Re: Self Introduction: Attila Kovacs

2024-05-22 Thread Benson Muite
On 22/05/2024 19.13, Attila Kovacs wrote: > Hi! > > I'm an astrophysicist / developer (nowadays more developer than > astrohysicist). I mostly write code in C and Java (for work and for personal > stuff). My main job is maintaining and developing software for the > Smithsonian's Submillimeter

Re: Your Fedora requests for aws-checksums, aws-c-compression, aws-lc and s2n-tls

2024-05-04 Thread Benson Muite
On 04/05/2024 02.21, Dominik Wombacher wrote: > > Hi Benson, > >> >> Happy to co-maintain. Feel free to close my requests if you want to >> proceed soon, would not be able to update them till late next week. >> > > thanks a lot, for both. I submitted new requests today: Ok. cc-ing list as open

Re: Self Introduction: Jan André Reuter

2024-05-03 Thread Benson Muite
On 03/05/2024 12.29, Jan Andre Reuter wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I'd like to self introduce myself to the devel community. > > My name is Jan, I'm 27 years old and working in the Jülich > Supercomputing Centre (JSC) at the Research Center Jülich as a software > developer and researcher. I've

Review Request to unretire MinEdit

2024-03-26 Thread Benson Muite
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2271521 -- ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: SoPlex and SCIP review swaps

2024-02-20 Thread Benson Muite
>>> above](https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jjames/SCIP/), since I >>>> can't build asl in Rawhide without breaking the existing mp package, >>>> so the rest all has to be done at once in a side tag. >>>> >>>> Let me know what I can review for

Re: Regaining Packager Status

2024-01-26 Thread Benson Muite
Hi Anirban, On 26/01/2024 08.13, Anirban Mitra via devel wrote: > I want to retake fbf-mukti-fonts and uniol-fonts of which i am the upstream > developer. I have lost my membership in packager group and I could not log in > the pkg maintenance systtem  > Please see:

Re: Fedora Review Service and setting the AutomationTriaged keyword

2023-12-11 Thread Benson Muite
Many thanks Jakub. It is a helpful tool. Hopefully it will also encourage more community contributions to help improve and update Fedora Review as well. -- ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: Review swaps

2023-11-17 Thread Benson Muite
On 11/17/23 19:16, Jerry James wrote: > Who would like to swap package reviews?  I've got 4 packages that need > to be reviewed: > > ocaml-ptime: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242903 > > ocaml-crunch:

Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers

2023-11-11 Thread Benson Muite
On 11/8/23 07:28, Cristian Delgado wrote: > Hi Benson, > I've made the pull request, thanks for your feedback. > Welcome. Merged it. It is helpful to do a few mock reviews https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/How_to_Get_Sponsored_into_the_Packager_Group/#commenting > Also

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

[EPEL-devel] Re: Upgrade of mlpack in epel-7

2023-10-31 Thread Benson Muite
On 10/30/23 16:37, Troy Dawson wrote: > On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 10:35 AM Benson Muite > mailto:benson_mu...@emailplus.org>> wrote: > > Would like to upgrade mlpack from 3.4.2 to 4.2.1 > Version 3 is no longer maintained, and there do not seem to be > dependen

[EPEL-devel] Upgrade of mlpack in epel-7

2023-10-29 Thread Benson Muite
Would like to upgrade mlpack from 3.4.2 to 4.2.1 Version 3 is no longer maintained, and there do not seem to be dependencies on mlpack, at least in Fedora. This is prompted by CVE-2021-28021, CVE-2021-42715, CVE-2021-42716, and CVE-2022-28041

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

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

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

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: 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: Package deprecation policy

2023-06-30 Thread Benson Muite
On 6/30/23 17:05, Ben Beasley wrote: > On 6/30/23 04:34, Benson Muite wrote: >> There is at present no policy on when and why packages should be >> deprecated.  Have made a proposal to allow deprecation of packages only >> when they fail to build or are a security con

Re: Package deprecation policy

2023-06-30 Thread Benson Muite
On 6/30/23 14:00, Vít Ondruch wrote: > > Dne 30. 06. 23 v 10:34 Benson Muite napsal(a): >> There is at present no policy on when and why packages should be >> deprecated.  Have made a proposal to allow deprecation of packages only >> when they fail to build > >

Package deprecation policy

2023-06-30 Thread Benson Muite
There is at present no policy on when and why packages should be deprecated. Have made a proposal to allow deprecation of packages only when they fail to build or are a security concern. In other cases, orphaning and retirement should be done. Comments and suggestions for improvement are

Unretire python-diskcache

2023-06-27 Thread Benson Muite
Would like to unretire Python-diskcache https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2215710 ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: What is Fedora?

