Self-Introduction: Matthew Hall

[Matthew Hall]

1. Full legal name: Matthew Reid Hall
2. Country, City: UK, Leeds
3. Profession: IT Security Technician
4. Company: E-Commerce Security Consultants (ECSC) Ltd.

5. Goals in Fedora Project:

- Which packages do you want to see published?

In the short term:
Seahorse - GPG keymanager
Planner - Project management (old mrproject)
Inkscape - SVG image editor (sodipodi fork)
(I see some of these are already in testing (just checked))

Coming in the future (with a bit of polishing):
Pigeon - GTK2-based cd burner
gDesklets - Gnome desktop applets
Dashboard - Personal information association engine

- Do you want to do QA?

Given some free time, sure. I'll mostly be sticking to anything
gnome-related and x86 though.

- Anything else special?

I want to help with GNOME desktop integration. I mostly will focus on
the 'user-desktop experience' and try to make commonly required
applications available, easy to install/update and integrate well with
the desktop (small stuff like HIG compliance, menu items, mimetype
registration, etc).

6. Historical qualifications:

- What other projects have you worked on in the past?

I've maintained my own bleeding-edge gnome repository (mostly extra
packages and updates for rh 8/9 and fc1) for the last year and a half.
Previous to that, I spent time online helping some newbies figure out
linux whilst (missing) studying for my degree; so my rpms would be the
closest thing to a project, and the most major contribution to the
community I have made. 

- What computer languages and other skills do you know?

C, python, bash, sgml, docbook, html, php, sql (of varying ability).

- Why should we trust you?

If you can't trust a security 'expert', who can you trust? ;P

7. GPG KEYID and fingerprint: 
pub  1024D/2EABF3D5 2002-05-29 Matthew Hall (External e-mail)
<matt.hall(a)ecsc.co.uk&gt;
     Key fingerprint = AA89 2BEE FC42 5D64 8CA0  B325 C39C 53E5 2EAB F3D5
uid                            Matthew Hall (IT Security Technician. ECSC Ltd.)
<matt(a)ecsc.co.uk&gt;
uid                            Matthew Hall (Internal e-mail) <matt(a)ecsc.lan&gt;
sub  1024g/1B01AD27 2002-05-29 [expires: 2005-05-28]

Cheers,
	Matt

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[Michel Alexandre Salim]

Glad to see you here, Matt :) Looking forward to Dashboard in
particular, and if you could package Gstreamer and Rhythmbox for
rpm.livna.org as well it would be swell ..

Thanks,

- Michel

On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 21:42, Matthew Hall wrote:
>  1. Full legal name: Matthew Reid Hall
>  2. Country, City: UK, Leeds
>  3. Profession: IT Security Technician
>  4. Company: E-Commerce Security Consultants (ECSC) Ltd.
>   
[snip]

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:32:52 +0700, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:

>  Glad to see you here, Matt :) Looking forward to Dashboard in
>  particular, and if you could package Gstreamer and Rhythmbox for
>  rpm.livna.org as well it would be swell .. 
Would be very much appreciated if these had a maintainer:

  gstreamer-plugins-mp3
  http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52

  rhythmbox
  http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53
 
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[Julien Olivier]

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 09:32, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
>  Glad to see you here, Matt :) Looking forward to Dashboard in
>  particular, and if you could package Gstreamer and Rhythmbox for
>  rpm.livna.org as well it would be swell .. 
Why would you need rhythmbox in livna ? Isn't rhythmbox already in
Fedora ?
As for the patented codecs (mp3 for example), all you need (AFAIK) is
gstreamer-plugins-* where * is the desired plugin. Rhythmbox used to
need to be compiled against libid3 (is it the correct name ?) to support
MP3 tagging but it doesn't anymore (at least not for me).

-- 
Julien Olivier <julo(a)altern.org&gt;

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:23:08 +0000, Julien Olivier wrote:

>  On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 09:32, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
>  > Glad to see you here, Matt :) Looking forward to Dashboard in
>  > particular, and if you could package Gstreamer and Rhythmbox for
>  > rpm.livna.org as well it would be swell ..
>  
>  Why would you need rhythmbox in livna ? Isn't rhythmbox already in
>  Fedora ?
>  As for the patented codecs (mp3 for example), all you need (AFAIK) is
>  gstreamer-plugins-* where * is the desired plugin. Rhythmbox used to
>  need to be compiled against libid3 (is it the correct name ?) to support
>  MP3 tagging but it doesn't anymore (at least not for me). 
Can't reproduce that. It fails to recognize mp3 files if it isn't
rebuilt with id3lib.

