Re: New contributor interested in taking maintainership of SWORD, Xiphos, and Bibletime

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On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 2:10 PM Aaron Rainbolt <arraybolt3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello, and thanks for your time.
>
> I am a former (and possibly future) Ubuntu and Lubuntu Developer who
> recently started using Fedora on some of my systems. I have about a year
> of experience in Linux distro development from my previous work with
> Lubuntu and Ubuntu. After trying Fedora, I liked it so much I decided I
> wanted to contribute to it, and discovered that the SWORD package had
> become orphaned and retired due to a bug in its Python bindings. As I
> use SWORD and programs it depends on in my day-to-day work, I decided
> I'd like to try to fix SWORD and become its maintainer.
>
> Over the last few days I've worked to get the SWORD package into a
> usable and policy-compliant state, including:
>
> * Fixing the Python-related bug
> * Updating the packaging to comply with the current Fedora Packaging
> Guidelines
> * Doing a full license audit of the SWORD code
> * Clarifying the licensing of various files with upstream
> * Asking for one non-free component to be relicensed under a
> Fedora-compatible license (a request which was granted)
> * Repacking the upstream tarball to remove optional non-free components
>
> After discussion with the SWORD developers, I found that the original
> maintainer of SWORD in Fedora also maintained Xiphos and Bibletime, two
> applications which depend on SWORD and are closely related to it. For
> this reason, I would like to become the maintainer of all three
> ultimately, though for the moment I'm only actively pursuing
> maintainership of SWORD since it's the only package that needs help at
> the moment.
>
> Depending on how things go, I also am interested in assisting with the
> development of Fedora LXQt Spin, as it is quite similar to Lubuntu, a
> project I worked closely with for about a year.
>
> I hope I can be valuable to the Fedora community! Thanks for your help,
> and have a great day!

Welcome to Fedora! I've grabbed your SWORD package review bug.

I look forward to seeing you flourish within Fedora! :)



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