[Mageia-dev] Looking for a Packager mentor

Sun Sep 16 21:07:04 CEST 2012

Hello,
+
+I am looking for becoming a Mageia packager, hence for a mentor, per
+Mageia rules.
+
+My background: I am a developer, professionally and for leisure. And I
+have been a Mandrake, then Mandriva, and lately Mageia user. Though I
+have been for some time users of other distributions, like Ubuntu,
+Debian, Gentoo and some less known derivatives. Anyway I have never
+packaged a rpm up to today (I have only one experience of an .deb
+package) but have always wanted to do so because I regularly have to
+install manually softwares in my /usr/local (either because I can't
+find them, or because Mageia packages are outdated, or finally because
+the packaging is broken). So I finally decided to give it a go and
+propose my candidature.
+
+Note that I don't intend to be a "full time" packager. As I said, I
+develop. And I have other activities. So I don't have enough time to
+do everything unfortunately. I will prefer to focus on the few
+packages I encounter problems with (or softwares I develop).
+
+I already have a small TODO list (all the ones I needed and had to
+install myself recently):
+
+- Alchemy: http://al.chemy.org/
+An interesting experimental drawing software.
+
+- odns: http://odns.tuxfamily.org/
+An OCaml library I maintain, for querying DNS servers, accompanied by
+a CLI querying tool.
+
+- cinelerra: http://cinelerra.org/
+A video editor
+
+- gstreamermm: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/bindings/cplusplus.html
+C++ binding to gstreamer
+
+- xcftools: http://henning.makholm.net/software
+A CLI tool to manipulate XCF (Gimp) files.
+
+- FAAC: http://www.audiocoding.com/faac.html
+MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 AAC encoder
+
+- subtitle editor: http://home.gna.org/subtitleeditor/
+A tool to edit and create subtitles.
+
+- cld (compact language detector):
+http://code.google.com/p/chromium-compact-language-detector/
+The language detector extracted from the Chromium code and packaged
+into its own self-contained library. I am one of the main committer on
+this library.
+It also has a Python binding (which would make a separate package).
+
+- tinysegmenter: http://lilyx.net/tinysegmenter-in-python/
+A Japanese segmenter in Python. I completely repackaged it with an
+actual setup.py but the author is not responding. So I guess I am
+going to open a separate repository somewhere and will be the
+maintainer on it (I am already the pypi maintainer:
+http://pypi.python.org/pypi/tinysegmenter ).
+
+And I guess that's it for now.
+Hope that's a good start. :-)
+
+Jehan
+