On 05/18/2017 11:42 AM, Thanos Apostolou wrote: > Hi, my name is Thanos Apostolou and I am from Greece. I am studying Electrical and Computer Engineering in the National Technical University of Athens. Hi Thanos, Big welcome to you! > > > > My linux experience, so far, is this: > > I was using Ubuntu since 2012 and I was active in the askubuntu.com, where I was trying to help people solving problems, while expanding my knowledge at the same time. > > Then I moved to arch based distros at 2016 where I settled with Manjaro. I learned there how to create PKGBUILDs. > I've been active on the Manjaro forum, I have been doing a few Pull Requests to Manjaro Github Repositories in order to improve/update certain packages. > I also maintain the Manjaro Lxde Community Edition. > > Recently I decided to move to Fedora as it feels more "Professional" and higher quality distribution. Glad to have you on board :) > So, I believe that Fedora provides a better user experience. > Additionally, I will be able to improve my knowledge by learning Fedora's infrastructure. > However Fedora doesn't have the AUR and it's missing a lot of packages that I needed, so I learned how to create simple RPM packages and how to use COPR. > > > > I've seen many users (especially youtubers) avoiding Fedora because of some missing packages and because it's not so user friendly. > So, my goal is to contribute to Fedora by creating some simple packages which I've seen many people ask for. Amazing! Packagers are the unsung heroes of open source. > Because of my University's workload, I don't have much time in order to do more complex tasks, so in the beginning I want to make packages for some themes and some simple software (like compton). > When I get enough experience, in the future, I might get involved with some more difficult tasks. > If you're interested at all in cloud or containers feel free to join me and others in #fedora-cloud on freenode. > > > > > For start, I have created this Review Request for vertex-theme which works good with the latest gtk versions and looks awesome with gtk Fedora spins: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1451298 > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
