Hello.
I'm a 2-years retired engineer with a tediously long resume - in short
I've been packaging RPMs for big and small companies for, ooooh, maybe
20 years. Unix since 1983, Linux since SLS days, kernel 0.9x, then
RedHat/Fedora. I started with Algol, Cobol and Fortran but jumped into
C as soon as I discovered it and loved it. Wrote crypto code for
RSA/BSafe, device drivers for Linux, HPUX, Solaris, AIX etc. Jenkins
CI/CD. Python mostly nowadays - a hobby.
I thought I knew a lot about RPM packaging but discovered there's a
lot of new stuff around and then there are the fedora strict
requirements (rightfully strict).
So, why am I here? I just recently made the jump to wayland / sway on
fedora and found that there were a few packages that I really wanted
but were not yet in fedora - so I built them in COPR for myself and
others to enjoy -
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/fc4qmt/fedora_package_of_wofi11_....
I suggest that though these packages may be minor and of secondary
importance that they will enhance the sway experience on fedora and
help the move away from X11 - as in my experience.
Some have started the journey into fedora and I had help from a
friendly guy who reviewed a library I packaged -
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1808276
Now I need to take the next step - if anyone wants to adopt one of
those packages, please go ahead (I think imv(1) is already spoken
for). Otherwise if I can have a sponsor I will do my best to get them
into the mainstream and support them.
That's enough from me, please don't hesitate to contact!
Cheers
Bob
Tamborine Mountain
Queensland
Australia