[Mageia-dev] Looking for a Mageia packaging mentor

Sat Aug 27 19:07:18 CEST 2011

[ Initially I something similar to this to tombhadAC because he's
+  involved with GNOME packaging, but think he's busy as I didn't get a
+  response ]
+
+I'd like to join the Mageia packaging team.
+
+I'm interested to help ensure Cauldron
+1) has the latest GNOME packages available. Meaning: upgrade the micro
+versions. I'm involved in GNOME (sysadmin, release team) and I use
+Mageia myself, so that is the reason why I want to help Mageia.
+2) possibly add packages from Cooker that are not available in Cauldron
+(I'm a *long* time Mandriva/Mandrake user). My main interest is with the
+GNOME packages though.
+
+Experience in rpm packaging: Never created a spec file from scratch, but
+have often changed existing spec files (minor changes such as version
+changes, addition/removing of patches and so on) and sometimes had to
+redo a patch (mostly Python; not a C developer). Done that when needed
+over the last ~5 years or so across various distributions
+(Mandrake/Fedora/RHEL and even a few times .deb on Ubuntu).
+
+Note: My interest is mainly to stay a novice packager. So to help out on
+the easy stuff. People in #mageia-dev mentioned that this is fine.
+
+Someone willing to act as a mentor?
+
+If yes, could you arrange the permissions I'd need? My SSH public key is
+at http://www.gnome.org/~ovitters/id_rsa.pub and my identity / userid at
+Mageia is ovitters.
+-- 
+Regards,
+Olav
+