Allan McRae a écrit :

Hello,

I'm Allan McRae and go by the imaginative username "Allan" on the AUR,
forums and bug tracker. I maintain around 25 packages in the AUR
(although around half of these are perl-modules) and have had a
package moved to community (sunbird). If you elect me to be a TU, I
will initially move several of my packages (xmltv + dependencies,
desemume, colordiff) to community as well as a couple of other popular
packages I use often that are fairly popular (jabref, possibly
notecase). I am currently unable to build x86_64 packages as my 64bit
desktop has been dead for the last three months (from a power surge I
think) and I have given up on fixing it but will probably buy a new
one in the coming months.


I have been using Linux since Red Hat 8.0 was released (late 2002?). I
shuffled from Fedora to Ubuntu to Debian before building a Linux From
Scratch system. I discovered Arch when I was looking at finding a
package manager to use in LFS and installed it "temporarily" to build
my new LFS system. That was about a year and a half ago... I now
have Arch installed on two servers, a (broken) desktop and a laptop.
As an Arch user, I am fairly active on the forums and like to go bug
squashing occasionally. I have also contributed a couple of patches
to pacman. I have written a script for maintaining R libraries but I
think no-one but me actually uses it.


A bit about me personally. I am 27 years old, a New Zealander
currently living in Brisbane, Australia. I work as a statistical
geneticist for a large medical research institute. Apart from
computers, my major hobbies include martial arts and watching anime.


I have Roman lined up to sponsor me.

Cheers,
Allan




I think it would be great to have you on board Allan!

As I have never sponsored anybody, and since I know the stuff you
maintain on AUR, I am going to pass by Roman (sorry!) and hereby declare
my willingness to sponsor you :P


As I am sure this question will pop up soon, I do encourage you to
consider building your packages for x86_64 using Aaron's build machine.
We can give you details about that once you are a TU


This opens the usual discussion period.

Cheers,
François

2008/1/9, Firmicus <Firmicus@gmx.net>:
> I think it would be great to have you on board Allan!
>
> As I have never sponsored anybody, and since I know the stuff you
> maintain on AUR, I am going to pass by Roman (sorry!) and hereby declare
> my willingness to sponsor you :P

Ha! You've late by 10 minutes. :-P
Now Allan is sponsored 2 times, which is not bad at all. :-)

--
Roman Kyrylych (Ð*оман Кирилич)

Yes I think he would become a great TU. I noticed Allan quite a few times on bbs

I've had a quick glance over his PKGBUILDs and, except for some cosmetic things they seem fine. I've send him a private mail about that.


One thing does worry me though after reviewing his PKGBUILDs....I think I'm hooked tonight in playing bubbros. It is so long ago since I last played that game on my c64 back then

Roman Kyrylych a écrit :

2008/1/9, Firmicus <Firmicus@gmx.net>:


I think it would be great to have you on board Allan!

As I have never sponsored anybody, and since I know the stuff you
maintain on AUR, I am going to pass by Roman (sorry!) and hereby declare
my willingness to sponsor you :P



Ha! You've late by 10 minutes. :-P
Now Allan is sponsored 2 times, which is not bad at all. :-)


Fine with me! You are a great sponsor anyway

Next time I'll write the email in advance, so I can paste in the name of
whoever I want to sponsor and I'll beat you! Of course I'm kidding.


F

On Jan 9, 2008 6:22 AM, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yep, I'm sponsoring Allan on his way to become a TU.
> He's a great guy, helped me alot with bugtracker.
> And his packages are in good quality, and often more than simple
> configure/make/make install.
> I'm sure Allan will be a good addition to our team.
> This starts the discussion period (5 days).

While I'm not really a TU and don't get a vote, I want to say that I
fully support Allan here. Allan is one of my (many) heroes.

On Jan 10, 2008 1:42 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
> While I'm not really a TU and don't get a vote, I want to say that I
> fully support Allan here. Allan is one of my (many) heroes.

+1 from me too, I'd love to see Allan become a TU after all the work
I've seen him do for Arch.

--
Callan 'wizzomafizzo' Barrett