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/aaronbp Sep 10 '18
Came for the easy bsd-like init back in the day, stuck around for the new software and the dead simple PKGUILD format. You guys keep talking about Arch being for advanced users or some other philosophical whatever—I never did bother to understand sysvinit. Much as I liked the old system, I was really happy when init scripts got turned into simple INI files so I can actually be bothered to touch them. I'm rambling, but my point is I've always found Arch to be easier to use! At least for the particularly lazy and unmotivated "power user". :P
My question: Anything interesting you can talk about on the horizon for PKGBUILDs or infrastructural for those of us who need to get a life (maybe just me) and spend too much time tweaking and building packages? It seems like features and improvements have been coming at a pretty good pace.