On 04/27/2011 10:20 AM, Nicholas van Rheede van Oudtshoorn wrote: > Greetings all! > > My name is Nicholas van Oudtshoorn - long time Fedora user, first time > (hopefully!) contributor. > > One of my jobs (apart from being a church pastor) involves taking care > of the IT systems for a local seminary here in Perth, Western Australia. > We've been running Fedora on our servers for several years now - > basically because it's the distro I find the most intuitive! > As part of my duties, I manage the seminary's library software - Koha. > Although this runs fine under Fedora, quite a few of it's dependencies > are not available in the Fedora repositories. Given the number of > libraries using koha (big and small - check out > http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_Users_Worldwide ), I suspect > that rectifying this could be of some use! > > To this end, I've started packaging up build requirements. The first > package I've made (boy - it's more complex than it seems at first :-) ) > is for the Zebra database engine. After that, I'd like to work on the > perl packages that are missing. (CPAN is useful - but yum is *so* much > easier!) I'd also like to see about updating the yaz package. (yaz is > currently available in Fedora - but is quite a few versions behind the > upstream) Great, you can join Perl SIG ;-) We can help you with reviews of Perl packages. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Perl > > Anywho - just thought I'd introduce myself. I've loved using Fedora over > the last years - and am excited about the possibility of giving > something back. > > Nicholas van Oudtshoorn > -- Marcela MaÅlÃÅovà BaseOS team Brno -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
