Re: Self-Introduction: Daniel Moerner

[Lailah]

Hello Daniel and welcome!


On 17/01/17 17:45, Daniel Moerner wrote:
>  Hi everyone,
>
>  My name is Daniel Moerner. I am interested in contributing to Fedora as
>  a package maintainer. My GPG key fingerprint is BBD6 4965 3FB1 47F3 C7CD
>    0A30 CB3D 014E D7F1 B32A. I live in New Haven, CT, where I am a PhD
>  student in philosophy at Yale University.
>
>  My first Linux distribution was Fedora Core 1, and I've been using Linux
>  full-time since 2007. In my earlier years I contributed to Debian
>  development, focusing on tools for lightweight WMs (including pekwm,
>  tint2) and interpreters for functional programming languages (including
>  ypsilon, smlnj). I was a member of the debian-maintainers keyring from
>  2009-2010, before stepping down due to lack of time. I am a bit older
>  now, and I have the time and interest to commit to contributing to
>  Fedora, which I use on all of my machines.
>
>  I have two main areas I want to contribute to in Fedora. First, I am
>  still interested in functional programming, particularly in Standard ML.
>  Fedora's support for SML is currently a bit poor, and I hope to work to
>  improve it. Second, I am interested in games and game emulators,
>  building on Fedora's recent change in their policy on emulators. I have
>  already introduced myself to the Games SIG, and I don't want to repeat
>  too much here.[1] I will just say that I find game emulators fascinating
>  from both a technical and historical/archival perspective.
>
>  I also love documentation, especially man pages. (Who doesn't?) I view
>  writing manpages and submitting them upstream as part of my role as a
>  packager. I feel the same way about QA work; I recently wrote and
>  submitted a basic manpage upstream for a recent practice review I
>  completed.[2]
>
>  Recently, I've been spending more time in IRC under my handle, dmoerner.
>
>  Here is a link for my first review request, the Game Boy and Game Boy
>  Color emulator Gearboy, for which I need a sponsor:
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1414087
>
>  I tried to include all the relevant information in the review request
>  for any potential sponsor.
>
>  I look forward to being involved in Fedora!
>
>  Best,
>  Daniel
>
>  [1]
>
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail].o...
>  [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1410651#c1
>
>
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