Hi devs,
With your permission, I'd like to join the contrib team.
I've been running CRUX on bare metal since 2015. In 2021 I got a
computer powerful enough to do full-system updates every week, allowing
me to experiment more efficiently with different build recipes. Since
that hardware upgrade I've been hanging out in the IRC channels to
help troubleshoot build failures and to share patches, most recently for
docbook-xml. I also helped revise the CRUX handbook and a couple of wiki
pages for the latest release.
I host some work-in-progress rewrites of the official pkg and port
utilities, at https://git.sdf.org/jmq/Documentation , and a personal
port collection https://git.sdf.org/jmq/cruxports . My main intention
in applying to contrib is to help relieve the burden on overworked core
maintainers, not to upload a whole bunch of ports from my personal repo
that nobody but myself will ever use. Aside from docbook-xml and
docbook-xsl (which Matt has offered to hand over), there are
$(prt-get printf "%i\t%n\t%M\n" | grep -v "^no" | grep -c Danny)
131 Romster ports that I use and could take over maintenance of, if
Danny wants to offload any of them.
My maintainer practices could definitely benefit from some more
automation and clean-room testing (using ck4up and docker, for example),
rather than the relaxed attitude of "updating whenever I get around to
it." I hope that being invited to participate in contrib will be the
incentive to finally adopt such a workflow, at least for the ports that
I pick up. Thanks for considering my application!
Best regards,
John
