Self introduction: Benson Muite

2016-08-13 Thread Benson Muite
Hi, Am interested in making it easier to use integrated GPUs within Fedora, particularly using OpenCL. Initial package working on can be found at: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/fed500/clrng-intel/ Thanks, Benson -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: OpenCL libraries based on cl math

2016-08-13 Thread Benson Muite
wrote: Actually you don't need to build for each platform some library. Platform should be chosen at runtime. On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 5:31 PM, Benson Muite <benson_mu...@emailplus.org> wrote: Thanks for the welcome, still learning how to write spec files. Working initially on clrng using b

OpenCL libraries based on cl math

2016-08-13 Thread Benson Muite
aboard! On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Benson Muite <benson_mu...@emailplus.org> wrote: Hi, Am interested in making it easier to use integrated GPUs within Fedora, particularly using OpenCL. Initial package working on can be found at: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/fed500/clrng

Re: OpenCL libraries based on cl math

2016-08-13 Thread Benson Muite
. Where can I find and download beignet spec files so can test it out on more architectures in koji? On 08/13/2016 07:32 PM, Igor Gnatenko wrote: On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 6:29 PM, Benson Muite <benson_mu...@emailplus.org> wrote: Beignet is Intel specific. HSA is upcoming and looks like

Re: Sponsorship request

2017-01-22 Thread Benson Muite
Hi, For testing build on more architectures, consider using koji: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_the_Koji_build_system Benson On 01/22/2017 08:08 PM, Mark Harfouche wrote: Hello, My name is Mark Harfouche and I would like to help package chrome gnome shell integration for Fedora.

Re: Video performance degradation in F24

2016-09-07 Thread Benson Muite
Blog post here may be relevant: https://streamcomputing.eu/blog/2016-09-06/transition-period-for-fglrx-to-amdgpurocm-no-kernel-4-4-or-xorg-1-18-support/ Not sure exact hardware you are using, so may not be directly relevant. If it is, there is a recent Fedora magazine article on applying

Re: TBB license change and package rebuilds - openmp issues

2016-09-09 Thread Benson Muite
On 09/09/2016 07:37 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: On Friday, 09 September 2016 at 18:22, Orion Poplawski wrote: On 09/09/2016 08:24 AM, Jerry James wrote: There is no soname bump in this release, but one section of the API changed in a backwards-incompatible way. If they broke

Re: [Fwd: build perl problem on mythtv]

2016-09-11 Thread Benson Muite
On 09/11/2016 08:11 AM, Sérgio Basto wrote: On Sáb, 2016-09-10 at 18:14 +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote: On Sáb, 2016-09-10 at 18:05 +0200, Igor Gnatenko wrote: On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote: this is a 3rd part repo but you may have better acknowledgment

Re: Self Introduction

2016-09-21 Thread Benson Muite
Hello /Bom Dia! Welcome/Bem-vindo! On 09/18/2016 08:28 PM, Sylvia wrote: Hello world, My name is Sylvia, I write articles in the Fedora Magazine and translate for Spanish and Portuguese teams. Also I design sometimes, but just for fun, I'm not in the team. Now I'm starting over with

Re: Self Introduction: Guido Aulisi

2016-09-07 Thread Benson Muite
Welcome! Look forward to using your contributions and listening to your compositions. On 09/06/2016 11:54 PM, Guido Aulisi wrote: Hi all, I'm GNU/Linux system administrator and a musician too. During my working hours I maintain Linux servers, mostly RedHat distributions, but during my free

Re: Council Elections - July/August 2017 - Result announcement

2017-08-15 Thread Benson Muite
Would be happy to help with linking interviews. Benson On 08/15/2017 08:08 PM, Brian Exelbierd wrote: On Tue, Aug 15, 2017, at 05:49 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > Just linking to the User page is not enough, > because those vary widely and often don't contain any info relevant

Re: Is it possible atlas is linked wrongly by new binutils?

