Hi Hyacinthe! My name is Benedek.. TLDR; I'm an open source newbie and I ask dumb questions;
While this is my first reply to the aur mailing list and I have almost no reputation for contributing to open source or archlinux, I would like to kindly ask you the following question and I hope you will answer at your discretion and a level of detail you are satisfied with; I'm not the right person to decide the fate of your application, I'm only curious and I love prying into topics I have little knowledge about: > I genuinely enjoyed reading the pacman code. C is not my day job but I'm interested in everything low-level. TLDR; Fun fact: Working with C could be anywhere from easy to terrifying as a package maintainer imo but maybe I'm mistaken. Having worked for so long being a sysadmin, could you please give us an overview of how low of a low-level you are talking about? I have clicked through your repositories but at first glance (but I'm sure there's more) I only found shell scripts and configuration files for containers. Is it just adventuring into C itself as a programming language that you are interested in, or would you go deeper than that, like maybe even to the extreme of working with things like microcode, graphics drivers, fileystems? So this is a spectrum of course, but on a scale of 1 to 10? I understand that as a package maintainer there is less responsibility on you than on the programmer, but to properly test these things can prove to be difficult. Now I apologize if my question is inappropriate for a package maintainer application. I just had this idea in my head as someone who is concerned with detail and things working well; and most of all security. And correct me if I'm wrong but it seems to me that it comes with great responsibility to maintain projects with low-level code. If you dislike this question I won't mind if it goes unanswered. Have a lovely day. Yours truly, Benedek On Sun, 12 Apr 2026 at 20:32, Jakub Klinkovský <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12.04.26 at 15:59 (UTC+0200), Hyacinthe Cartiaux wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My name is Hyacinthe and I'm hereby applying to become a Package > Maintainer. > > My application is sponsored by Rémi Gacogne (rgacogne), whom I met at > FOSDEM > > this year, and Robin Candau (Antiz). I sincerely thank both of them for > > their availability and support. > > > > I live near Metz in France and I've been working as an HPC sysadmin at > the > > University of Luxembourg for the last 15 years. You can find me by my > first > > name on IRC or my unix login "hcartiaux" anywhere else. > > Hi, > > nice to see another HPC guy coming in. How many Arch Linux nodes does your > cluster have? 😉 > > Cheers, > Jakub >
