Re: Introduction/looking for a sponsor

[Charalampos Stratakis]

Hello Robert and welcome to Fedora!

Regards,

Charalampos Stratakis
Software Engineer
Python Maintenance Team, Red Hat


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Mauchin" <zebob.m(a)gmail.com&gt;
To: devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2017 1:34:23 PM
Subject: Introduction/looking for a sponsor

Hello,

My name is Robert-André and I'm looking to become a packager for Fedora.

I'm 33 years-old Frenchman. I first tried GNU/Linux in the late 90
with Debian and what was
then Mandrake. Back then with no Internet, I remember It was tough to
get set up and find
help. After a Windows period, I got back to Linux in 2005 with
Ubuntu's Hoary Hedgehog
release. It was simple, almost everything worked out of the box, and I
could work without
having to « look under the hood » to make it work.

Following what I thought was questionable relations between Ubuntu and
upstreams, and their
choices to reinvent the wheel, i decided look for alternative
distributions. First Debian which
was close to what I've been using, and then Fedora. I had some
reservation about Fedora
because last time I had tried one (Fedora 16, Verne), the package
manager was quite slow
compared to apt-get. And this meant a lot to relearn. But I was
quickly conquered by its simplicity
and its « freshness ». And then dnf came around, it was fast and easy
to use, and I haven't left
Fedora since then.

Thanks to the French fedora-fr wiki which explains step-by-step how to
make your own package,
 I've recently started to package my own things using the COPR service:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/eclipseo/
And now I'm looking to get them into Fedora. I've learned Fedora
Packaging Guidelines, and how
to use the various tool like rpmbuild, fedpkg, mock, Koji…

Here's a few of the projects I want to include:
 - rclone: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1473314 This Go
app allows you to sync your
files among different Cloud services. I had to unbundled it so it
spawned a dozen of new packages
to build (see the dependencies).
 - qdirstat: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1476201 It's
an app that allow you to track
how your disk space is used, like k4dirstart, but written in Qt5.
 - libva-intel-hydrid-driver
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1475962 This driver
enables
video hardware acceleration for VP9 decoding on Skylake/Kabylake
platforms. (dependency cmrt:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1475961)

Since I proposed my packages, I've also started to do other reviews:
 - libcbor: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1474694
 - clustersos: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1476438
 - danmaQ: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1471806
 - xfce4-statusnotifier-plugin:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1476489
 - libsemigroups: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1476085
 - tpm2-abrmd: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1475228

So if you like my work so far, please consider sponsoring me for the
packaging team o/

Thank you.

Robert-André

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