Re: Self Introduction: Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden

[Dan Čermák]

Hi Ewoud and welcome to the pack!

You might also be interested in joining the Ruby SIG
(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Ruby?rd=Ruby_SIG) as well.


Cheers,

Dan

Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden <ewoud+fedora(a)kohlvanwijngaarden.nl&gt; writes:

> Hello everyone,
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers 
> recommended to introduce myself so here it is.
>
> My name is Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden (commonly known as ekohl) and I in 
> my day job I work on the Foreman project[1]. Historically I've mostly 
> been involved with the (Puppet-based) installer but over time I've also 
> worked on most aspects of the project. Most notably I've also done quite 
> a bit of the packaging[2].
>
> Right now I want to become a Fedora maintainer to improve the state of 
> the Puppet package and its dependencies. It's totally broken in Fedora 
> 34 which is holding back my F33 -> F34 upgrade.
>
> I've also contributed patches upstream and have a good working 
> relationship with Puppet (formerly Puppetlabs).
>
> As a start I've reviewed a PR to update Facter[3].
>
> Something else I'd like to do is bring puppet-resource_api into Fedora. 
> Right now it's only packaged for EPEL8[4] but we'd need it in Fedora 
> too.
>
> Once that's all done, I'd like to update Puppet itself from 5.5.20 
> (incompatible with Ruby 3) to 7.7.0. I have a patch ready, but need to 
> fix it to also package the bundled modules.
>
> So a concrete list of packages I'd be interested in keeping up to date:
> * https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/facter
> * https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/puppet
> * https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rubygem-puppet-resource_api
>
> Regards,
> Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden
>
> [1]: https://theforeman.org/
> [2]: https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-packaging
> [3]: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/facter/pull-request/7
> [4]: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rubygem-puppet-resource_api
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