Hi everyone,

The D packages for ArchLinux has been orphaned since Dicebot stepped down as the maintainer and no one else stepped up. So I decided to step up and apply to become a Trusted User, and I got accepted yesterday[1]. So from now on I will be the one who maintains all the D packages (in the [community] repo), and it will be my job to fix them if they break.

If you haven't heard of me before (which is probable because I mostly lurk), my name is Dan, I'm 21 years old and I'm the developer of PowerNex[2], a D kernel/OS, and I livestream coding at Twitch[3].

Currently only dmd, dtools, ldc and lib{,l}phobos are in the [community] repo. I would like to move over dub, dcd, dscanner and dfmt (some of these were dropped from [community] due to being orphaned). You guys can help by voting on AUR packages that you want to be moved to [community].

Feel free to ping me on anything that is related to packaging or the ArchLinux packages.
I hope I can maintain ArchLinux as a great environment to use D.

Ways of contacting me:
- arch@vild.io
- wild on freenode (I lurk in #d, #archlinux, #powernex)
- Vild on github
- Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/bMZk9Q4

Thanks
- Dan

[1] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2017-August/033463.html
[2] https://github.com/PowerNex/PowerNex
[3] https://www.twitch.tv/wildn00b

On Wednesday, 9 August 2017 at 20:42:48 UTC, Wild wrote:
>
> I hope I can maintain ArchLinux as a great environment to use D.
>

You are not only the new package mainainer but also my new Hero :)

This is awesome :). Congratulation to your new role

On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 10:42 PM, Wild via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> The D packages for ArchLinux has been orphaned since Dicebot stepped down as the maintainer and no one else stepped up. So I decided to step up and apply to become a Trusted User, and I got accepted yesterday[1]. So from now on I will be the one who maintains all the D packages (in the [community] repo), and it will be my job to fix them if they break.
>
> If you haven't heard of me before (which is probable because I mostly lurk), my name is Dan, I'm 21 years old and I'm the developer of PowerNex[2], a D kernel/OS, and I livestream coding at Twitch[3].
>
> Currently only dmd, dtools, ldc and lib{,l}phobos are in the [community] repo. I would like to move over dub, dcd, dscanner and dfmt (some of these were dropped from [community] due to being orphaned). You guys can help by voting on AUR packages that you want to be moved to [community].
>
> Feel free to ping me on anything that is related to packaging or the
> ArchLinux packages.
> I hope I can maintain ArchLinux as a great environment to use D.
>
> Ways of contacting me:
> - arch@vild.io
> - wild on freenode (I lurk in #d, #archlinux, #powernex)
> - Vild on github
> - Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/bMZk9Q4
>
> Thanks
> - Dan
>
> [1] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2017-Augus
> t/033463.html
> [2] https://github.com/PowerNex/PowerNex
> [3] https://www.twitch.tv/wildn00b
>

On Wednesday, 9 August 2017 at 20:42:48 UTC, Wild wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> The D packages for ArchLinux has been orphaned since Dicebot stepped down as the maintainer and no one else stepped up. So I decided to step up and apply to become a Trusted User, and I got accepted yesterday[1]. So from now on I will be the one who maintains all the D packages (in the [community] repo), and it will be my job to fix them if they break.
>
> [...]

You are very much appreciated! Thanks for all your work!

On Wednesday, 9 August 2017 at 20:42:48 UTC, Wild wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> The D packages for ArchLinux has been orphaned since Dicebot stepped down as the maintainer and no one else stepped up. So I decided to step up and apply to become a Trusted User, and I got accepted yesterday[1]. So from now on I will be the one who maintains all the D packages (in the [community] repo), and it will be my job to fix them if they break.
>
> [...]

Thank you so much. You absolutely rock!

On Wednesday, 9 August 2017 at 20:42:48 UTC, Wild wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> The D packages for ArchLinux has been orphaned since Dicebot stepped down as the maintainer and no one else stepped up. So I decided to step up and apply to become a Trusted User, and I got accepted yesterday[1]. So from now on I will be the one who maintains all the D packages (in the [community] repo), and it will be my job to fix them if they break.

Thanks for stepping up Dan.

On Wednesday, 9 August 2017 at 20:42:48 UTC, Wild wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> The D packages for ArchLinux has been orphaned since Dicebot stepped down as the maintainer and no one else stepped up. So I decided to step up and apply to become a Trusted User, and I got accepted yesterday[1]. So from now on I will be the one who maintains all the D packages (in the [community] repo), and it will be my job to fix them if they break.

Thank you!

On Wednesday, 9 August 2017 at 20:42:48 UTC, Wild wrote:
> - Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/bMZk9Q4

Just wanted to say that this Discord server is a very nice D sub-community, and Discord itself is more impressive than your typical IRC alternative.

On 2017-08-09 22:42, Wild wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> The D packages for ArchLinux has been orphaned since Dicebot stepped
> down as the maintainer and no one else stepped up. So I decided to step
> up and apply to become a Trusted User, and I got accepted yesterday[1].

That's great. Do you want to maintain the package for DStep as well as Dicebot did?

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Thursday, 10 August 2017 at 14:26:41 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> That's great. Do you want to maintain the package for DStep as well as Dicebot did?

I could do that, but what I can see Dicebot still maintains it
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dstep/
But it could just be that he has forgot to orphan it.