On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:20:24 +0800
Nicholas van Rheede van Oudtshoorn <vanoudt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
My name is Nicholas van Oudtshoorn - long time Fedora user, first
time
(hopefully!) contributor.
One of my jobs (apart from being a church pastor) involves taking
care of the IT systems for a local seminary here in Perth, Western
Australia. We've been running Fedora on our servers for several years
now - basically because it's the distro I find the most intuitive!
As part of my duties, I manage the seminary's library software - Koha.
Although this runs fine under Fedora, quite a few of it's
dependencies are not available in the Fedora repositories. Given the
number of libraries using koha (big and small - check out
http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_Users_Worldwide ), I suspect
that rectifying this could be of some use!
To this end, I've started packaging up build requirements. The first
package I've made (boy - it's more complex than it seems at first :-)
) is for the Zebra database engine. After that, I'd like to work on
the perl packages that are missing. (CPAN is useful - but yum is *so*
much easier!) I'd also like to see about updating the yaz package.
(yaz is currently available in Fedora - but is quite a few versions
behind the upstream)
Anywho - just thought I'd introduce myself. I've loved using Fedora
over the last years - and am excited about the possibility of giving
something back.
Excellent. Welcome to the fun!
kevin