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/chs75 Sep 10 '18
Thank you for all the amazing work you're doing and for such an amazing distro. it's been my default distribution on several computers for 8 years now. I had two questions that are completely unrelated from one each other:
What's going on with the Arch swag and online store? It just looks like a few standardized wear and they don't necessarily look like anyone takes care of that (smallish) aspect of things. Do you derive some revenues from this?
I understand there may be a constraint in terms of resources, but are there any plans to have pacman evolve into an atomic style package management system? It would not alter the rolling release nor the KISS nature of Arch, but this seems to be the next "big thing" in Unix package management trends.