2017-08-17 Thread Benson Muite
On 08/17/2017 12:05 AM, Dan Horák wrote: On Wed, 16 Aug 2017 22:57:28 +0200 Kevin Kofler wrote: Dave Love wrote: Kevin Kofler writes: If you are talking about the missing RPM AutoProvides: Provides: libblas.so.3()(64bit) does wonders. I mean you need to get the

Re: Fedora Elections to FESCo & FAmSCo - Voting period is in progress

2017-08-17 Thread Benson Muite
Is it possible for the people who are running and have not answered interview questions for the blog or have an informative profile to do so? Voting is not limited to relevant group, so some information on election options is helpful. One can of course do a web search, email list posting and

Re: Need assistance to build knotter for Fedora

2017-08-18 Thread Benson Muite
Ok, will take a look at this. On 08/18/2017 01:54 AM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: Following the request from Design team, I struggle to package Knotter for review due to failure related to Qt5. https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=21287726 As I am not familiar with Qt5. Can

Re: F25 builds a library with AVX, causes SIGILL on AMD

2017-05-23 Thread Benson Muite
Hi, Will this mean that repository builds will typically have poor performance to support portability? Benson On 05/23/2017 08:15 AM, Pete Zaitcev wrote: On Mon, 22 May 2017 23:00:14 -0600 Pete Zaitcev wrote: As much as I can tell, there's nothing custom in CFLAGS in

Re: Self introduction: Aivar Annamaa

2017-10-23 Thread Benson Muite
Hi Aivar, Welcome to Fedora. Python special interest group may have helpful suggestions as well: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Python They have a separate mailing list. Regards, Benson On 10/20/2017 02:53 PM, Aivar Annamaa wrote: Hi! I am computer science teaching assistant in

Re: Self Introduction: Jaroslav Prokop

2017-12-01 Thread Benson Muite
Welcome to Fedora! On 11/30/2017 07:25 PM, Jaroslav Prokop wrote: Hi everyone, my name is Jaroslav, Jarek for short, I am 16 years old student, I live and study in Brno, Czech Republic. I am beginner in the world of programming, right now I am working on becoming rpm packager. For now I

Re: Status of OwnCloud/NextCloud

2018-05-02 Thread Benson Muite
On 05/02/2018 05:52 PM, James Hogarth wrote: On 2 May 2018 at 12:11, Marek Greško wrote: Randy, it is the same with nextcloud. To keep people up to date ... I figured I'd do owncloud first as that looked a simple single version jump ... There was much pain that

Re: Write permissions on Fedora Wiki

2018-01-02 Thread Benson Muite
For me, Fedora marketing was the group to do this - though seems other subprojects such as PackageMaintainers, magazine, documentation should also work: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Project_Wiki Benson On 01/02/2018 05:05 PM, Zdenek Dohnal wrote: Hi, this is probably kind of

Re: Status of OwnCloud/NextCloud

2018-04-04 Thread Benson Muite
So, I don't think we can update the package from 10 to 13, thus breaking all user installations. I see 2 possible way The classical one - create nextcloud11, nextcloud12 and nextcloud13 packages and also future versions, older can be removed when EOLed by upstream (so nextcloud +

Re: Self Introduction: Arsenick - René Jr Purcell

2018-03-20 Thread Benson Muite
Hi, Welcome to Fedora. There is a security lab that may also be of interest and worth contributing to: https://labs.fedoraproject.org/en/security/ Qubes (https://www.qubes-os.org/) also builds ontop of Fedora as a base. Regards, Benson On 03/20/2018 04:04 AM, Rene Jr Purcell wrote: Hi

Re: Self Introduction: Carmen

2018-11-04 Thread Benson Muite
Bonvenon! On 10/30/2018 02:03 PM, Carmen Bianca Bakker wrote: Hi all, The contribution guide thingamajig told me to post a short message here. So as follows: I am Carmen from Friesland, The Netherlands. I am currently working on GNOME to make the GNOME desktop available in Esperanto. At the

Re: Introduction for gaming packaging/maintaining

2019-04-08 Thread Benson Muite
Hi Andi, Welcome to Fedora. Some general information is at: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/ The get involved page still needs an update: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/join/ but packaging guidelines are here: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/

Re: Self Introduction: Gordon Messmer

2019-05-28 Thread Benson Muite
Hi Gordon, Welcome to Fedora! On 5/28/19 8:58 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: Hello, My name is Gordon Messmer.  I've been a long-time user of Red Hat systems, starting with Red Hat Linux 4.2 in 1997.  I've been packaging software in rpm format for use in business environments for very nearly

