Hello, and thanks for your time.
I am a former (and possibly future) Ubuntu and Lubuntu Developer who
recently started using Fedora on some of my systems. I have about a year
of experience in Linux distro development from my previous work with
Lubuntu and Ubuntu. After trying Fedora, I liked it so much I decided I
wanted to contribute to it, and discovered that the SWORD package had
become orphaned and retired due to a bug in its Python bindings. As I
use SWORD and programs it depends on in my day-to-day work, I decided
I'd like to try to fix SWORD and become its maintainer.
Over the last few days I've worked to get the SWORD package into a
usable and policy-compliant state, including:
* Fixing the Python-related bug
* Updating the packaging to comply with the current Fedora Packaging
Guidelines
* Doing a full license audit of the SWORD code
* Clarifying the licensing of various files with upstream
* Asking for one non-free component to be relicensed under a
Fedora-compatible license (a request which was granted)
* Repacking the upstream tarball to remove optional non-free components
After discussion with the SWORD developers, I found that the original
maintainer of SWORD in Fedora also maintained Xiphos and Bibletime, two
applications which depend on SWORD and are closely related to it. For
this reason, I would like to become the maintainer of all three
ultimately, though for the moment I'm only actively pursuing
maintainership of SWORD since it's the only package that needs help at
the moment.
Depending on how things go, I also am interested in assisting with the
development of Fedora LXQt Spin, as it is quite similar to Lubuntu, a
project I worked closely with for about a year.
I hope I can be valuable to the Fedora community! Thanks for your help,
and have a great day!
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