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Dear Devel-List: Please consider this the initial introduction of myself as a potential/future packager / co-maintainer. I have been "lurking" / using Fedora for the past 7 years when Fedora 8 released. I switched my workstation and server to CentOS when Fedora 16 released, but continued to assist with Fedora QA release testing and have enjoyed working with nirik, adamw, roshi, robatino and crew. I have personally found the tools of ffmpeg, vlc and mythtv very useful given my busy schedule and limited time for video entertainment. During the recent release of CentOS 7 I noticed that these packages were not in my usual 3rd party repo, due in part to supporting EPEL Packages not yet being branched. This led to study of mock / rpmbuild and eventually the Fedora Packager Page found at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers . I have not yet been chosen to co-maintain anything and I am not sure what I will package if anything, but wanted to introduce so as I monitor mailings and contribute reviews, people had some idea who Bob Lightfoot {boblfoot} is. It has been some years {read 1985 - 1990} since I've used a high level programming language {pascal, basic, rpg II} having focused on Relay Ladder Logic and Assembly Language coding in my work life. I recently started working more with bash script and have dabbled with perl and python but an no where near fluent in these key languages to date. We've come a long way since the old Trash 80's running basic, but some things haven't changed. Write clearly and document well never go out of style. I hope get to know you better and be known better as I journey into a value adding contributor.
Sincerely, Bob Lightfoot
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On 07/25/2014 09:58 PM, Bob Lightfoot wrote:
Dear Devel-List: Please consider this the initial introduction of myself as a potential/future packager / co-maintainer. I have been "lurking" / using Fedora for the past 7 years when Fedora 8 released. I switched my workstation and server to CentOS when Fedora 16 released, but continued to assist with Fedora QA release testing and have enjoyed working with nirik, adamw, roshi, robatino and crew. I have personally found the tools of ffmpeg, vlc and mythtv very useful given my busy schedule and limited time for video entertainment. During the recent release of CentOS 7 I noticed that these packages were not in my usual 3rd party repo, due in part to supporting EPEL Packages not yet being branched. This led to study of mock / rpmbuild and eventually the Fedora Packager Page found at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers
. I have not yet been chosen to co-maintain anything and I am not
sure what I will package if anything, but wanted to introduce so as I monitor mailings and contribute reviews, people had some idea who Bob Lightfoot {boblfoot} is. It has been some years {read 1985 - 1990} since I've used a high level programming language {pascal, basic, rpg II} having focused on Relay Ladder Logic and Assembly Language coding in my work life. I recently started working more with bash script and have dabbled with perl and python but an no where near fluent in these key languages to date. We've come a long way since the old Trash 80's running basic, but some things haven't changed. Write clearly and document well never go out of style. I hope get to know you better and be known better as I journey into a value adding contributor.
Sincerely, Bob Lightfoot
Dear Devel List: I can now add to the above that I have finally found a program I use worth packaging for Fedora/EPEL. The vassal gaming engine allows the playing/creation of many of your favorite board and card games on the PC. While the actual game modules amy wind up in a Third Party repo,due to licensing issues. I have not found anything in the base engine which would pose an issue. It was a trail to create the package due to the multiple licenses that the upstream developers used. There also were some license warnings which I've communicated to upstream, but none were errors. I've also created a man page entry for the program which upstream lacked. I hope someone will undertake to mentor me thru this next phase of Fedora/EPEL contribution on my part. I have my eyes on a few orphaned packages in EPEL once I am qualified to address them.
The review request can be found at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1132266 and the SPEC file at https://boblfoot.fedorapeople.org/vassal/vassal.spec with the SRPM at https://boblfoot.fedorapeople.org/vassal/vassal-3.2.13-1.el7.centos.src.rpm. There is also the rpmlint output and man file source at https://boblfoot.fedorapeople.org/vassal/.
Thanks for helping me on this journey.
Sincerely, Bob Lightfoot
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Bob Lightfoot