Re: OpenCL on Intel processors

2019-08-12 Thread Benson Muite
Ok. Arm and AMD also support OpenCL https://developer.arm.com/solutions/graphics/apis/opencl https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm-OpenCL-Runtime https://rocm.github.io/install.html AMD part for OpenCL only seems to be MIT licensed. On 8/12/19 9:24 AM, Igor Gnatenko wrote: I've dropped

Re: OpenCL on Intel processors

2019-08-12 Thread Benson Muite
On 8/11/19 3:19 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: On Thursday, 08 August 2019 at 08:19, Benson Muite wrote: Hi, Beignet has been deprecated, might it be possible to put Intel(R) Graphics Compute Runtime for OpenCL(TM) in the Fedora repositories? There is a COPR repository at: https

Re: Donate 1 minute of your time to test upgrades from F30 to F31

2019-09-12 Thread Benson Muite
On 9/12/19 9:52 AM, Miroslav Suchý wrote: Dne 11. 09. 19 v 17:14 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek napsal(a): sudo dnf module disable libgit2 standard-test-roles sudo dnf remove rust-libgit2-sys-devel sudo dnf upgrade libgit2 sudo dnf module reset libgit2 is option as well. Thanks this worked.

Re: Donate 1 minute of your time to test upgrades from F30 to F31

2019-09-11 Thread Benson Muite
A few errors reported when testing on KDE (one ticket for problem 4 at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1751242): Error:  Problem 1: package plasma-discover-snap-5.15.5-1.fc30.x86_64 requires plasma-discover = 5.15.5-1.fc30, but none of the providers can be installed   -

OpenCL on Intel processors

2019-08-08 Thread Benson Muite
Hi, Beignet has been deprecated, might it be possible to put Intel(R) Graphics Compute Runtime for OpenCL(TM) in the Fedora repositories? There is a COPR repository at: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jdanecki/intel-opencl/ Is there a means by which generation of CPU and GPU being

Re: Beginner SPECfile Guide

2019-07-19 Thread Benson Muite
Possibly helpful: https://rpm-packaging-guide.github.io/ https://openbuildservice.org/help/ Result of a search: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=spec+file+tutorial On 7/19/19 12:53 PM, Lukas Javorsky wrote: Hello, I was wondering if there is some kind of video guide from some

Re: portable performance engineering

2019-07-23 Thread Benson Muite
Tradeoffs to satisfy a wide variety of users - a base system with most common software easy to try which can then be re-installed for performance. Flatpacks should help with easy but not performance optimal installation of many packages. Spack (https://spack.io/) may be a packaging approach

Re: Should we discontinue the Python Classroom Lab?

2019-12-05 Thread Benson Muite
On 12/5/19 1:44 PM, Miro Hrončok wrote: Hello, I'd like to know whether it makes sense to continue maintaining and producing the Fedora Python Classroom Lab. Do any schools use this?  Possibly an edition for use in a school/university computer lab or internet cafe may be more useful, with

Re: Subject: Self Introduction: Francis Gesora

2020-02-25 Thread Benson Muite
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020, at 11:17 AM, Francis Gesora wrote: > Hi All, > > I am Francis, based in Nairobi, Kenya. > > I am joining as a package maintainer to assist Ankur manage xmedcon and deps > as i get up to speed with package maintenance. Hello/Hujambo Gesora, Awesome to have you here.

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-25 Thread Benson Muite
On 1/26/20 8:25 AM, Bill Chatfield via devel wrote: I think that by applying basic engineering techniques like user testing we can weed out ideologies that don't provide any value to users. Do the testing and let the results decide.The principles of ISO 9000 can be applied to improve

Re: Self Introduction: Chihurumnaya Ibiam

2020-02-19 Thread Benson Muite
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020, at 2:20 AM, Chihurumnaya Ibiam wrote: > Good day, > > I've been working mostly with python at Sugar Labs for some time now, I'm yet > to file a review request but I'm currently helping co-maintain the sugar* > packages; > I'm from Nigeria. > > I'm glad to be part of

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-13 Thread Benson Muite
On 1/12/20 9:38 AM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: The challenge about upstream is when they lack activity for years and contributions are very difficult when users lack knowledge of coding without proper guidance. For example, attempting to improve say CellWriter (sorely missing due to the lack of

