Self Introduction: Christopher Tubbs

[Christopher]

Thanks. I still have a bit of work to do before its ready for
review... mainly right now, it's missing control scripts and systemd
(units?). I'm hoping to have it ready for review soon.

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Christopher L Tubbs II
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On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 05/19/2014 07:51 PM, Christopher wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> My name is Christopher Tubbs. I'm a long-time user of Fedora and
>> Linux, and a big fan of free (as in speech) software. I love bigdata
>> and scientific computing, and consider myself a seasoned Java
>> developer and Maven user.
>
> Welcome!
>
>> I'm currently working on Apache Accumulo as my first package for
>> Fedora (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ApacheAccumulo). I'm
>> also an upstream developer for Accumulo project, which helps, because
>> there's a lot of patches I need to make to get it to build with the
>> dependency versions available in Fedora.
>>
>> I'm not yet in the package maintainers group, but my FAS account is
>> ctubbsii and I'm seeking a mentor (preferably one familiar with the
>> Hadoop ecosystem and Java packaging) to help me get all the kinks
>> worked out of my package. I'm still very new to the whole packaging
>> environment in Fedora, and trying to get a handle on understanding all
>> the infrastructure at Fedora needed to get things done. I definitely
>> need a mentor to help me understand the packaging process and tools in
>> the Fedora infrastructure (cgit, bugzilla, koji, etc.).
>
> If you need help feel free to ask on IRC (#fedora-java or
> #fedora-bigdata) or ping me directly.  (I am usually the one people come
> to with Maven-related packaging questions.)
>
> For formal sponsorship into packager group just submit a rewiew request.
>  I can sponsor you if no one else does.
>
>> My draft packaging is not yet done, but in progress here:
>> https://github.com/ctubbsii/accumulo-fedora (temporary)
>
> I had a quick look at the package and it looks good.  There are some
> things that could be improved, but it's more a matter of style and best
> practices rather than correctness.
>
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> Mikolaj Izdebski
> Software Engineer, Red Hat
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