Hi everyone,
Some background on me: I've been working with Linux since 1995 in a variety of capacities. I'm fascinated by file systems, configuration and system management technologies.
I'm the author of RPMCoW[1]. This was recently accepted for Fedora 34. I aim to provide the new features first as patches to rpm[2] and librepo[3] along with a new package dnf-plugin-cow[4] which I will submit shortly. Given the deadlines for Fedora 34, I expect to iterate the patches against the upstream sources[5][6] in parallel with the forks/PRs on the package sources.
I'm presenting (virtually) this work at CentOS Dojo @ FOSDEM 2021[7]. I anticipate the talk will be recorded. To date my best explanations have been facilitated by use of diagrams and simple animation. I expect to eventually write a white paper on this topic, but as time is a precious resource, I am inclined to focus on making this available to all first.
I am excited to finally contribute back to the community which has given so much. Cheers!
- Matthew
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RPMCoW [2] https://src.fedoraproject.org/fork/malmond/rpms/rpm [3] https://src.fedoraproject.org/fork/malmond/rpms/librepo [4] https://github.com/facebookincubator/dnf-plugin-cow [5] https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/1470 [6] https://github.com/rpm-software-management/librepo/pull/222 [7] https://hopin.com/events/centos-dojo-fosdem
On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 11:27:28PM +0000, Matthew Almond via devel wrote:
I'm the author of RPMCoW[1]. This was recently accepted for Fedora 34.
Welcome, and thanks for pushing interesting new ideas into Fedora!