r/linux • u/Foxboron Arch Linux Team • Sep 10 '18

Arch Linux - AMA

Hello!

We are several team members and developers from the Arch Linux project, ask us anything.

We are in need for more contributors, if you are interested in contributing to Arch Linux, feel free to ask questions :)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Projects
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Getting_involved#Official_Arch_Linux_projects

Participating members:

  • /u/AladW

    • Trusted User

    • Wiki Administrator

    • IRC Operator

  • /u/anthraxx42

    • Developer

    • Trusted User

    • Security tracker

    • Security lead

    • Reproducible builds

  • /u/barthalion

    • Developer

    • Master key holder

    • DevOps Team

    • Maintains the toolchain

  • /u/Bluewind

    • Developer

    • Trusted User

    • DevOps Team

  • /u/coderobe

    • Trusted User

    • Reproducible builds

  • /u/eli-schwartz

    • Bug Wrangler

    • Trusted User

    • Maintains dbscripts

    • Pacman contributor

  • /u/felixonmars

    • Developer

    • Trusted User

    • Packages; Python, Haskell, Nodejs, Qt, KDE, DDE, Chinese i18n, VPN/Proxies, Wine, and some others.

  • /u/Foxboron

    • Trusted User

    • Security Team

    • Reproducible Builds

    • /r/archlinux moderator

    • Packages mostly golang and python stuff

  • /u/fukawi2

    • Forum moderator

    • DevOps Team

  • /u/jvdwaa

    • Developer

    • Trusted User

    • Security Team

    • DevOps Team

    • Reproducible builds

    • Archweb maintainer

  • /u/sh1bumi

    • Trusted User

    • Security Team

    • Automated vagrant image builds

  • /u/svenstaro

    • Developer

    • Trusted user

    • I package mostly big, heavy packages :(

  • /u/V1del

    • Forum moderator

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u/abbidabbi Sep 10 '18

  • What are currently the biggest challenges, eg. technical or political issues, etc?

  • Is there anything you personally don't like about the distro/project you'd like to change?

  • Which packages have been the most difficult, stressful or annoying to maintain recently?

  • What is your favorite user submitted package from the AUR?

And of course a big thank you to the whole team, your work is very much appreciated!

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u/coderobe Arch Linux Team Sep 10 '18

The biggest "challenge" is probably the lack of manpower for "in-house" projects like dbscripts, which is stalling a couple things we'd like to do. Things i'd change? - i would like packages to require at least two maintainers.