Re: Self Introduction: Brian Sipos
Hello, Brian.
On Thursday, 26 September 2019 at 23:08, Brian Sipos wrote:
Hello all,
I've been working with RHEL and CentOS packages since about 2011, but
mostly in the domain of private Yum repositories. I've done some work
in the past with the SUSE Build Service also. I'm familiar with
Redhat/Fedora packaging guidelines but not with Fedora-specific
development tooling. I've also been involved in the Redhat bugzilla
and submitted several library patches for packaging (but never managed
a package or package branch itself).
That's great! Welcome to Fedora.
Since RHEL/CentOS 8 has been released now, I'm interested in
helping
with the migration of packages into the EPEL-8 repository. My focus is
on some particular scientific computing packages which are available
in EPEL-7 but not yet in EPEL- 8. I've not been able to find any good
information about this type of thing; does anyone have any pointers?
Do you have any specific packages in mind? I maintain a number of
scientific packages but I'd be happy to hand over some of them to
someone who's actually using them.
My first thought would be to start rebuilding "fc28"
packages for
"el8" but I don't want to duplicate effort if there is already
coordinated EPEL-8 targeting for some of these packages. The link at <
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#How_do_I_request_a_EPEL_branch_fo...
> points to the old "PackageDB" process but that appears to be
> superseded by the
"fedpkg" tool. I suppose I need to be an approved package developer
even to do local EPEL-8 -targeted builds.
Best way would be to open a bug against the package you'd like to see
the EPEL8 branch for and offer to maintain the branch or contact the
maintainer(s) directly (via package_name-owner(a)fedoraproject.org alias).
Finally, there's the SciTech SIG, which is barely active but has its own
mailing list and an IRC channel, too:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:SciTech_SIG?rd=SciTech_special_in...
Regards,
Dominik
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