Hello Robert and welcome to Fedora! Regards, Charalampos Stratakis Software Engineer Python Maintenance Team, Red Hat ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Mauchin" <zebob.m@xxxxxxxxx> To: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, July 31, 2017 1:34:23 PM Subject: Introduction/looking for a sponsor Hello, My name is Robert-André and I'm looking to become a packager for Fedora. I'm 33 years-old Frenchman. I first tried GNU/Linux in the late 90 with Debian and what was then Mandrake. Back then with no Internet, I remember It was tough to get set up and find help. After a Windows period, I got back to Linux in 2005 with Ubuntu's Hoary Hedgehog release. It was simple, almost everything worked out of the box, and I could work without having to « look under the hood » to make it work. Following what I thought was questionable relations between Ubuntu and upstreams, and their choices to reinvent the wheel, i decided look for alternative distributions. First Debian which was close to what I've been using, and then Fedora. I had some reservation about Fedora because last time I had tried one (Fedora 16, Verne), the package manager was quite slow compared to apt-get. And this meant a lot to relearn. But I was quickly conquered by its simplicity and its « freshness ». And then dnf came around, it was fast and easy to use, and I haven't left Fedora since then. Thanks to the French fedora-fr wiki which explains step-by-step how to make your own package, I've recently started to package my own things using the COPR service: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/eclipseo/ And now I'm looking to get them into Fedora. I've learned Fedora Packaging Guidelines, and how to use the various tool like rpmbuild, fedpkg, mock, Koji… Here's a few of the projects I want to include: - rclone: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1473314 This Go app allows you to sync your files among different Cloud services. I had to unbundled it so it spawned a dozen of new packages to build (see the dependencies). - qdirstat: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1476201 It's an app that allow you to track how your disk space is used, like k4dirstart, but written in Qt5. - libva-intel-hydrid-driver https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1475962 This driver enables video hardware acceleration for VP9 decoding on Skylake/Kabylake platforms. (dependency cmrt: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1475961) Since I proposed my packages, I've also started to do other reviews: - libcbor: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1474694 - clustersos: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1476438 - danmaQ: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1471806 - xfce4-statusnotifier-plugin: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1476489 - libsemigroups: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1476085 - tpm2-abrmd: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1475228 So if you like my work so far, please consider sponsoring me for the packaging team o/ Thank you. Robert-André === FAS username: eclipseo _______________________________________________ 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
