Hey! 👋
My name is Robin Candau.
I’m a french Linux system & DevOps engineer passionate about skateboarding, music, cycling and, obviously, Linux!
This website serves as a central place to get general & contact info about me, as well as writing some blog posts when I feel like it.
Projects
As a general open source enthusiast, I contribute to many open source projects and I’m always willing to help, share and learn in the process!
The main projects I actively contribute to are:
Arch Linux
Arch Linux is a lightweight and flexible Linux distribution that focuses on simplicity, modernity, pragmatism, user centrality and versatility.
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Package Maintainer: As part of the Arch Linux staff, I contribute to the development of the distribution by maintaining packages in Arch’s official repositories.
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Testing team member and coordinator: As a testing team member, I test & verify packages submitted to the Arch Linux testing repositories before they get promoted to the stable ones. I’m also in charge of on-boarding new testing team members.
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AUR Package maintainer and moderator: In addition of maintaining packages in the official repositories, I’m also maintaining some packages in the AUR (a community-driven repository maintained by Arch users) and I participate to its moderation.
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WSL image maintainer: I maintain the official Arch Linux WSL image.
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Various other contributions: I’m also contributing to numerous other parts of the Arch Linux project as whole, such as some of our tools (e.g. pacman-contrib, devtools / pkgctl, archlinux-contrib), reproducible builds, infrastructure, Arch Wiki, submitting RFCs, interacting with the community…
Alpine Linux
Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox.
- Packaging: I maintain some packages in Alpine Linux repositories and I’m contributing at raising & fixing some packaging issues. I am also maintaining some of Alpine’s packaging tooling in Arch Linux repositories.
Arch-Update
Arch-Update is an update notifier & applier for Arch Linux that assists you with important pre / post update tasks.
- Developer / Maintainer: Arch-Update is one of the Open Source projects I develop and maintain over on GitHub