Re: Self-introduction

2020-06-02 Thread Benson Muite
On 6/3/20 3:31 AM, Егор Артёмов wrote: Hello there! I am a C enthusiast from Russia. I'm using Fedora already for 12 years and now feel that I can contribute. I am living in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, and working as C++ and Go developer in enterprise and gamedev. I love Fedora and want to submit

Re: Self Introduction: Nikolay Nikolov

2020-07-04 Thread Benson Muite
On 7/5/20 4:47 AM, nick...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, My name is Nikolay Nikolov. I'm a software developer and free/open source enthusiast. I've been using Linux since Red Hat Linux 5.0. After Red Hat Linux 9, I upgraded to Fedora Core 1 and I've used every Fedora version since then. :) I'm a core

Re: Self Introduction: Nurmukhamed Artykaly

2020-07-21 Thread Benson Muite
On 7/22/20 9:31 AM, Nurmukhamed Artykaly wrote: I am an IT engineer, sysadmin, programmer, DevOps, SRE. I study new technologies. My Blog is dedicated to IT technologies and (or) events related to IT in Kazakhstan, the CIS and the world. Hi Nurmukhamed, Welcome to Fedora. We look forward to

Self introduction: Benson Muite

2016-08-13 Thread Benson Muite
Hi, Am interested in making it easier to use integrated GPUs within Fedora, particularly using OpenCL. Initial package working on can be found at: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/fed500/clrng-intel/ Thanks, Benson -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedor

OpenCL libraries based on cl math

2016-08-13 Thread Benson Muite
aboard! On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Benson Muite wrote: Hi, Am interested in making it easier to use integrated GPUs within Fedora, particularly using OpenCL. Initial package working on can be found at: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/fed500/clrng-intel/ Unfortunately spec file

Re: OpenCL libraries based on cl math

2016-08-13 Thread Benson Muite
wrote: Actually you don't need to build for each platform some library. Platform should be chosen at runtime. On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 5:31 PM, Benson Muite wrote: Thanks for the welcome, still learning how to write spec files. Working initially on clrng using beignet on x86_64, then want t

Re: OpenCL libraries based on cl math

2016-08-13 Thread Benson Muite
. Where can I find and download beignet spec files so can test it out on more architectures in koji? On 08/13/2016 07:32 PM, Igor Gnatenko wrote: On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 6:29 PM, Benson Muite wrote: Beignet is Intel specific. HSA is upcoming and looks like might be able to include it for other

Re: Self Introduction: Guido Aulisi

2016-09-07 Thread Benson Muite
Welcome! Look forward to using your contributions and listening to your compositions. On 09/06/2016 11:54 PM, Guido Aulisi wrote: Hi all, I'm GNU/Linux system administrator and a musician too. During my working hours I maintain Linux servers, mostly RedHat distributions, but during my free tim

Re: Video performance degradation in F24

2016-09-07 Thread Benson Muite
Blog post here may be relevant: https://streamcomputing.eu/blog/2016-09-06/transition-period-for-fglrx-to-amdgpurocm-no-kernel-4-4-or-xorg-1-18-support/ Not sure exact hardware you are using, so may not be directly relevant. If it is, there is a recent Fedora magazine article on applying kernel

Re: TBB license change and package rebuilds - openmp issues

2016-09-09 Thread Benson Muite
On 09/09/2016 07:37 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: On Friday, 09 September 2016 at 18:22, Orion Poplawski wrote: On 09/09/2016 08:24 AM, Jerry James wrote: There is no soname bump in this release, but one section of the API changed in a backwards-incompatible way. If they broke ABI

Re: [Fwd: build perl problem on mythtv]

2016-09-11 Thread Benson Muite
On 09/11/2016 08:11 AM, Sérgio Basto wrote: On Sáb, 2016-09-10 at 18:14 +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote: On Sáb, 2016-09-10 at 18:05 +0200, Igor Gnatenko wrote: On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote: this is a 3rd part repo but you may have better acknowledgment of what happen --

Re: Self Introduction

2016-09-21 Thread Benson Muite
Hello /Bom Dia! Welcome/Bem-vindo! On 09/18/2016 08:28 PM, Sylvia wrote: Hello world, My name is Sylvia, I write articles in the Fedora Magazine and translate for Spanish and Portuguese teams. Also I design sometimes, but just for fun, I'm not in the team. Now I'm starting over with Pytho

