On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 2:10 PM Aaron Rainbolt <arraybo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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!
Welcome to Fedora! I've grabbed your SWORD package review bug. I look forward to seeing you flourish within Fedora! :) -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
