Hi everyone,
I've lurked around here for years and occasionally have chimed in but
have never introduced myself. What can I say, I'm left-handed and
generally backwards to most of society. :-) Better late than never,
right?
My first exposure to any computer was a VIC-20 in 1981 and was the
ultimate gizmo for this (then) 13 year old. My first exposure to any
*nix was AIX, heavily, in the early 90s, followed by Slackware,
lightly. I really didn't do much Linux though until acquiring RHL 4.0,
but then I was hooked. I remained an RHL user exclusively and followed
through to Fedora for until around FC3 then dabbled a bit with Ubuntu
but came back to Fedora circa FC7.
Since that time I've been doing rpm packaging internally for my
employer, though following the Fedora Packaging Guidelines to a large
extent as that generally helped ensure success. A few years ago I
decided that my custom rpm build tools were limiting so I took the jump
into standing up our own Koji environment, along with Sigul, along with
more of my own tooling to fully automate the signing, mashing, etc.
All this helps me support my primary job developing our (er, my baby
actually) AOS (Appliance OS) and most of the applications that run atop
to fulfill various roles, which is now running on nearly 500
deployments, mostly embedded. The AOS is founded on what is effectively
a custom Fedora live image that leverages a fork of the fedora-
readonly.service along with a lot of clever leveraging of things that
Fedora already offered. I dug deep, grokked, and tweaked, adding glue
and infrastructure as needed.
My interests are wide, but mostly are focused on system tools (I enjoy
being my own best customer :-) and automation. I'm heavily biased
towards Python, but also necessarily extremely well versed in shell
scripting. I also do lots of Puppet (a love/hate relationship), some
Ruby and more. I don't have any particular package I want to bring to
Fedora at this time so I'll stick with package reviews for the time
being. Maybe someday I'll try to pry loose one of my many personal
and/or work packages. I've already slowly started trickling out my
Puppet modules (at https://github.com/jflorian). When I'm away from a
computer, I'm often busy with home alterations and renovation, wood
working, metal working, or feeding my insatiable appetite for books,
music, nature, and learning.
Finally, I would like to thank (again) Zbigniew for both offering an
welcoming hand at just the right moment and for sponsoring me as a
Fedora Packager.
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