Self Introduction: Alexander Ploumistos

[Alexander Ploumistos]

Hello everyone,

I've decided to join the package maintainers and I would like to introduce
myself.

I have been a linux user since 2001 and a Red Hat/Fedora user since 2003.
My main systems run on Fedora (of course) and Gentoo. I have a background
in chemistry, particularly molecular modeling and for the past decade I
have been working as a "general purpose IT guy" and part-time
web-developer. I build systems, I design and deploy SOHO networks, I do
some light pen-testing and provide tech support. I have experience coding
in Fortran, Perl, PHP, Python, shell scripts, (X)HTML/CSS, I have worked
with several CMSs -though in the past few years mostly with Joomla- and I
have built some customized versions of embedded distros such as OpenWRT and
other device-related software. During the past decade I have done
alpha/beta/QA testing for a number of projects (most of them FLOSS) and I
have provided translations and bug reports for others.

I would like to give back something more than bug reports and translations
and also improve my coding skills along the way. I have a couple of
programs that I would like to maintain, but for the moment there remains an
issue with their licenses.

There is also a patched version of libatasmart, that takes care of an issue
with several older Western Digital hard drives, that is awaiting review (
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157150) and I would really
appreciate it if someone could take the time to look into that.

Best Regards
Alexander

[Orion Poplawski]

On 10/31/2014 11:28 AM, Alexander Ploumistos wrote:
>  Hello everyone,
>  
>  I've decided to join the package maintainers and I would like to introduce myself.
...
>  There is also a patched version of libatasmart, that takes care of an
> issue
>  with several older Western Digital hard drives, that is awaiting review
>  (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157150) and I would really
>  appreciate it if someone could take the time to look into that.
>  
>  Best Regards
>  Alexander 
I've closed that NOTABUG - we already have libatasmart in Fedora.  Although
perhaps we need some new maintainers, even upstream.   Lennart - comments?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=921430
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61998

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[Alexander Ploumistos]

So am I allowed to submit it to bodhi, or does it still need to be approved
beforehand? I'm sorry for the mix-up, but it wasn't clear in the wiki.

2014-10-31 22:09 GMT+02:00 Orion Poplawski <orion(a)cora.nwra.com&gt;:

>  On 10/31/2014 11:28 AM, Alexander Ploumistos wrote:
>  > Hello everyone,
>  >
>  > I've decided to join the package maintainers and I would like to
>  introduce myself.
>  ...
>  > There is also a patched version of libatasmart, that takes care of an
>  issue
>  > with several older Western Digital hard drives, that is awaiting review
>  > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157150) and I would really
>  > appreciate it if someone could take the time to look into that.
>  >
>  > Best Regards
>  > Alexander
>
>  I've closed that NOTABUG - we already have libatasmart in Fedora.  Although
>  perhaps we need some new maintainers, even upstream.   Lennart - comments?
>
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=921430
>  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61998
>
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