Re: F25 builds a library with AVX, causes SIGILL on AMD

2017-05-22 Thread Benson Muite
Hi, Will this mean that repository builds will typically have poor performance to support portability? Benson On 05/23/2017 08:15 AM, Pete Zaitcev wrote: On Mon, 22 May 2017 23:00:14 -0600 Pete Zaitcev wrote: As much as I can tell, there's nothing custom in CFLAGS in Makefile.am, everyth

Re: Sponsorship request

2017-01-22 Thread Benson Muite
Hi, For testing build on more architectures, consider using koji: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_the_Koji_build_system Benson On 01/22/2017 08:08 PM, Mark Harfouche wrote: Hello, My name is Mark Harfouche and I would like to help package chrome gnome shell integration for Fedora. I

Re: kinit: Password incorrect while getting initial credentials

2020-03-30 Thread Benson Muite
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020, at 8:57 PM, Paul Dufresne via devel wrote: > I am trying to follow instructions at: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers > > But when I do: > [paul@localhost ~]$ kinit pa...@fedoraproject.org > I get: > Password for pa...@fedoraproject.or

Re: Self Introduction: Dev Singh

2020-04-12 Thread Benson Muite
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020, at 7:12 PM, Dev Singh wrote: > Hello everyone, > My name is Dev Singh and I am a student developer in the Chicagoland area in > the US. I have worked in various open-source applications and in FRC > robotics. I am hoping to be the package manager for the `thinkpad-tools`

Re: The Chromium Dilemma

2020-04-13 Thread Benson Muite
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020, at 5:21 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > Honestly, degraded performance is an expected result of doing component > build, so I would say that's just not a bug at all, it's just how > Chromium works. Our hand is forced here by upstream's strange and > unusual packaging decis

Re: f32-backgrounds look like crap

2020-04-17 Thread Benson Muite
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020, at 4:02 PM, Leigh Scott wrote: > > Hi Leigh, > > > > > > Do you think you could please use nicer language? There's no need to > > use words like that to describe other people's work in the community. > > That was the nicest term I could use to describe it! > > > > > I pe

Re: f32-backgrounds

2020-04-19 Thread Benson Muite
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020, at 5:56 AM, Paul Dufresne via devel wrote: > Le 20-04-17 à 09 h 09, Benson Muite a écrit : > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020, at 4:02 PM, Leigh Scott wrote: > > Elections for alternative wallpapers are currently open: > > https://apps.fedoraproject.org/nuancier/

Re: Should we discontinue the Python Classroom Lab?

2019-12-05 Thread Benson Muite
On 12/5/19 1:44 PM, Miro Hrončok wrote: Hello, I'd like to know whether it makes sense to continue maintaining and producing the Fedora Python Classroom Lab. Do any schools use this?  Possibly an edition for use in a school/university computer lab or internet cafe may be more useful, with le

Re: Self Introduction: William Brawner

2019-12-30 Thread Benson Muite
On 12/31/19 3:32 AM, William Brawner wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi everyone! I've been using Linux in one way or another since 2015, around the same time I got into software development. I'm self-taught, though I'd like to go to school eventually. I started out do

Re: Beginner SPECfile Guide

2019-07-19 Thread Benson Muite
Possibly helpful: https://rpm-packaging-guide.github.io/ https://openbuildservice.org/help/ Result of a search: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=spec+file+tutorial On 7/19/19 12:53 PM, Lukas Javorsky wrote: Hello, I was wondering if there is some kind of video guide from some con

Re: portable performance engineering

2019-07-23 Thread Benson Muite
Tradeoffs to satisfy a wide variety of users - a base system with most common software easy to try which can then be re-installed for performance. Flatpacks should help with easy but not performance optimal installation of many packages. Spack (https://spack.io/) may be a packaging approach tha

OpenCL on Intel processors

2019-08-07 Thread Benson Muite
Hi, Beignet has been deprecated, might it be possible to put Intel(R) Graphics Compute Runtime for OpenCL(TM) in the Fedora repositories? There is a COPR repository at: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jdanecki/intel-opencl/ Is there a means by which generation of CPU and GPU being us

