libp11
ragel
sub2srt

Regards,
Dave
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