Hello, I am looking for becoming a Mageia packager, hence for a mentor, per Mageia rules.
My background: I am a developer, professionally and for leisure. And I have been a Mandrake, then Mandriva, and lately Mageia user. Though I have been for some time users of other distributions, like Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo and some less known derivatives. Anyway I have never packaged a rpm up to today (I have only one experience of an .deb package) but have always wanted to do so because I regularly have to install manually softwares in my /usr/local (either because I can't find them, or because Mageia packages are outdated, or finally because the packaging is broken). So I finally decided to give it a go and propose my candidature. Note that I don't intend to be a "full time" packager. As I said, I develop. And I have other activities. So I don't have enough time to do everything unfortunately. I will prefer to focus on the few packages I encounter problems with (or softwares I develop). I already have a small TODO list (all the ones I needed and had to install myself recently): - Alchemy: http://al.chemy.org/ An interesting experimental drawing software. - odns: http://odns.tuxfamily.org/ An OCaml library I maintain, for querying DNS servers, accompanied by a CLI querying tool. - cinelerra: http://cinelerra.org/ A video editor - gstreamermm: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/bindings/cplusplus.html C++ binding to gstreamer - xcftools: http://henning.makholm.net/software A CLI tool to manipulate XCF (Gimp) files. - FAAC: http://www.audiocoding.com/faac.html MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 AAC encoder - subtitle editor: http://home.gna.org/subtitleeditor/ A tool to edit and create subtitles. - cld (compact language detector): http://code.google.com/p/chromium-compact-language-detector/ The language detector extracted from the Chromium code and packaged into its own self-contained library. I am one of the main committer on this library. It also has a Python binding (which would make a separate package). - tinysegmenter: http://lilyx.net/tinysegmenter-in-python/ A Japanese segmenter in Python. I completely repackaged it with an actual setup.py but the author is not responding. So I guess I am going to open a separate repository somewhere and will be the maintainer on it (I am already the pypi maintainer: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/tinysegmenter ). And I guess that's it for now. Hope that's a good start. :-) Jehan
