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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Looking for a Mageia packaging mentor</H1>
<B>D.Morgan</B>
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<I>Sat Aug 27 20:11:49 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Olav Vitters <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">olav at vitters.nl</A>> wrote:
><i> [ Initially I something similar to this to tombhadAC because he's
</I>><i>  involved with GNOME packaging, but think he's busy as I didn't get a
</I>><i>  response ]
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I'd like to join the Mageia packaging team.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I'm interested to help ensure Cauldron
</I>><i> 1) has the latest GNOME packages available. Meaning: upgrade the micro
</I>><i> versions. I'm involved in GNOME (sysadmin, release team) and I use
</I>><i> Mageia myself, so that is the reason why I want to help Mageia.
</I>><i> 2) possibly add packages from Cooker that are not available in Cauldron
</I>><i> (I'm a *long* time Mandriva/Mandrake user). My main interest is with the
</I>><i> GNOME packages though.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Experience in rpm packaging: Never created a spec file from scratch, but
</I>><i> have often changed existing spec files (minor changes such as version
</I>><i> changes, addition/removing of patches and so on) and sometimes had to
</I>><i> redo a patch (mostly Python; not a C developer). Done that when needed
</I>><i> over the last ~5 years or so across various distributions
</I>><i> (Mandrake/Fedora/RHEL and even a few times .deb on Ubuntu).
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Note: My interest is mainly to stay a novice packager. So to help out on
</I>><i> the easy stuff. People in #mageia-dev mentioned that this is fine.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Someone willing to act as a mentor?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> If yes, could you arrange the permissions I'd need? My SSH public key is
</I>><i> at <A HREF="http://www.gnome.org/~ovitters/id_rsa.pub">http://www.gnome.org/~ovitters/id_rsa.pub</A> and my identity / userid at
</I>><i> Mageia is ovitters.
</I>><i> --
</I>><i> Regards,
</I>><i> Olav
</I>><i>
</I>
i can be your mentor if you want i have a free slot :)
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