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-15 Thread Benson Muite
On 1/15/20 8:33 PM, Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote: On 1/7/20 11:14 AM, Iñaki Ucar wrote: I'm far from having a satisfactory response to that, but I see two fronts here. First, marketing. How does Ubuntu managed to be so popular among less-experienced Linux users? I'm not sure, but I

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-14 Thread Benson Muite
On 1/14/20 10:34 AM, Benson Muite wrote: On 1/14/20 9:00 AM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: On 2020-01-13 12:56 a.m., Benson Muite wrote: On 1/12/20 9:38 AM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: The challenge about upstream is when they lack activity for years and contributions are very difficult when

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-13 Thread Benson Muite
On 1/14/20 9:00 AM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: On 2020-01-13 12:56 a.m., Benson Muite wrote: On 1/12/20 9:38 AM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: The challenge about upstream is when they lack activity for years and contributions are very difficult when users lack knowledge of coding without proper

Re: Self Introduction: William Brawner

2019-12-30 Thread Benson Muite
On 12/31/19 3:32 AM, William Brawner wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi everyone! I've been using Linux in one way or another since 2015, around the same time I got into software development. I'm self-taught, though I'd like to go to school eventually. I started out

Re: peek package

2020-01-01 Thread Benson Muite
On 1/2/20 9:18 AM, Artem Tim wrote: What is alternative to Peek? OBS Studio is totally different beast. OBS more advanced, using Qt framework, available only in RPM Fusion repo. Users asked many time about this Peek and why it is not available in repo and they really like it because of their

Re: peek package

2020-01-02 Thread Benson Muite
On 1/2/20 11:37 AM, Tom Hughes wrote: On 02/01/2020 06:53, Benson Muite wrote: There are a number of screen recording alternatives that are simpler than OBS Studio, including vokoscreen, Kazam, Simplescreenrecorder etc, The main problem is that most depend on FFMPEG. FFMPEG has a license

Re: peek package

2020-01-02 Thread Benson Muite
On 1/2/20 12:05 PM, Benson Muite wrote: On 1/2/20 11:37 AM, Tom Hughes wrote: On 02/01/2020 06:53, Benson Muite wrote: There are a number of screen recording alternatives that are simpler than OBS Studio, including vokoscreen, Kazam, Simplescreenrecorder etc, The main problem is that most

Re: peek package

2020-01-07 Thread Benson Muite
Awesome! On 1/8/20 10:09 AM, Artem Tim wrote: vokoscreenNG packaged now. Nice to have such app available in official repos. F31: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-a489a2436a F30: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-aa27dbce21

Re: The Chromium Dilemma

2020-04-13 Thread Benson Muite
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020, at 5:21 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > Honestly, degraded performance is an expected result of doing component > build, so I would say that's just not a bug at all, it's just how > Chromium works. Our hand is forced here by upstream's strange and > unusual packaging

Re: Self Introduction: Dev Singh

2020-04-13 Thread Benson Muite
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020, at 7:12 PM, Dev Singh wrote: > Hello everyone, > My name is Dev Singh and I am a student developer in the Chicagoland area in > the US. I have worked in various open-source applications and in FRC > robotics. I am hoping to be the package manager for the `thinkpad-tools`

Re: f32-backgrounds

2020-04-20 Thread Benson Muite
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020, at 5:56 AM, Paul Dufresne via devel wrote: > Le 20-04-17 à 09 h 09, Benson Muite a écrit : > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020, at 4:02 PM, Leigh Scott wrote: > > Elections for alternative wallpapers are currently open: > > https://apps.fedoraproject.org/nuancier/

Re: f32-backgrounds look like crap

2020-04-17 Thread Benson Muite
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020, at 4:02 PM, Leigh Scott wrote: > > Hi Leigh, > > > > > > Do you think you could please use nicer language? There's no need to > > use words like that to describe other people's work in the community. > > That was the nicest term I could use to describe it! > > > > > I

Re: kinit: Password incorrect while getting initial credentials

2020-03-30 Thread Benson Muite
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020, at 8:57 PM, Paul Dufresne via devel wrote: > I am trying to follow instructions at: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers > > But when I do: > [paul@localhost ~]$ kinit pa...@fedoraproject.org > I get: > Password for

