Re: New contributor interested in taking maintainership of SWORD, Xiphos, and Bibletime
On 9/29/23 1:10 PM, Aaron Rainbolt 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! Heck yeah Aaron! Welcome to the party! I am glad you are here. :) Joe -- Joe Doss j...@solidadmin.com ___ 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
Re: New contributor interested in taking maintainership of SWORD, Xiphos, and Bibletime
Welcome to Fedora! Glad to have you here. On 29.09.2023 13:10, Aaron Rainbolt 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! ___ 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 signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ 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
Re: New contributor interested in taking maintainership of SWORD, Xiphos, and Bibletime
On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 2:10 PM Aaron Rainbolt 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
New contributor interested in taking maintainership of SWORD, Xiphos, and Bibletime
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! ___ 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