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[Julien Olivier]

>  Can't reproduce that. It fails to recognize mp3 files if it
> isn't
>  rebuilt with id3lib.
>   
My mistake.

I've just found out that I do have id3lib installed...

Sorry :)

-- 
Julien Olivier <julo(a)altern.org&gt;

[Colin Walters]

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 06:19, Michael Schwendt wrote:

>  Can't reproduce that. It fails to recognize mp3 files if it
> isn't
>  rebuilt with id3lib. 
In the latest development version, all you need to do is install a
GStreamer MP3 plugin, and it will be able to load and play MP3s.  No
recompilation necessary.

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:11:38 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:

>  In the latest development version, all you need to do is install a
>  GStreamer MP3 plugin, and it will be able to load and play MP3s.  No
>  recompilation necessary. 
Okay. That doesn't change much, because as such a version from rhythmbox's
experimental branch is not in Fedora Core, 3rd party repositories still
need to provide it. So, whether they provide a release of rhythmbox
rebuilt with id3lib or an experimental CVS version, in either case the
user would need to update rhythmbox to get mp3 support.

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[Colin Walters]

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 17:45, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>  On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:11:38 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
>  
>  > In the latest development version, all you need to do is install a
>  > GStreamer MP3 plugin, and it will be able to load and play MP3s.  No
>  > recompilation necessary.
>  
>  Okay. That doesn't change much, because as such a version from rhythmbox's
>  experimental branch is not in Fedora Core, 3rd party repositories still
>  need to provide it. So, whether they provide a release of rhythmbox
>  rebuilt with id3lib or an experimental CVS version, in either case the
>  user would need to update rhythmbox to get mp3 support. 
I know, I was mostly just stating that for future reference...

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 17:59 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
>  On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 17:45, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>  > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:11:38 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
>  > 
>  > > In the latest development version, all you need to do is install a
>  > > GStreamer MP3 plugin, and it will be able to load and play MP3s.  No
>  > > recompilation necessary.
>  > 
>  > Okay. That doesn't change much, because as such a version from rhythmbox's
>  > experimental branch is not in Fedora Core, 3rd party repositories still
>  > need to provide it. So, whether they provide a release of rhythmbox
>  > rebuilt with id3lib or an experimental CVS version, in either case the
>  > user would need to update rhythmbox to get mp3 support.
>  
>  I know, I was mostly just stating that for future reference... 
I'm assuming this version of rhythmbox is the one being touted for GNOME
2.6, though, correct?  If so, then we should pull it in once we start
building packages for that (the current plan is for FC2 to have GNOME
2.6)

Jeremy

[Matt Jones]

Isn't the development version of rhythmbox dependent upon gstreamer
0.7.x (ie the devel version of that, which isn't supposed to stabilize
for some time, ie after gnome 2.6)? Or is this just the id3 tagging
support?

-- Matt Jones


>  I'm assuming this version of rhythmbox is the one being touted
> for GNOME
>  2.6, though, correct?  If so, then we should pull it in once we start
>  building packages for that (the current plan is for FC2 to have GNOME
>  2.6)
>  
>  Jeremy
>

[Colin Walters]

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 18:11, Jeremy Katz wrote:

>  I'm assuming this version of rhythmbox is the one being touted
> for GNOME
>  2.6, though, correct? 
Well, there was a fair amount of discussion about it on
desktop-devel-list, and key people seemed to think it would be better in
a separate package, not the core.  

I think even if it's not officially included in GNOME 2.6, we'll try to
stick roughly to the 2.6 schedule anyways.

>    If so, then we should pull it in once we start
>  building packages for that (the current plan is for FC2 to have GNOME
>  2.6) 
That'd be good, once we have an official development release out. 
Hopefully that'll be within a week or two.

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 04:32, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
>  Glad to see you here, Matt :) Looking forward to Dashboard in
>  particular, and if you could package Gstreamer and Rhythmbox for
>  rpm.livna.org as well it would be swell ..
>   
I can't imagine dashboard being in anything other than livna b/c of the
mono/c# requirement.

I thought the last time mono was brought up the response was 'patent
issues'

-sv