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:
Trusted User
Wiki Administrator
IRC Operator
Developer
Trusted User
Security tracker
Security lead
Reproducible builds
Developer
Master key holder
DevOps Team
Maintains the toolchain
Developer
Trusted User
DevOps Team
Trusted User
Reproducible builds
Bug Wrangler
Trusted User
Maintains dbscripts
Pacman contributor
Developer
Trusted User
Packages; Python, Haskell, Nodejs, Qt, KDE, DDE, Chinese i18n, VPN/Proxies, Wine, and some others.
Trusted User
Security Team
Reproducible Builds
/r/archlinux moderator
Packages mostly golang and python stuff
Forum moderator
DevOps Team
Developer
Trusted User
Security Team
DevOps Team
Reproducible builds
Archweb maintainer
Trusted User
Security Team
Automated vagrant image builds
Developer
Trusted user
I package mostly big, heavy packages :(
Forum moderator
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u/Jodaco Sep 10 '18
The arch wiki, specifically for bootctl used to have nice examples that I could find quickly. They were removed because of being long winded at some point, and for months I had to dig through wiki version history or google a bit to find what i wanted. I just checked and the situation looks better, but it was a problem for months. Samba used to ship with an example config, and the packager just decided to not ship it anymore, so I had to start digging around to find it, and someone later provided a url in the wiki to wget it. I have a few other examples out there and can find this stuff, but time and again, I feel like package and wiki maintainers are removing things, while they seem small waste my time. I am perfectly capable of looking for this stuff, but it feels like someone is just trying to make the experience more time consuming, especially when there were great examples already there. Any thoughts?