Re: OpenCL on Intel processors

2019-08-11 Thread Benson Muite
On 8/11/19 3:19 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: On Thursday, 08 August 2019 at 08:19, Benson Muite wrote: Hi, Beignet has been deprecated, might it be possible to put Intel(R) Graphics Compute Runtime for OpenCL(TM) in the Fedora repositories? There is a COPR repository

Re: OpenCL on Intel processors

2019-08-12 Thread Benson Muite
Ok. Arm and AMD also support OpenCL https://developer.arm.com/solutions/graphics/apis/opencl https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm-OpenCL-Runtime https://rocm.github.io/install.html AMD part for OpenCL only seems to be MIT licensed. On 8/12/19 9:24 AM, Igor Gnatenko wrote: I've dropped be

Re: Donate 1 minute of your time to test upgrades from F30 to F31

2019-09-11 Thread Benson Muite
A few errors reported when testing on KDE (one ticket for problem 4 at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1751242): Error:  Problem 1: package plasma-discover-snap-5.15.5-1.fc30.x86_64 requires plasma-discover = 5.15.5-1.fc30, but none of the providers can be installed   - plasma-disco

Re: Donate 1 minute of your time to test upgrades from F30 to F31

2019-09-12 Thread Benson Muite
On 9/12/19 9:52 AM, Miroslav Suchý wrote: Dne 11. 09. 19 v 17:14 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek napsal(a): sudo dnf module disable libgit2 standard-test-roles sudo dnf remove rust-libgit2-sys-devel sudo dnf upgrade libgit2 sudo dnf module reset libgit2 is option as well. Thanks this worked.

Re: peek package

2020-01-01 Thread Benson Muite
On 1/2/20 9:18 AM, Artem Tim wrote: What is alternative to Peek? OBS Studio is totally different beast. OBS more advanced, using Qt framework, available only in RPM Fusion repo. Users asked many time about this Peek and why it is not available in repo and they really like it because of their

Re: peek package

2020-01-02 Thread Benson Muite
On 1/2/20 11:37 AM, Tom Hughes wrote: On 02/01/2020 06:53, Benson Muite wrote: There are a number of screen recording alternatives that are simpler than OBS Studio, including vokoscreen, Kazam, Simplescreenrecorder etc, The main problem is that most depend on FFMPEG. FFMPEG has a license

Re: peek package

2020-01-02 Thread Benson Muite
On 1/2/20 12:05 PM, Benson Muite wrote: On 1/2/20 11:37 AM, Tom Hughes wrote: On 02/01/2020 06:53, Benson Muite wrote: There are a number of screen recording alternatives that are simpler than OBS Studio, including vokoscreen, Kazam, Simplescreenrecorder etc, The main problem is that most

Re: peek package

2020-01-07 Thread Benson Muite
Awesome! On 1/8/20 10:09 AM, Artem Tim wrote: vokoscreenNG packaged now. Nice to have such app available in official repos. F31: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-a489a2436a F30: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-aa27dbce21 ___

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-13 Thread Benson Muite
On 1/12/20 9:38 AM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: The challenge about upstream is when they lack activity for years and contributions are very difficult when users lack knowledge of coding without proper guidance. For example, attempting to improve say CellWriter (sorely missing due to the lack of

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-13 Thread Benson Muite
On 1/14/20 9:00 AM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: On 2020-01-13 12:56 a.m., Benson Muite wrote: On 1/12/20 9:38 AM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: The challenge about upstream is when they lack activity for years and contributions are very difficult when users lack knowledge of coding without proper

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-14 Thread Benson Muite
On 1/14/20 10:34 AM, Benson Muite wrote: On 1/14/20 9:00 AM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: On 2020-01-13 12:56 a.m., Benson Muite wrote: On 1/12/20 9:38 AM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: The challenge about upstream is when they lack activity for years and contributions are very difficult when

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-15 Thread Benson Muite
On 1/15/20 8:33 PM, Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote: On 1/7/20 11:14 AM, Iñaki Ucar wrote: I'm far from having a satisfactory response to that, but I see two fronts here. First, marketing. How does Ubuntu managed to be so popular among less-experienced Linux users? I'm not sure, but I suspect

