[Mageia-dev] Looking for a Mageia packaging mentor

Sat Aug 27 20:11:49 CEST 2011

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl> wrote:
+> [ 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
+>
+
+i can be your mentor if you want i have a free slot :)
+