Hello, Fabio. Welcome to Fedora community! On Thursday, 24 November 2016 at 22:34, Fabio Valentini wrote: > Here goes my introduction as a new (or aspiring) package maintainer for fedora. > > I have been using fedora as my daily driver OS for some years now (I > think starting with f18 or f19). Also, I have been learning to build > RPM packages for some time, too - some of you may be familiar with my > elementary-stable/nightly and/or syncthing COPR repositories. > > And now I decided the time has come to begin submitting my elementary > packages for review :) I am already in frequent contact with the > upstream developers, who have - most of the time - been really helpful > with fixing issues of portability and compatibility with fedora. Excellent! Having good relationship with our upstreams is invaluable and - as you probably know - part of our core values. > My first review request can be found at [1]. Great, I'll take a look. Could you do some non-binding reviews of other packages awaiting reviews in the meantime? Two should be enough. > To give some more background about myself: > > I am currently studying Computer Science and Chemistry at the > University of Innsbruck / Austria (and yes, my native language is > German). I have some experience writing C and Java code (mostly > because of University courses) and have taught myself some Python, > too. I am also currently undergoing the "functional programming > treatment" (with OCaml). Excellent, we have a number of chemistry-related packages in Fedora already, as well as quite a few maintainers in this area. You're welcome to join the SciTech SIG: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:SciTech_SIG > Probably the project that I am most proud of (aside from packaging / > my COPR repositories) is a simple, configurable and modular build tool > for automatically constructing RPM packages (written in python3): > kentauros (you can find it on github) - but it is far from finished > yet (although I am already heavily using it for stable and automagic > nightly builds for my COPR repositories). Cool! Regards, Dominik -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
