[Mageia-dev] looking for a padawan

Thu Feb 3 20:05:01 CET 2011

Hello,
+
+> so, if someone is looking for a mentor, now is the time to speak...
+
+I'm looking for a mentor :-)
+
+>     - people with packaging experience (this way, we can increase the
+>       packagers pool faster)
+
+I have some packaging experience.  I created my first rpm package about
+ten years ago, and created a few since then.  I guess I can say I'm
+comfortable with the packaging process with the exception of the rules
+specific to each distribution.  In other words, I packaged stuff for my
+own use, without following any guidelines with regard to versioning,
+naming, etc.  The mentoring I need most would be what is appropriate to
+do in a Mageia package, like where to put documentation (for example
+some docs go with a lib package, some others go in the devel package),
+how to use modern macros (I've seen a "dist" macro recently for example
+in a Fedora package), etc.
+
+>     - people not too far from my timezone (i'm in lyon, france, met)
+
+I'm in France too.
+
+I'm mostly interested in packaging new software.  I often find myself
+wanting to test something, say a jackd-enabled application, and can't
+find it in the repository.  Or some miscellaneous devel packages.  But
+I'm willing to take over some unmaintained packages too.
+
+Let me know.
+
+Johnny
+