On 05/19/2014 07:51 PM, Christopher wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Christopher Tubbs. I'm a long-time user of Fedora and > Linux, and a big fan of free (as in speech) software. I love bigdata > and scientific computing, and consider myself a seasoned Java > developer and Maven user. Welcome! > I'm currently working on Apache Accumulo as my first package for > Fedora (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ApacheAccumulo). I'm > also an upstream developer for Accumulo project, which helps, because > there's a lot of patches I need to make to get it to build with the > dependency versions available in Fedora. > > I'm not yet in the package maintainers group, but my FAS account is > ctubbsii and I'm seeking a mentor (preferably one familiar with the > Hadoop ecosystem and Java packaging) to help me get all the kinks > worked out of my package. I'm still very new to the whole packaging > environment in Fedora, and trying to get a handle on understanding all > the infrastructure at Fedora needed to get things done. I definitely > need a mentor to help me understand the packaging process and tools in > the Fedora infrastructure (cgit, bugzilla, koji, etc.). If you need help feel free to ask on IRC (#fedora-java or #fedora-bigdata) or ping me directly. (I am usually the one people come to with Maven-related packaging questions.) For formal sponsorship into packager group just submit a rewiew request. I can sponsor you if no one else does. > My draft packaging is not yet done, but in progress here: > https://github.com/ctubbsii/accumulo-fedora (temporary) I had a quick look at the package and it looks good. There are some things that could be improved, but it's more a matter of style and best practices rather than correctness. -- Mikolaj Izdebski Software Engineer, Red Hat IRC: mizdebsk -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
