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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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