On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:04 AM, andre999 <andre999...@laposte.net> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We have a newly qualified packager, kamil, who is already maintaining over > 160 packages. He is largely responsible for the considerabe decrease in > unmaintained packages in the last few days, although many other packagers > have contributed. > > We have another Mandriva packager who has joined our packaging team, nelg > (Glen Ogilvie), and is bringing himself up to date for Mageia with jquelin. > > Also note that philippem (Philippe Makowski) has just posted a message > inviting potential apprentices to contact him for mentoring. > Any other mentors who feel that they can take on another apprentice are > invited to post to this thread. > > Currently we have 4 apprentice candidates looking for a mentor. > > am2605 (Andrew Myers), has been waiting now about 5 weeks. > He is a longtime Fedora, a web developer, interested in packaging related to > Gnome, Java, Eclipse among others, teaching himself Mageia packaging basics.
when i will have a new slot free i would be interested in this package as he knows java / eclipse. So let see when i will have one ( shouldn't be long ) > > cddesjar (Christopher Desjardins), has been waiting about 3 weeks. > He has basic .deb and .rpm packaging experience, including doing texworks > and jags on Mageia for himself. Would like to maintain these and R-base. > > dglent (Dimitrios Glentadakis), had been waiting about a week. > He has experience packaging in his personal repos (mageia-gr.org and > previously mandrivalinux.gr) with applications he uses, which he would like > to package for Mageia repos. He speaks French and English. > > cyprix (Sam Bailey) > He is a long time Mandriva then Mageia user, who runs hosting servers in his > work, and is interested in packaging programs for hosting and web-app > services. > > Note that those who have been waiting the longest are at the top of the > list. > > You can find more details at: > https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager#Packager_apprentice_candidates > > Mentors, let me know who you take on, and I'll update the tables for you. > > Thanks :-) > > ---- > > Anyone else looking for a mentor, let me know so I can add your name as an > apprentice candidate -- or you can do it yourself. > https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager#Packager_apprentice_candidates > > See also the previous sections, on becoming a Mageia packager : > https://wiki.mageia.org/mw-en/index.php?title=Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager&action=submit#What_is_needed_to_become_a_Mageia_packager > > To find a mentor, it helps to also post to this list (mageia-dev), or hang > out on IRC at freenode #mageia-mentoring. > Don't forget that if you contact a mentor directly, they know that you are > actively interested. > > Regards :-) > > -- > André > (Packager mentoring program coordinator) > >