On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Olav Vitters <[email protected]> wrote: > [ Initially I something similar to this to tombhadAC because he's > involved with GNOME packaging, but think he's busy as I didn't get a > response ] > > I'd like to join the Mageia packaging team. > > I'm interested to help ensure Cauldron > 1) has the latest GNOME packages available. Meaning: upgrade the micro > versions. I'm involved in GNOME (sysadmin, release team) and I use > Mageia myself, so that is the reason why I want to help Mageia. > 2) possibly add packages from Cooker that are not available in Cauldron > (I'm a *long* time Mandriva/Mandrake user). My main interest is with the > GNOME packages though. > > Experience in rpm packaging: Never created a spec file from scratch, but > have often changed existing spec files (minor changes such as version > changes, addition/removing of patches and so on) and sometimes had to > redo a patch (mostly Python; not a C developer). Done that when needed > over the last ~5 years or so across various distributions > (Mandrake/Fedora/RHEL and even a few times .deb on Ubuntu). > > Note: My interest is mainly to stay a novice packager. So to help out on > the easy stuff. People in #mageia-dev mentioned that this is fine. > > Someone willing to act as a mentor? > > If yes, could you arrange the permissions I'd need? My SSH public key is > at http://www.gnome.org/~ovitters/id_rsa.pub and my identity / userid at > Mageia is ovitters. > -- > Regards, > Olav >
i can be your mentor if you want i have a free slot :)
