Today Arch celebrate its 10th birthday. Allan had a very nice idea writing something about his years as archer; Pierre already did the same, and I’m going to write something about my years in this great distro.
I can’t forget the first time I heard about Arch Linux in a conversation with Antonio. I wasn’t fully satisfied by Slackware at that time, and Antonio said me to try Arch. So, I back to home to download the Arch Linux Gimmik iso; I try to install it, but I fail. Some month later the Voodoo iso was released; I try to install Arch again, but this time I success.
My adventure begins.
| 2007-10-05 | I registered my account in the Arch Linux Italia Forum |
| 2007-10-06 | I registered my account in the Arch Linux Forum |
| 2007-11-10 | First package submitted to AUR |
| 2007-12-20 | I help many Italian archers, so I’m promoted to Moderator in the Arch Linux Italia Forum |
| 2008-02-28 | I send my application as TU; JJDaNiMoTh sponsored my application |
| 2008-03-11 | My application is accepted (21 Yes, 0 Abstain, 0 No). I join the TU team, so I move some package to [community] and I adopt some useful tools for the WMs. Then Openbox, Pidgin and others stuff |
| 2008-03-28 | First bug closed FS#9926 |
| 2008-04-05 | My first valid bug report FS#10125 |
| 2008-07-08 | My first AUR patch is accepted |
| 2008-12-17 | Pierre needs a co-maintainer for KDE, I send my candidature |
| 2009-01-09 | My candidature is accepted and I became an Arch Linux DEV! I maintain KDE, then MySQL, and my old packages in [community] |
| 2009-01-26 | KDE 4.2.0 is out; is the first time I officially build KDE for Arch Linux |
| 2009-11-19 | I broke our MySQL installations |
| 2009-11-24 | I take the srcpac project |
| 2010-02-10 | Pierre leaves the KDE maintainer ship |
| 2010-02-22 | I took over maintainer ship of our Arch Linux Planet |
| 2010-10-19 | I’m promoted to administrator in Arch Linux Italia |
| 2011-02-07 | I resign as TU |
| 2011-03-29 | My first patch for pacman |
Probably I’m missing something here because I made this list very quickly, but I guess these are the relevant goals.
Five beautiful years in which I learned a lot of new things and I’ve to thank you the whole Arch community.
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