Hi, I made a first contribution package for xedit, that happens to be the text editor I use for most tasks :-) see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=815624 I would like to contribute to SciTech SIG. I notice there is https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/SciTech/SAGE, and actually, I have packaged sagemath in Mandriva, and kept the package functional and updated to latest upstream for around 3 years. Sagemath itself depends on roughly 300 different upstream packages, and other packages I would like to contribute at some point is salome, that I also packaged in Mandriva, http://www.salome-platform.org/. Currently it is not functional in Mandriva cooker but should be in released versions, I got a hacked workaround described at https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=65396 Other large "scientific" system I package is texlive, that I made several perl and sh scripts that allows translating texlive package management control files, etc to rpm specs, so that can keep up to date with latest TeX Live. This is a very large set of packages, due to matching 1 to 1 with texlive, e.g.: $ urpmq -a texlive- | sort -u | wc -l 2376 There is already such a texlive packaging schema for fedora described at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/TeXLive so I should at least be able to help a bit :-) I understand that there is plenty of bureaucracy to get packages in the distro, and do not expect them to be "core" packages, but expect them to be unsupported, contrib packages. Most important packages I maintain in Mandriva should be gcc, glibc, valgrind and java-1.*.0-openjdk. Note that I am a Mandriva employee and my major interest is to become more aware of how Fedora works, so, I want to contribute like I did with several other projects in the past, that is, after work at home and/or weekends. Thanks, Paulo _______________________________________________ scitech mailing list scitech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/scitech