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-25 Thread Benson Muite
On 1/26/20 8:25 AM, Bill Chatfield via devel wrote: I think that by applying basic engineering techniques like user testing we can weed out ideologies that don't provide any value to users. Do the testing and let the results decide.The principles of ISO 9000 can be applied to improve products

Re: Self Introduction: Chihurumnaya Ibiam

2020-02-19 Thread Benson Muite
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020, at 2:20 AM, Chihurumnaya Ibiam wrote: > Good day, > > I've been working mostly with python at Sugar Labs for some time now, I'm yet > to file a review request but I'm currently helping co-maintain the sugar* > packages; > I'm from Nigeria. > > I'm glad to be part of th

Re: Subject: Self Introduction: Francis Gesora

2020-02-25 Thread Benson Muite
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020, at 11:17 AM, Francis Gesora wrote: > Hi All, > > I am Francis, based in Nairobi, Kenya. > > I am joining as a package maintainer to assist Ankur manage xmedcon and deps > as i get up to speed with package maintenance. Hello/Hujambo Gesora, Awesome to have you here. Re

Re: Need help with my packages

2020-03-17 Thread Benson Muite
On Mon, Mar 2, 2020, at 12:30 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > I have too many packages that I am the maintainer for and need help. If > you would like to help out by either becoming a co-maintainer or > becoming the primary maintainer, please let me know. The full list > follows. Many of these I

Re: Self Introduction: Mark Olesen

2020-03-23 Thread Benson Muite
On Mon, Mar 23, 2020, at 9:47 PM, Mark Olesen wrote: > I'm involved in the development of OpenFOAM (www.openfoam.com), which is > a GPL open source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software package. > > To improve the overall coverage, I've been generating Fedora/RedHat > packages using copr

Re: Introduction for gaming packaging/maintaining

2019-04-08 Thread Benson Muite
Hi Andi, Welcome to Fedora. Some general information is at: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/ The get involved page still needs an update: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/join/ but packaging guidelines are here: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/

Re: Self Introduction: Gordon Messmer

2019-05-27 Thread Benson Muite
Hi Gordon, Welcome to Fedora! On 5/28/19 8:58 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: Hello, My name is Gordon Messmer.  I've been a long-time user of Red Hat systems, starting with Red Hat Linux 4.2 in 1997.  I've been packaging software in rpm format for use in business environments for very nearly as

Re: Self Introduction: Carmen

2018-11-04 Thread Benson Muite
Bonvenon! On 10/30/2018 02:03 PM, Carmen Bianca Bakker wrote: Hi all, The contribution guide thingamajig told me to post a short message here. So as follows: I am Carmen from Friesland, The Netherlands. I am currently working on GNOME to make the GNOME desktop available in Esperanto. At the

Re: Review swaps

2023-03-20 Thread Benson Muite
On 3/21/23 08:18, Riya Bisht wrote: > Hello, > > I'm interested in reviewing packages. Can you tell me how do I start ? > I'm beginner trying to understand fedora packaging. > Welcome to Fedora! https://jamezone.org/pleasure/software/Fedora/packager/ https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-m

Re: Auto-assign packager sponsors to tickets?

2023-04-03 Thread Benson Muite
Thanks for this initiative Jakub. Automated builds on copr of packages proposed for review has been very helpful. On 4/4/23 03:59, Jakub Kadlcik wrote: > Thank you all for the feedback. > >> The bottom line is that package reviews can be quite time consuming. I >> don't think the issue is with sp

Re: Auto-assign packager sponsors to tickets?

2023-04-04 Thread Benson Muite
On 4/4/23 08:52, Otto Liljalaakso wrote: > Benson Muite kirjoitti 4.4.2023 klo 7.02: >> May >> also want to automatically track unofficial reviews by prospective >> packagers, perhaps even requiring a certain number of unofficial reviews >> for the sponsorship process

Re: Auto-assign packager sponsors to tickets?

2023-04-04 Thread Benson Muite
On 4/4/23 10:14, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > On 04/04/2023 02:59, Jakub Kadlcik wrote: >> I get the same impression and I would agree with Otto's proposal to >> get rid of the FE-NEEDSPONSOR entirely. > > Looks good for me too. Opening a new Pagure ticket would be better, IMO. > This is hel

Re: Self Introduction: Miguel Bernal Marin

2023-04-10 Thread Benson Muite
On 4/11/23 00:10, Joe Doss wrote: > On 4/8/23 7:52 PM, Miguel Bernal Marin wrote: >> Hi Fedora community, >> >> My name is Miguel Bernal Marin and usually my nickname is miguelinux, >> I work at Intel corporation in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico and I >> would like >> to add some new packages from I

Re: Change my new package name in src.fedoraporject.org ?

