Re: Self Introduction: Nikolay Nikolov

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On Sun, 2020-07-05 at 07:09 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 8:48 PM <nickysn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > My name is Nikolay Nikolov. I'm a software developer and free/open
> > source enthusiast. I've been using Linux since Red Hat Linux 5.0.
> > After
> > Red Hat Linux 9, I upgraded to Fedora Core 1 and I've used every
> > Fedora
> > version since then. :) I'm a core developer of the Free Pascal
> > Compiler
> > ( https://www.freepascal.org/ ). My Free Pascal contributions
> > include
> > code generator support for some legacy platforms, such as 16-bit
> > x86
> > and Z80, as well as modern stuff, such as GDB/MI debugger support
> > integration in the Free Pascal IDE, x86 optimizations (for all x86
> > flavours - 16-bit, 32-bit and 64-bit).
> > 
> > I also develop and maintain several open source projects, written
> > in
> > Pascal.
> > 
> > Things I'm interested in contributing to Fedora:
> > 
> > - co-maintaining the Free Pascal package (fpc) and adding
> > crosscompiler
> > support for additional targets (e.g. crosscompiling to i386-linux
> > from
> > x86_64, crosscompiling to win32 and win64, etc.).
> > - packaging the DOSBox-X fork of DOSBox:
> > https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x
> > - packaging some of my Pascal projects, when they get a release
> > - eventually, packaging other programs, written in Free Pascal
> 
> Your timing is impeccable!  I'm looking for a co/new maintainer for
> the Hedgwars package. I have a couple of offers, but as it's written
> mostly in Pascal, I think you would be a good fit! :)
> 
> I can sponsor you if you like unless you really would rather submit
> some of your pascal packages first, I wouldn't be the best one for
> that.

Yes, I can co-maintain Hedgewars as well. :) I still haven't figured
out how everything works with the packaging yet, so it'd be much easier
for me to start with an existing package, that already conforms to the
packaging guidelines and that requires little changes, besides updating
to new versions and rebuilding. :)

Best regards,
Nikolay

> 
> Thanks,
> Richard
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