Re: Self Introduction: Mark Olesen

2020-03-23 Thread Benson Muite
On Mon, Mar 23, 2020, at 9:47 PM, Mark Olesen wrote: > I'm involved in the development of OpenFOAM (www.openfoam.com), which is > a GPL open source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software package. > > To improve the overall coverage, I've been generating Fedora/RedHat > packages using

Re: Need help with my packages

2020-03-17 Thread Benson Muite
On Mon, Mar 2, 2020, at 12:30 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > I have too many packages that I am the maintainer for and need help. If > you would like to help out by either becoming a co-maintainer or > becoming the primary maintainer, please let me know. The full list > follows. Many of these I

Re: Self Introduction: Nurmukhamed Artykaly

2020-07-22 Thread Benson Muite
On 7/22/20 9:31 AM, Nurmukhamed Artykaly wrote: I am an IT engineer, sysadmin, programmer, DevOps, SRE. I study new technologies. My Blog is dedicated to IT technologies and (or) events related to IT in Kazakhstan, the CIS and the world. Hi Nurmukhamed, Welcome to Fedora. We look forward to

Re: Self Introduction: Nikolay Nikolov

2020-07-04 Thread Benson Muite
On 7/5/20 4:47 AM, nick...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, My name is Nikolay Nikolov. I'm a software developer and free/open source enthusiast. I've been using Linux since Red Hat Linux 5.0. After Red Hat Linux 9, I upgraded to Fedora Core 1 and I've used every Fedora version since then. :) I'm a core

Re: Self-introduction

2020-06-03 Thread Benson Muite
On 6/3/20 3:31 AM, Егор Артёмов wrote: Hello there! I am a C enthusiast from Russia. I'm using Fedora already for 12 years and now feel that I can contribute. I am living in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, and working as C++ and Go developer in enterprise and gamedev. I love Fedora and want to

Re: Syngrafias - AsciiDocs Collaboration Tool for Fedora Documentation Maintainers, Available for testing

2020-12-29 Thread Benson Muite
On 12/29/20 2:01 PM, Nasir Hussain wrote: Hi, We'd like to announce the public testing of Syngrafias, an Asciidoctor collaboration tool - a service for Fedora documentation maintainers aiming to provide an environment where they can collaborate by sharing their workspace among multiple

Re: Orphaning nodeja-svgo

2020-12-21 Thread Benson Muite
On 12/22/20 9:25 AM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: Due to multiple missing nodejs dependencies needed for nodejs-svgo, I had to orphan it. That plugin was intended for Inkscape sgvo. Maintainers are welcome to grab it. https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/nodejs-svgo How does this compare to

Re: video meeting to discuss Matrix/Element and IRC

2020-11-19 Thread Benson Muite
I'm not going to give a firm recommendation for or against any platform but I'd like to make two suggestions: a) why not slow the process down and allow more ideas to come forward? There is no urgent need to change things in a month or whatever. This is a reasonable suggestion. Since one can

Re: Self Introduction: Serhei Makarov

2021-01-19 Thread Benson Muite
On 1/18/21 11:41 PM, Serhei Makarov wrote: Hello all, My name is Serhei Makarov. Welcome. Your class scheduler: https://github.com/serhei/course-scheduler seems useful. Maybe it can be ported to C/C++/Ruby and packaged? ___ devel mailing list --

Re: Syngrafias - AsciiDocs Collaboration Tool for Fedora Documentation Maintainers, Available for testing

2021-01-03 Thread Benson Muite
On 1/4/21 9:28 AM, Akashdeep Dhar wrote: Hello, The suggestions made here https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CXXZ6YIL22Y34SIFT6XWK3DL3FD5VCLF/ and

Re: dropping php-imap (was Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers)

2021-02-10 Thread Benson Muite
On 2/10/21 5:00 PM, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: Joe Orton wrote: In my view it makes sense to drop it from Fedora 35+ and take the pain of disabling functionality until the various upstreams switch to alternatives. Hopefully Remi can comment on alternatives. I guess

Re: dropping php-imap (was Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers)

2021-02-13 Thread Benson Muite
On 2/13/21 1:48 PM, Miro Hrončok wrote: On 09. 02. 21 12:17, Joe Orton wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 06:43:29PM +, Gwyn Ciesla via devel wrote: Can uw-imap be replaced with something else, or should someone pick it up? There has not been an upstream release since 2007 - the maintainer

