Self Introduction: Jeff Schroeder

[Igor Gnatenko]

On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Jeff Schroeder
<jeffschroeder at computer.org> wrote:
> Hello Fedora Peeps,
Hi,
> My name is Jeff (fas: sejeff; github: SEJeff) and I've been a
> user/contributor to Fedora for some time now. My first contribution to
> Fedora was a Rhythmbox Bluecurve Theme[1] around 2005.
So much time...
> Professionally, I'm a
> systems automation engineer and have packaged rpms as part of my work duties
> as far back as 2006. I'm an avid desktop Linux user and am a co-maintainer
> of 2 somewhat well known open source projects saltstack's salt[2] and
> graphite[3]. I'm also a gnome.org sysadmin team alumni but haven't been very
> active the last 2 years due to work commitments.
Hope you will return back for gnome sysadm team ;)
>
> I'd like to become a Fedora packager for a few reasons that seem worth
> explaining here. First off, I'd like to be able to yum install both serf[4]
> and consul[5]. Secondly, as a co-maintainer of the graphite-project, I'd
> like to ensure the newest graphite bits are available in Fedora and
> eventually in EPEL. I know we've had a lot of users who struggled installing
> graphite-web and the cairos / pycairos dependencies on RHEL. I'd like to fix
> this by ensuring the necessary stuff is in EPEL so they can yum install it
> all.
Feel free to send this RPMed packages to the review!
> Thought I should say hi per the wiki docs.
Welcome on aboard!
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=157716
> [2] https://github.com/saltstack/salt
> [3] http://graphite.readthedocs.org
> [4] http://serfdom.io
> [5] http://consul.io
>
> --
> Jeff Schroeder
>
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-Igor Gnatenko