2023-04-13 Thread Benson Muite
On 4/13/23 11:18, Sébastien Le Roux wrote: > Dear all, > yesterday I created my first package repository: > Congratulations! > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/Atomes > > I used the command (that you all must be familiar with): > > fedpkg request-repo Atomes 2130607 > > After a first try usin

Re: Change my new package name in src.fedoraporject.org ?

2023-04-13 Thread Benson Muite
On 4/13/23 11:29, Sébastien Le Roux wrote: > > Le 13/04/2023 à 10:26, Benson Muite a écrit : >> On 4/13/23 11:18, Sébastien Le Roux wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> yesterday I created my first package repository: >>> >> Congratulations! > Thank you so m

Re: subarchitectures and RISC-V, was Re: F39 proposal: RPM 4.19 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2023-04-18 Thread Benson Muite
On 4/15/23 19:56, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 08:38:47AM -0600, Jeff Law wrote: >> >> >> On 4/15/23 00:10, David Abdurachmanov wrote: >> >> >>> >>> We have to support SCBs as-is. We even have 64-core OoO (and even >>> dual-socket 128-core) systems coming that are still RVA20 (what

Re: It’s time to transform the Fedora devel list into something new

2023-04-20 Thread Benson Muite
On 4/21/23 04:24, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Matthew Miller said: >> I am proposing that over the course of 2023, starting with the Changes >> process, we move Fedora development conversations from this mailing list to >> the Discourse-based Fedora Discussion. > > I feel this is a cas

Re: It’s time to transform the Fedora devel list into something new

2023-04-21 Thread Benson Muite
On 4/21/23 20:52, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 08:24:14AM +0300, Benson Muite wrote: >> However, it doesn't seem like we can hack on it to better suite >> community needs, for example to have the same functionality as mailing >> lists[2]. It is n

Re: It’s time to transform the Fedora devel list into something new

2023-04-21 Thread Benson Muite
On 4/21/23 23:04, Maxwell G wrote: > Hi Matthew, > > > On Thu Apr 20, 2023 at 17:20 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote >> As it is, devel list is too much for many people to follow — people >> we’d like to have around. > > I disagree. I find mailing lists much easier to deal with. They're all > in one

Re: It’s time to transform the Fedora devel list into something new

2023-04-21 Thread Benson Muite
On 4/21/23 23:38, Ben Cotton wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 4:05 PM Maxwell G wrote: >> >> What evidence shows that the group is ever shrinking? I often see Self >> Introduction posts and new people interacting with project. I suppose >> that whether they continue interacting afterwards is anot

Re: Self Introduction: Herald Yu

2023-04-24 Thread Benson Muite
On 4/24/23 09:42, Herald Yu wrote: > Hello everyone, I am Herald come from Shanghai, China. It's nice to meet you > in Fedora Devel Community. > > I am a Tech Writer who is passionate about open-source technology. I have > contributed to JuiceFS and I am willing to package and maintain this soft

Re: Review request for oclock package (orphaned since F35)

2023-05-14 Thread Benson Muite
Hi Ranjan, Thanks for contributing to Fedora and maintaining packages. On 5/14/23 03:27, Globe Trotter via devel wrote: > Thanks, Kevin! No  problem, no rush, I did not quite know what to expect, > hence the questions. Thanks again! > > It seems it is just the review that is needed: https://do

Re: Review request for oclock package (orphaned since F35)

2023-05-14 Thread Benson Muite
Ranjan, On 5/14/23 13:46, Globe Trotter via devel wrote: > Thanks! The package was cleared  on BZ some time ago. Is there some > additional review that is needed? > Sorry, that is correct. Usually state is set to post. It seems to have been unretired: https://pagure.io/releng/issue/11417 Though

Re: Intern Introduction & Goals (Open 3D Engine)