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-15 Thread Benson Muite
On 10/15/21 5:13 AM, Michal Schorm wrote: Thinking about this more, I always get to a question: "Who are the consumers of that information and what do they actually use it for?" My personal idea is that the _ recommended _ requirements (of any OS) are seeked by people that 1/ are going to

Re: Copr - look back at 2021

2021-12-31 Thread Benson Muite
On 12/30/21 5:33 PM, Miroslav Suchý wrote: Let me sum up what the Copr team did during 2021: Awesome work. Looking forward to a great 2022! ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: Possibly off topic: Slack will discontinue packaging for Fedora

2021-11-04 Thread Benson Muite
The Mattermost client is open source and will connect to Slack. There are a number of packages in copr: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/fulltext/?fulltext=mattermost ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send

Re: Self-introduction: Evžen Gasta

2021-12-16 Thread Benson Muite
On 12/16/21 12:01 PM, evzen...@seznam.cz wrote: Hello, My name is Evžen Gasta and I live in Czech Republic. Currently I'm studying FIT VUT in Brno. I'm developing New Generation of Fedora MediaWriter as my Bachelor's thesis.  About which am I also writing a blog. Welcome. MediaWriter is a

Re: Self Introduction: Yunmei Li

2022-02-23 Thread Benson Muite
On 2/23/22 6:42 AM, Yunmei LI wrote: Hi, Thanks for your help! I reworked the Milvus package for EPEL8 based on the comments I received, and updated theSpec URL and SRPMURL on Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2055596

Re: Self Introduction: Dr Anirban Mitra

2022-02-07 Thread Benson Muite
Dear Anirban, স্বাগতম (welcome)! Awesome story, an inspiration to others. Regards, Benson On 2/8/22 3:29 AM, Anirban Mitra via devel wrote: Hello I am Dr Anirban Mitra. I an is open-source enthusiast and amateur typographer, I am a physician by profession. I had worked for GNU/ Linux Bengali/

Fedora Food SIG

2023-10-16 Thread Benson Muite
Hi, Recently submitted a review for AnyMeal - A free and open source recipe management software[1]. There is other free and open source software related to food see for example [2]. Would there be interst in a SIG to discuss FOSS software for food? The target members are all people who like food

Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers

2023-11-07 Thread Benson Muite
On 11/7/23 08:21, Cristian Delgado wrote: > Hi, everyone > > I want to take over python-gpiozero,but I'm not a packager at the > moment, i'm really eager to contribute to the community. > > I update the package, to the latest version upstream, here you can find > the spec file Welcome. Have

Unretirement: Impallari-Lobster-Fonts

2023-10-04 Thread Benson Muite
Hi, Would like to unretire Impallari-Lobster-Fonts: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242129 Regards, Benson ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora

Local network enabled applications

2023-10-12 Thread Benson Muite
Am reviewing Qnearbyshare: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241003 It uses a protocol similar to: https://github.com/grishka/NearDrop/blob/master/PROTOCOL.md For sending a file, a temporary server is initiated which is accessible on the local network. To receive files, the service

Re: Adding Passim as a Fedora 40 feature?

2023-08-25 Thread Benson Muite
On 8/25/23 14:42, Richard Hughes wrote: > Hi all, > > I was thinking of adding Passim as a default-installed and > default-enabled dep of fwupd in the Fedora 40 release. Before I create > lots of unnecessary drama, is there any early feedback on what's > described in

Re: Adding Passim as a Fedora 40 feature?

2023-08-25 Thread Benson Muite
On 8/25/23 20:24, Richard Hughes wrote: > On Fri, 25 Aug 2023 at 16:00, Benson Muite wrote: >> Better as optional rather than default-enabled. It would likely be >> helpful for computers in an institutional setting where the LAN is well >> controlled. > > So that's

Re: Self Introduction: Rijul Gulati

2022-05-15 Thread Benson Muite
On 5/15/22 21:05, Rijul Gulati wrote: Hello Fedora, My name is Rijul Gulati. I am a Software Developer from India. I have been using Linux for a couple of years now, and would like to contribute to the fedora project. Awesome. Welcome About me: I work as a web developer - primarily as a

