Self-Introduction: Paul Howarth
Michael Schwendt
bugs.michael at gmx.net
Fri May 6 12:05:36 UTC 2005
On Fri, 06 May 2005 11:58:32 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm Paul Howarth from Manchester (UK) and would like to be a Fedora
> Extras developer. I've already registered on the accounts page and
> submitted the license agreement successfuly.
>
> I'm currently employed as a chip designer by a company called Xyratex,
> who are in Storage and Networking. However, my activities as a developer
> are done in my spare time and are not company-related.
>
> I currently maintain the Red Hat/Fedora RPM packages for the following
> projects:
>
> * libspf2 (http://www.libspf2.org/)
> * GTorrentViewer (http://gtorrentviewer.sourceforge.net/index.html)
> * PPTP Client (http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/)
>
> I would eventually like to port these packages into Extras, starting
> with PPTP Client, which enables Unix/Linux systems to connect to
> Microsoft VPN servers. I am also happy to help with QA for other packages.
>
> I'm quite familar with C, sh and awk, but tend to focus more on
> packaging than actual development these days. To this end, I currently
> maintain my own repository of packages, which I use to keep my own home
> and work systems updated (http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/).
>
> I am also a regular contributor on fedora-list
>
> GPG details:
> pub 1024D/161C06B1 1997-09-25 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
> Key fingerprint = A511 62B6 9B79 580C E0B9 1770 7A65 92CF 161C 06B1
> uid Paul Howarth <paul_howarth at xyratex.com>
> sub 2048g/CA62663C 1997-09-25
>
> Would anyone care to sponsor me for CVS access?
If you included direct links to your candidate src.rpm packages, that
might be beneficial. I've tried to take a brief look at your repository,
but got lost in the number of sub-directories and packages. The libspf2
src.rpm I found is bloated with macros and conditional spec file sections.
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