[fedora-arm] Hello

[Siddharth Waikar]

On 07/19/2012 12:14 PM, Niels de Vos wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Siddharth Waikar <swaikar at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 07/18/2012 12:43 PM, Jon Masters wrote:
>>> On 07/18/2012 12:51 AM, Siddharth Waikar wrote:
>>>> Is there any active project where I can contribute?
>>> Hi Siddharth!
>>>
>>> There are various things happening right now to get Fedora 18 in shape.
>>> Do you have experience with packaging? Or perhaps you're a coder looking
>>> for something to poke at? Let us know what you're in to.
>>>
>>> Jon.
>> Hey jon thank you reply.
>>
>> I am working with SEG team based at pune.
>> Yes I have some experience with packaging. In my role I have created test
>> packages using brew / dist-git methods. Recently I added myself to
>> maintainer for giflib package.
>>
>> I like to code for projects. I am ready if you have any idea to dig into.
>> looking forward for positive response.
> Welcome Siddarth!
>
> Well, for starters there is the ARMTracker Bug in Bugzilla. It
> contains a lot of references to bugs that are ARM specific:
> - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=245418&hide_resolved=1
>
> Most of them are build failures, some happen during %build, others in
> automated test suites. Attaching patches against the BZs and
> potentially sending them upstream seems to help. Most maintainers
> happily apply the patches and push an update. If that fails, you can
> ask someone with "proven packager" rights to make the packaging
> changes for you.
>
> Other things include improving qemu/libvirt to emulate an ARM platform
> on other (x86_64) hardware. Last time I tried it on Fedora, I had to
> manually modify the guest .xml files.
>
> Cheers,
> Niels
Thanks Niels I will  check and get back to you :)