2023-05-18 Thread Benson Muite
On 5/18/23 16:30, Nicholas Frizzell wrote: > Hello, > > My name is Nicholas and I'm working this summer as an intern with Red > Hat. My primary objective this summer is to improve support for the > O3DE project (https://www.o3de.org/) in Fedora and eventually have it > packaged and available for i

Re: employment related packager groups

2023-05-26 Thread Benson Muite
On 5/26/23 20:39, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Greetings everyone. > > Today we have packager groups used in src.fedoraproject.org to allow a > group of people to maintain packages. In the past this has been used for > SIGs/packaging areas. ie, python-packaging-sig or robotics-sig or the > like. > Thank

Re: Self Introduction: Herald Yu Betty Liu

2023-06-02 Thread Benson Muite
On 6/1/23 13:09, Betty Liu wrote: > Hi I also come from China ~ I'm Betty and now I'm learning about how to > become a packager (so I think it's not the time to do a self-introduction in > devel now hhh) > > Nice to have someone come from the same country! If you have the time maybe > you can t

Re: Decommissioning Nuancier

2023-06-19 Thread Benson Muite
On 6/20/23 06:44, Ryan Lerch wrote: > Plans are underway to decommission Nuancier[1]. Nuancier was custom > built for the single task of voting for Fedora supplementary > wallpapers, and has not been used for this task since Fedora 32. > Had offered to update this. Would it be ok for me to write s

Re: What is Fedora?

2023-06-23 Thread Benson Muite
> > This doesn't impact Fedora, but will certainly impact the various > RHEL rebuilds whether community based (AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux), > or fully commercial (Oracle OEL). Those distros can still provide > the initial point releases, but will have to do all the work to > figure out backports for

Unretire python-diskcache

2023-06-27 Thread Benson Muite
Would like to unretire Python-diskcache https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2215710 ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.f

Package deprecation policy

2023-06-30 Thread Benson Muite
There is at present no policy on when and why packages should be deprecated. Have made a proposal to allow deprecation of packages only when they fail to build or are a security concern. In other cases, orphaning and retirement should be done. Comments and suggestions for improvement are welcome.

Re: Package deprecation policy

2023-06-30 Thread Benson Muite
On 6/30/23 14:00, Vít Ondruch wrote: > > Dne 30. 06. 23 v 10:34 Benson Muite napsal(a): >> There is at present no policy on when and why packages should be >> deprecated.  Have made a proposal to allow deprecation of packages only >> when they fail to build > >

Re: Package deprecation policy

2023-06-30 Thread Benson Muite
On 6/30/23 17:05, Ben Beasley wrote: > On 6/30/23 04:34, Benson Muite wrote: >> There is at present no policy on when and why packages should be >> deprecated.  Have made a proposal to allow deprecation of packages only >> when they fail to build or are a security con

Re: Inactive packagers to be removed after the F37 release

2022-12-02 Thread Benson Muite
On 12/2/22 14:04, Vít Ondruch wrote: Dne 02. 12. 22 v 8:00 Benson Muite napsal(a): - rpms/ruby-ncurses Taken Why? It does not deserve to live, at least in its current (abandoned and deprecated) form. Thanks for the warning. Orphaned it. Vít

Re: Review swap

2022-12-29 Thread Benson Muite
On 12/29/22 22:32, TI_Eugene wrote: > Can review something against my new package - QCustomPlot/PyQt > binding: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2156080 > > Qt and/or python packages are preferable, but not exactly. > > ___ Taken __

Re: Review swap: libblkio (Rust-written library with C API)

2023-01-11 Thread Benson Muite
On 1/11/23 13:41, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 10:39:50AM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2124697 >> >> I'm willing to swap this one with a package of similar complexity. >> >> This package / review bug has been extensively r

Packages with breaking APIs

2023-02-01 Thread Benson Muite
Packages with breaking APIs between major version changes often keep maintaining the older version for some time after the new version is released. An example is FFTW which has both FFTW (version 3) and FFTW2 (version 2) within Fedora: https://packages.fedoraproject.org/search?query=fftw Is it re

Re: Packages with breaking APIs

2023-02-01 Thread Benson Muite
an to do it again so I don't know what more you want. > > Tom > > On 01/02/2023 10:13, Benson Muite wrote: >> Packages with breaking APIs between major version changes often keep >> maintaining the older version for some time after the new version is >> rel

