Self Introduction:Sören Möller

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 05:27:22PM +0200, Soeren Moeller wrote:
> Hi
> 
> My name is Sören Möller and I'm working as statistician at a Danish
> University.
> 
> I have been using Linux for work and privately for at least 10 years, and
> Fedora for about 1.5 years
> 
> I have programming experience in C, C++, Java, Python and R, both from
> leisure activities, from my university education and from my current job,
> which includes some coding in R and C. Earlier I have done some patches for
> Libreoffice in my free time and work on some R-packages (both R and C code)
> for my day job.
> 
> I have followed Fedoras development for some months, and would like to
> become actively involved. I hope to take over maintainership of a small
> package as one of the first steps, and have been in contact with Randy
> Berry about maybe to take over the package "aldo" (a Morse code learning
> tool),.
> 
> i am in the process of completing the steps outlined in
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers.
> I already have read the packaging guidelines, created FAS and Bugzilla
> accounts, joined the important mailing lists (devel, test, package-announce
> and packaging) and set up git, fedora-packager and mock on my machine.
> 
> I have generated an aldo-0.7.7 RPM-package from the upstream soruces (the
> current version in Fedora is aldo-0.7.6). The packagese (binary and source)
> and the spec-file pass rpmlint, after some small corrections of the spec
> file (American English spelling and correcting an incorrect weekday in the
> changelog).
> 
> I now have build this package on koji (by "koji build --scratch ...") for
> f21, f22 and f23/rawhide:
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=10137982 (f21)
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=10137969 (f22)
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=10137468 (f23)
> apparently with success, if I correctly interpret the build outputs.
> Furthermore, I have build the package locally with mock for rawhide-x86_64
> and rawhide-i386 without apparent problems.
> 
> I will try to comment on package reviews of other packages during the next
> few days, to get a feeling for the review process.
Welcome!

http://fedoraproject.org/PackageReviewStatus might be useful if you're looking
for review tickets. You'd want the "new tickets" subcategory... and start
at the bottom, with the newest ones, and ignore green ones.

If you want to concentrate on scientific packages, you might want to add
yourself to CC list on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=FE-SCITECH,
and also look at current list of dependent tickets.

> Afterwards I will try to find a sponsor( as outlined in
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_get_sponsored_into_the_packager_group),
> to become a packager.

You mentioned rpmlint, but not fedora-review. I strongly suggest it, since
it does more interesting checks.

Zbyszek