Re: Unretire ufo2ft

2022-05-30 Thread Benson Muite
On 5/30/22 22:28, Otto Urpelainen wrote: Benson Muite kirjoitti 28.5.2022 klo 22.00: Hi, Would like to unretire ufo2ft[1][2].  The package is useful for building font packages from source, which the Fedora font packaging policy encourages. That should be fine, because the it seems

Unretire ufo2ft

2022-05-28 Thread Benson Muite
Hi, Would like to unretire ufo2ft[1][2]. The package is useful for building font packages from source, which the Fedora font packaging policy encourages. Regards, Benson 1 https://github.com/googlefonts/ufo2ft 2 https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-ufo2ft

Re: Fedora SCM requests on the weekend

2022-07-03 Thread Benson Muite
Maybe there are contributors where the working week is Sunday-Thursday? On 7/3/22 10:58, Robert-André Mauchin wrote: Hello, I know a lot of you are working on Fedora during the week days, but for some of us, the weekend is the only time we can spend time on it. The problem is, SCM requests

Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers​

2022-06-16 Thread Benson Muite
Package (co)maintainers Status Change libftdi hobbes1069, orphan, robert 0 weeks ago taken, co-maintainers are welcome, minor change

Re: Take the Fedora Annual Contributor Survey 2022

2022-06-16 Thread Benson Muite
On 6/17/22 00:18, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 12:33:55 +0200,  Aleksandra Fedorova wrote: Hello, everyone, Please participate in the Fedora Annual Contributor Survey 2022! * https://fedoraproject.limequery.com/2022 The survey is anonymous, it has 44 questions targeting

Re: Interest in a ROCm SIG?

2022-06-13 Thread Benson Muite
A heterogeneous computing SIG would be very helpful. In addition to machine learning, there are many uses for this in graphics applications as well as for scientific computing. Benson On 6/13/22 10:01, Armin Wehrfritz wrote: I would be very much interested in a SIG for that! Not sure if it

Re: Self Introduction: mczernek

2022-07-17 Thread Benson Muite
On 7/17/22 11:09, Marek Czernek wrote: Hey folks, I work as a developer for Red Hat training. As part of our work, we write both code and a lot of English text, which means we want to have linters for both :). Hopefully we can add Czech and other languages that areusedin Fedora,

Re: Self Introduction to fedora-devel and package sponsorship

2022-08-29 Thread Benson Muite
On 8/29/22 09:10, Federico Pellegrin wrote: Hello all, It's been a while that I'm following the list and finally wanted to do a small self introduction. I'm Federico, currently living nearby Munich and working at ESO (the European Southern Observatory), somehow split, although many

Testing of software that utilizes GPUs

2022-10-20 Thread Benson Muite
Is there any way to test software that uses GPUs on COPR or Koji? The number of such packages will likely increase in future. In particular for software that uses ROCM, SYCL, Vulkan and OpenCL? ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Self Introduction: Joel Savitz

2022-09-09 Thread Benson Muite
Welcome Joel! On 9/8/22 02:42, Joel Savitz wrote: Hello everyone, I am a software engineer at Red Hat working on the kernel. Over the past three years, I've been leading a program that has evolved into a pipeline to get interested people into kernel development with emphasis on improving

Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers

2022-09-26 Thread Benson Muite
ufo2ft, pt-astra-sans-font and pt-astra-serif-font were created in error, the repositories have incorrect names. It seems empty/replicated repositories cannot be deleted. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

Re: Unretire rubygem-logging

2022-10-04 Thread Benson Muite
On 10/4/22 11:29, Vít Ondruch wrote: Dne 04. 10. 22 v 10:01 Benson Muite napsal(a): On 10/4/22 02:05, Robby Callicotte via devel wrote: On Tuesday, September 27, 2022 2:13:25 AM CDT Vít Ondruch wrote: I have set up copr repos for test-kitchen and kitchen-salt.[1][2]  I am also

Re: Unretire rubygem-logging

2022-10-04 Thread Benson Muite
On 10/4/22 02:05, Robby Callicotte via devel wrote: On Tuesday, September 27, 2022 2:13:25 AM CDT Vít Ondruch wrote: I have set up copr repos for test-kitchen and kitchen-salt.[1][2] I am also in the process of opening up bzs for review. I have a few questions regarding embedded fonts in