Updated license information for MLpack

2023-02-13 Thread Benson Muite
When updating to SPDX, added Apache-2.0 license for some of the included files in MLpack. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fed

Errors when updating repo information

2023-02-18 Thread Benson Muite
For builds on COPR and when using Fedora in the cloud, occasionally get an error when trying to read rawhide repository information: $ sudo dnf install wget Fedora - Rawhide - Developmental packages for t 13 MB/s | 21 MB 00:01 Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'rawhide': - Curl

Licenses for UCX

2023-02-18 Thread Benson Muite
Updated license information to BSD-3-Clause AND MIT AND CC-PDDC AND (BSD-3-Clause OR Apache-2.0) after examining while doing SPDX update. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproj

Re: Update of catch to Catch2 v3

2023-02-23 Thread Benson Muite
On 2/22/23 14:37, Tom Hughes via devel wrote: > As discussed a few weeks ago the Catch testing framework has > a slightly weird naming scheme, namely: > > * Catch (v1.x, actually a branch in Catch2 repository) > * Catch2 v2.x > * Catch2 v3.x > > Since Catch2 was released we have had catch1 and ca

Re: Update of catch to Catch2 v3

2023-02-24 Thread Benson Muite
On 2/24/23 10:48, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > On 22/02/2023 12:37, Tom Hughes via devel wrote: >> I have now added catch2 (for Catch2 v2.x) and upgraded the catch >> package to Catch2 v3.x in rawhide and f38. > > All my catch-dependent packages are now failing due to the missing > catch.hpp

Unretire IWYU - Include What You Use

2023-03-02 Thread Benson Muite
Would like to unretire Include What You Use https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2175012 ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://do

Re: Flock to Fedora 2024 Schedule & Registration now live!

2024-07-08 Thread Benson Muite
On 08/07/2024 20.12, Aoife Moloney wrote: > Hi folks, > > > On behalf of the Flock to Fedora organiser team, we would like to share > that the Flock to Fedora 2024 schedule is now live [1] and so is our > registration [2]. Is the registration link only for in person attendance? As the talks wi

Re: Self Introduction: Michael Berry

2024-08-20 Thread Benson Muite
On 20/08/2024 02.56, Michael Berry wrote: > Hi! I don't have much of a resume but I am a long time > user/enthusiast/activist of FOSS, and I recently filed a review request > on an open source project I have been working on, a user friendly, > robust btrfs backup program developed with Python. Here

Re: Adding Passim as a Fedora 40 feature?

2023-08-25 Thread Benson Muite
On 8/25/23 14:42, Richard Hughes wrote: > Hi all, > > I was thinking of adding Passim as a default-installed and > default-enabled dep of fwupd in the Fedora 40 release. Before I create > lots of unnecessary drama, is there any early feedback on what's > described in https://github.com/hughsie/pas

Re: Adding Passim as a Fedora 40 feature?

2023-08-25 Thread Benson Muite
On 8/25/23 20:24, Richard Hughes wrote: > On Fri, 25 Aug 2023 at 16:00, Benson Muite wrote: >> Better as optional rather than default-enabled. It would likely be >> helpful for computers in an institutional setting where the LAN is well >> controlled. > > So that&#

Unretirement: Impallari-Lobster-Fonts

2023-10-04 Thread Benson Muite
Hi, Would like to unretire Impallari-Lobster-Fonts: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242129 Regards, Benson ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Co

Local network enabled applications

2023-10-12 Thread Benson Muite
Am reviewing Qnearbyshare: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241003 It uses a protocol similar to: https://github.com/grishka/NearDrop/blob/master/PROTOCOL.md For sending a file, a temporary server is initiated which is accessible on the local network. To receive files, the service temp

Fedora Food SIG

2023-10-16 Thread Benson Muite
Hi, Recently submitted a review for AnyMeal - A free and open source recipe management software[1]. There is other free and open source software related to food see for example [2]. Would there be interst in a SIG to discuss FOSS software for food? The target members are all people who like food o

Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers

2023-11-07 Thread Benson Muite
On 11/7/23 08:21, Cristian Delgado wrote: > Hi, everyone > > I want to take over python-gpiozero,but I'm not a packager at the > moment, i'm really eager to contribute to the community. > > I update the package, to the latest version upstream, here you can find > the spec file Welcome. Have taken

Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers

2023-11-11 Thread Benson Muite
On 11/8/23 07:28, Cristian Delgado wrote: > Hi Benson, > I've made the pull request, thanks for your feedback. > Welcome. Merged it. It is helpful to do a few mock reviews https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/How_to_Get_Sponsored_into_the_Packager_Group/#commenting > Also i've

Re: Review swaps

2023-11-17 Thread Benson Muite
On 11/17/23 19:16, Jerry James wrote: > Who would like to swap package reviews?  I've got 4 packages that need > to be reviewed: > > ocaml-ptime: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242903 > > ocaml-crunch: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/

Re: Fedora Review Service and setting the AutomationTriaged keyword

2023-12-11 Thread Benson Muite
Many thanks Jakub. It is a helpful tool. Hopefully it will also encourage more community contributions to help improve and update Fedora Review as well. -- ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le.

Re: Regaining Packager Status

2024-01-26 Thread Benson Muite
Hi Anirban, On 26/01/2024 08.13, Anirban Mitra via devel wrote: > I want to retake fbf-mukti-fonts and uniol-fonts of which i am the upstream > developer. I have lost my membership in packager group and I could not log in > the pkg maintenance systtem  > Please see: https://docs.fedoraproject.

Re: SoPlex and SCIP review swaps

2024-02-20 Thread Benson Muite
>>> above](https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jjames/SCIP/), since I >>>> can't build asl in Rawhide without breaking the existing mp package, >>>> so the rest all has to be done at once in a side tag. >>>> >>>> Let me know what I can revie

Re: Self Introduction to fedora-devel and package sponsorship

2022-08-29 Thread Benson Muite
On 8/29/22 09:10, Federico Pellegrin wrote: Hello all, It's been a while that I'm following the list and finally wanted to do a small self introduction. I'm Federico, currently living nearby Munich and working at ESO (the European Southern Observatory), somehow split, although many topics

Re: Self Introduction: Joel Savitz

2022-09-09 Thread Benson Muite
Welcome Joel! On 9/8/22 02:42, Joel Savitz wrote: Hello everyone, I am a software engineer at Red Hat working on the kernel. Over the past three years, I've been leading a program that has evolved into a pipeline to get interested people into kernel development with emphasis on improving Fedo

Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers

2022-09-26 Thread Benson Muite
ufo2ft, pt-astra-sans-font and pt-astra-serif-font were created in error, the repositories have incorrect names. It seems empty/replicated repositories cannot be deleted. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an em

Re: Unretire rubygem-logging

2022-10-04 Thread Benson Muite
On 10/4/22 02:05, Robby Callicotte via devel wrote: On Tuesday, September 27, 2022 2:13:25 AM CDT Vít Ondruch wrote: I have set up copr repos for test-kitchen and kitchen-salt.[1][2] I am also in the process of opening up bzs for review. I have a few questions regarding embedded fonts in rd

Re: Unretire rubygem-logging

2022-10-04 Thread Benson Muite
On 10/4/22 11:29, Vít Ondruch wrote: Dne 04. 10. 22 v 10:01 Benson Muite napsal(a): On 10/4/22 02:05, Robby Callicotte via devel wrote: On Tuesday, September 27, 2022 2:13:25 AM CDT Vít Ondruch wrote: I have set up copr repos for test-kitchen and kitchen-salt.[1][2]  I am also in the

Re: fedpkg new-sources errors - fedorapeople certificate expiry

2022-10-07 Thread Benson Muite
-- Petr Possibly related (?), today I've noticed that opening a .fedorapeople website in a browser I get an error about expired certificate... Also prevents downloading spec and srpm files. Mattia ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproje

Re: Propositions to improve the documentation

2022-10-12 Thread Benson Muite
On 10/12/22 13:03, Sébastien Le Roux wrote: Dear All, I joined the packaging team recently, or should I say I joined the mailing list, since for the rest I am still looking for a sponsor and all that ... anyway I want to share few ideas with you ... In my first messages I highlighted that the d

Testing of software that utilizes GPUs

2022-10-20 Thread Benson Muite
Is there any way to test software that uses GPUs on COPR or Koji? The number of such packages will likely increase in future. In particular for software that uses ROCM, SYCL, Vulkan and OpenCL? ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

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