2023-06-23 Thread Benson Muite
> > This doesn't impact Fedora, but will certainly impact the various > RHEL rebuilds whether community based (AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux), > or fully commercial (Oracle OEL). Those distros can still provide > the initial point releases, but will have to do all the work to > figure out backports for

Re: Decommissioning Nuancier

2023-06-19 Thread Benson Muite
On 6/20/23 06:44, Ryan Lerch wrote: > Plans are underway to decommission Nuancier[1]. Nuancier was custom > built for the single task of voting for Fedora supplementary > wallpapers, and has not been used for this task since Fedora 32. > Had offered to update this. Would it be ok for me to write

Re: Self Introduction: Herald Yu Betty Liu

2023-06-02 Thread Benson Muite
On 6/1/23 13:09, Betty Liu wrote: > Hi I also come from China ~ I'm Betty and now I'm learning about how to > become a packager (so I think it's not the time to do a self-introduction in > devel now hhh) > > Nice to have someone come from the same country! If you have the time maybe > you can

Re: employment related packager groups

2023-05-26 Thread Benson Muite
On 5/26/23 20:39, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Greetings everyone. > > Today we have packager groups used in src.fedoraproject.org to allow a > group of people to maintain packages. In the past this has been used for > SIGs/packaging areas. ie, python-packaging-sig or robotics-sig or the > like. >

Re: Intern Introduction & Goals (Open 3D Engine)

2023-05-18 Thread Benson Muite
On 5/18/23 16:30, Nicholas Frizzell wrote: > Hello, > > My name is Nicholas and I'm working this summer as an intern with Red > Hat. My primary objective this summer is to improve support for the > O3DE project (https://www.o3de.org/) in Fedora and eventually have it > packaged and available for

Re: Review request for oclock package (orphaned since F35)

2023-05-14 Thread Benson Muite
Ranjan, On 5/14/23 13:46, Globe Trotter via devel wrote: > Thanks! The package was cleared  on BZ some time ago. Is there some > additional review that is needed? > Sorry, that is correct. Usually state is set to post. It seems to have been unretired: https://pagure.io/releng/issue/11417

Re: Review request for oclock package (orphaned since F35)

2023-05-14 Thread Benson Muite
Hi Ranjan, Thanks for contributing to Fedora and maintaining packages. On 5/14/23 03:27, Globe Trotter via devel wrote: > Thanks, Kevin! No  problem, no rush, I did not quite know what to expect, > hence the questions. Thanks again! > > It seems it is just the review that is needed:

Re: Self Introduction: Herald Yu

2023-04-24 Thread Benson Muite
On 4/24/23 09:42, Herald Yu wrote: > Hello everyone, I am Herald come from Shanghai, China. It's nice to meet you > in Fedora Devel Community. > > I am a Tech Writer who is passionate about open-source technology. I have > contributed to JuiceFS and I am willing to package and maintain this

Re: It’s time to transform the Fedora devel list into something new

2023-04-21 Thread Benson Muite
On 4/21/23 23:38, Ben Cotton wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 4:05 PM Maxwell G wrote: >> >> What evidence shows that the group is ever shrinking? I often see Self >> Introduction posts and new people interacting with project. I suppose >> that whether they continue interacting afterwards is

Re: It’s time to transform the Fedora devel list into something new

2023-04-21 Thread Benson Muite
On 4/21/23 23:04, Maxwell G wrote: > Hi Matthew, > > > On Thu Apr 20, 2023 at 17:20 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote >> As it is, devel list is too much for many people to follow — people >> we’d like to have around. > > I disagree. I find mailing lists much easier to deal with. They're all > in one

Re: It’s time to transform the Fedora devel list into something new

2023-04-21 Thread Benson Muite
On 4/21/23 20:52, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 08:24:14AM +0300, Benson Muite wrote: >> However, it doesn't seem like we can hack on it to better suite >> community needs, for example to have the same functionality as mailing >> lists[2]. It is

Re: It’s time to transform the Fedora devel list into something new

2023-04-20 Thread Benson Muite
On 4/21/23 04:24, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Matthew Miller said: >> I am proposing that over the course of 2023, starting with the Changes >> process, we move Fedora development conversations from this mailing list to >> the Discourse-based Fedora Discussion. > > I feel this is a

Re: subarchitectures and RISC-V, was Re: F39 proposal: RPM 4.19 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2023-04-19 Thread Benson Muite
On 4/15/23 19:56, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 08:38:47AM -0600, Jeff Law wrote: >> >> >> On 4/15/23 00:10, David Abdurachmanov wrote: >> >> >>> >>> We have to support SCBs as-is. We even have 64-core OoO (and even >>> dual-socket 128-core) systems coming that are still RVA20 (what

Re: Change my new package name in src.fedoraporject.org ?