Re: Propositions to improve the documentation

2022-10-12 Thread Benson Muite
On 10/12/22 13:03, Sébastien Le Roux wrote: Dear All, I joined the packaging team recently, or should I say I joined the mailing list, since for the rest I am still looking for a sponsor and all that ... anyway I want to share few ideas with you ... In my first messages I highlighted that the

Re: fedpkg new-sources errors - fedorapeople certificate expiry

2022-10-07 Thread Benson Muite
-- Petr Possibly related (?), today I've noticed that opening a .fedorapeople website in a browser I get an error about expired certificate... Also prevents downloading spec and srpm files. Mattia ___ devel mailing list --

ELN build failures

2022-11-01 Thread Benson Muite
If there is a build failure for a package on ELN, does anything need to be added to a package spec file? Currently reviewing a package where there is a missing dependency, but helpful to also know if anything should be done in general. The documentation at [0] is not clear on this. Unclear

Re: Review swap: libblkio (Rust-written library with C API)

2023-01-11 Thread Benson Muite
On 1/11/23 13:41, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 10:39:50AM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2124697 >> >> I'm willing to swap this one with a package of similar complexity. >> >> This package / review bug has been extensively

Re: Review swap

2022-12-29 Thread Benson Muite
On 12/29/22 22:32, TI_Eugene wrote: > Can review something against my new package - QCustomPlot/PyQt > binding: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2156080 > > Qt and/or python packages are preferable, but not exactly. > > ___ Taken

Re: Inactive packagers to be removed after the F37 release

2022-12-02 Thread Benson Muite
On 12/2/22 14:04, Vít Ondruch wrote: Dne 02. 12. 22 v 8:00 Benson Muite napsal(a): - rpms/ruby-ncurses Taken Why? It does not deserve to live, at least in its current (abandoned and deprecated) form. Thanks for the warning. Orphaned it. Vít

Unretire lua-coxpcall

2022-11-18 Thread Benson Muite
Hi Would like to unretire lua-coxpcall: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/lua-coxpcall It is a dependency of https://github.com/lunarmodules/copas which is a dependency of https://github.com/lunarmodules/busted which is needed for testing other lua packages. Regards, Benson

Re: Inactive packagers to be removed after the F37 release

2022-12-01 Thread Benson Muite
- rpms/ruby-ncurses Taken - rpms/ucx Taken ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: %set_build_flags, clang/flang-new and FC/FCFLAGS

2022-10-31 Thread Benson Muite
On 11/1/22 06:35, Orion Poplawski wrote: While poking at building openmpi with clang, I started wondering about flang and some things: * Should %set_build_flags set FC?  I think it should since it sets FCFLAGS. * Is flang-new even worth bothering with?  See the following configure check:

Re: Building two conflicting binaries from the same source

2022-11-04 Thread Benson Muite
Collections can also help manage this: https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/ On 11/4/22 01:21, Bojan Smojver via devel wrote: Thank you! -- Bojan 4 Nov 2022 8:48:25 am Florian Weimer : * Bojan Smojver via devel: Sure, it is easy enough to

Re: %set_build_flags, clang/flang-new and FC/FCFLAGS

2022-11-02 Thread Benson Muite
On 11/2/22 13:03, Florian Weimer wrote: * Demi Marie Obenour: On 11/2/22 02:56, Florian Weimer wrote: * Benson Muite: On 11/1/22 06:35, Orion Poplawski wrote: While poking at building openmpi with clang, I started wondering about flang and some things: * Should %set_build_flags set FC?  I

Re: Review swaps

2023-03-20 Thread Benson Muite
On 3/21/23 08:18, Riya Bisht wrote: > Hello, > > I'm interested in reviewing packages. Can you tell me how do I start ? > I'm beginner trying to understand fedora packaging. > Welcome to Fedora! https://jamezone.org/pleasure/software/Fedora/packager/

Re: Update of catch to Catch2 v3

2023-02-23 Thread Benson Muite
On 2/22/23 14:37, Tom Hughes via devel wrote: > As discussed a few weeks ago the Catch testing framework has > a slightly weird naming scheme, namely: > > * Catch (v1.x, actually a branch in Catch2 repository) > * Catch2 v2.x > * Catch2 v3.x > > Since Catch2 was released we have had catch1 and

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