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