2023-04-13 Thread Benson Muite
On 4/13/23 11:29, Sébastien Le Roux wrote: > > Le 13/04/2023 à 10:26, Benson Muite a écrit : >> On 4/13/23 11:18, Sébastien Le Roux wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> yesterday I created my first package repository: >>> >> Congratulations! > Thank you

Re: Change my new package name in src.fedoraporject.org ?

2023-04-13 Thread Benson Muite
On 4/13/23 11:18, Sébastien Le Roux wrote: > Dear all, > yesterday I created my first package repository: > Congratulations! > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/Atomes > > I used the command (that you all must be familiar with): > > fedpkg request-repo Atomes 2130607 > > After a first try

Re: Self Introduction: Miguel Bernal Marin

2023-04-11 Thread Benson Muite
On 4/11/23 00:10, Joe Doss wrote: > On 4/8/23 7:52 PM, Miguel Bernal Marin wrote: >> Hi Fedora community, >> >> My name is Miguel Bernal Marin and usually my nickname is miguelinux, >> I work at Intel corporation in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico and I >> would like >> to add some new packages from

Re: Auto-assign packager sponsors to tickets?

2023-04-04 Thread Benson Muite
On 4/4/23 10:14, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > On 04/04/2023 02:59, Jakub Kadlcik wrote: >> I get the same impression and I would agree with Otto's proposal to >> get rid of the FE-NEEDSPONSOR entirely. > > Looks good for me too. Opening a new Pagure ticket would be better, IMO. > This is

Re: Auto-assign packager sponsors to tickets?

2023-04-04 Thread Benson Muite
On 4/4/23 08:52, Otto Liljalaakso wrote: > Benson Muite kirjoitti 4.4.2023 klo 7.02: >> May >> also want to automatically track unofficial reviews by prospective >> packagers, perhaps even requiring a certain number of unofficial reviews >> for the sponsorship process

Re: Auto-assign packager sponsors to tickets?

2023-04-03 Thread Benson Muite
Thanks for this initiative Jakub. Automated builds on copr of packages proposed for review has been very helpful. On 4/4/23 03:59, Jakub Kadlcik wrote: > Thank you all for the feedback. > >> The bottom line is that package reviews can be quite time consuming. I >> don't think the issue is with

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/

Unretire IWYU - Include What You Use

2023-03-02 Thread Benson Muite
Would like to unretire Include What You Use https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2175012 ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: Update of catch to Catch2 v3

2023-02-24 Thread Benson Muite
On 2/24/23 10:48, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > On 22/02/2023 12:37, Tom Hughes via devel wrote: >> I have now added catch2 (for Catch2 v2.x) and upgraded the catch >> package to Catch2 v3.x in rawhide and f38. > > All my catch-dependent packages are now failing due to the missing > catch.hpp

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

Licenses for UCX

2023-02-18 Thread Benson Muite
Updated license information to BSD-3-Clause AND MIT AND CC-PDDC AND (BSD-3-Clause OR Apache-2.0) after examining while doing SPDX update. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Errors when updating repo information

2023-02-18 Thread Benson Muite
For builds on COPR and when using Fedora in the cloud, occasionally get an error when trying to read rawhide repository information: $ sudo dnf install wget Fedora - Rawhide - Developmental packages for t 13 MB/s | 21 MB 00:01 Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'rawhide': -

Updated license information for MLpack

2023-02-13 Thread Benson Muite
When updating to SPDX, added Apache-2.0 license for some of the included files in MLpack. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: Packages with breaking APIs

2023-02-01 Thread Benson Muite
to do it again so I don't know what more you want. > > Tom > > On 01/02/2023 10:13, Benson Muite wrote: >> Packages with breaking APIs between major version changes often keep >> maintaining the older version for some time after the new version is >> released.  An

Packages with breaking APIs

2023-02-01 Thread Benson Muite
Packages with breaking APIs between major version changes often keep maintaining the older version for some time after the new version is released. An example is FFTW which has both FFTW (version 3) and FFTW2 (version 2) within Fedora: https://packages.fedoraproject.org/search?query=fftw Is it

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

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:

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: 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

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: %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:

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: 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 --

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: 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: 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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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/

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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