Hello. I'm a 2-years retired engineer with a tediously long resume - in short I've been packaging RPMs for big and small companies for, ooooh, maybe 20 years. Unix since 1983, Linux since SLS days, kernel 0.9x, then RedHat/Fedora. I started with Algol, Cobol and Fortran but jumped into C as soon as I discovered it and loved it. Wrote crypto code for RSA/BSafe, device drivers for Linux, HPUX, Solaris, AIX etc. Jenkins CI/CD. Python mostly nowadays - a hobby.
I thought I knew a lot about RPM packaging but discovered there's a lot of new stuff around and then there are the fedora strict requirements (rightfully strict). So, why am I here? I just recently made the jump to wayland / sway on fedora and found that there were a few packages that I really wanted but were not yet in fedora - so I built them in COPR for myself and others to enjoy - https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/fc4qmt/fedora_package_of_wofi11_is_available/. I suggest that though these packages may be minor and of secondary importance that they will enhance the sway experience on fedora and help the move away from X11 - as in my experience. Some have started the journey into fedora and I had help from a friendly guy who reviewed a library I packaged - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1808276 Now I need to take the next step - if anyone wants to adopt one of those packages, please go ahead (I think imv(1) is already spoken for). Otherwise if I can have a sponsor I will do my best to get them into the mainstream and support them. That's enough from me, please don't hesitate to contact! Cheers Bob Tamborine Mountain Queensland Australia _______________________________________________ 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
