Self introduction and sponsorship request

[Jerry James]

Welcome!

2012/4/24 Paulo César Pereira de Andrade
<paulo.cesar.pereira.de.andrade at gmail.com>:
>  I would like to contribute to SciTech SIG. I notice there is
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/SciTech/SAGE, and actually, I have
> packaged sagemath in Mandriva, and kept the package functional and updated
> to latest upstream for around 3 years.
>
>  Sagemath itself depends on roughly 300 different upstream packages, and
> other packages I would like to contribute at some point is salome, that
> I also packaged in Mandriva, http://www.salome-platform.org/. Currently it
> is not functional in Mandriva cooker but should be in released versions,
> I got a hacked workaround described at
> https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=65396

Note that the wiki page doesn't really describe the current state of
Sage packaging in Fedora.  After I sent multiple unanswered emails on
the subject to the scitech list, I made my own page to track progress:

http://software.jamezone.org/Fedora/sage.html

I update it about once per month.  I've run into so many license
problems while working on Sage components that I wonder how you ever
came up with a coherent set of packages for Mandriva.  Perhaps you
excluded the components I've had trouble with.  Anyhow, help packaging
the remaining components would be most welcome.

Regards,
-- 
Jerry James
http://www.jamezone.org/