Dear Sirs,
I have filed a bug at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1202063 with hope that
piece of sw introduced there will be useful for others too. According
to
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers
I feel obliged to introduce myself in this mailing list too as I
understand it might be possible for me to maintain my package under
review for fedora linux too.
In addition to having submitted a package on review I can also try
helping in other packaging or QA functions that fedora linux project
might have, if I can and if my time permits. The initial nudge to
create the piece of sw under review was observation how regular
internet users mis-use capabilities of open-source sw available:
message exchange is very fundamental thing inside internet. Regardless
of availability of flat address space and various security-related
tools people often ask me to communicate through services that
disregard the flat address space (by having for example client-server
infrastructure) and make usage of privacy-related tools
difficult. This attempt for fixing those problems is simplicity ;
there is straightforward user-interface that, when used, will make use
of server-less data-storage, server-less message exchange and normal
library procedures for content encryption.
In the past I have not, at least under my real name, contributed to
popular open-source sw projects, I have been only using and
developing on top of them. Before linux came into existence I was
using minix on atari st. I started to use linux at kernel version 0.98,
switched to commercial unixes between kernels 1.3-2.0 and started to
regularly use again linux when kernel was 2.0. Some projects that I have
made I have tried to share with community but found very little
interest :) I earn my salary as sw developer, since year 1996 or
something, and have previously been paid to contribute to projects
related to industrial process control, mobile phone sw, embedded sw on
small devices, many kind of web-services, other data-transmission
related things and all this in every common platform, including
open-source and commercial unixes. The programming languages I'm most
comfortible with are C, C++, /bin/sh, java, tcl, c#, pl/sql but almost
anything goes to small extent.
The guide to writing introduction made a question why should I be
trusted but I have no answer. Reputation grows with time. I have
included link to SRPM with hope that someone will read through it and
check that it will not attempt dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4k
-equivalent on first run ; it should not. I'm from finland, some
people involved in open-source scene might recognice me but I don't
know. My understanding of of possibilities of internet is that we
might promote equal opportunities by encouraging use of services that
are not tightly in hands of one person or organization only ;
Classified ads clearly falls into this category. Latest source code to
Classified ads is at https://github.com/operatornormal/classified_ads
and as user of Classified ads messaging system I understand that usage
of unpopular messaging system contributes only to monologue so I invite
everybody to immediately join the DHT of the system, my address inside
Classified ads is 6AC2D159AB3A0B0F241DD6D12E4A1673588DD0E8.
--
Antti Järvinen, Oulu, Finland
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