Hi,
On 03/12/2013 02:37 PM, Palle Ravn wrote:
Hi all,
This is a personal introduction, as I'm hoping to join the package team. The
following is a short story of my first encounter with Fedora.
Welcome!
I started using Linux as a part of my studies, almost five years ago, and at
that time the terminal seemed an odd way of controlling things. Naturally that
has changed over time, and I often miss the functionality when using other
systems.
I started using Arch Linux for roughly 4 years, though there are many positive
things about the distribution, we come to that in a while, I just got tired of
things breaking after an update, and the endless compilation time of openAFS
after each kernel update. All I ever needed is a simple desktop with decent
default settings. I don't really need to choose my own desktop manager and
desktop during installation, not to mention the right wireless drivers for my
PC, that's why I started looking for something else. After reading a article
reviewing the top 10 distros at the time, I tried Fedora 16
as the first and only one. Previously I had always used KDE, so it was
something new with both Fedora, running systemd which I had never seen before,
and Gnome. Except for the Alt + Mouse for shutdown, I had nothing to complain
about, so I stuck with Fedora.
There are just that one thing I keep missing, and that is the Arch User
Repository (AUR), as I never found an open source project which I couldn't find
there and install within a short time. I know a repository like that relies on
me as the user, to read and validate that the build is in order, which I'm
guessing doesn't go well with the Fedora philosophy. That is why I want to join
the package team, as I see it, a distribution is more usable the wider the
range of packages in the package system. I currently have two packages up for
review, where I need a sponsor. I'm planning to make more
packages of those requested by the Fedora Design Team and the sqlite browser
<http://sqlitebrowser.sourceforge.net/>, when hopefully I get a sponsor.
It would be helpful if you could provide bugzilla links to the 2
packages you've up for review.
Regards,
Hans
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