fedora-join February 2020

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Looking for co-maintainer for xmedcon and deps: will help learn packaging and sponsor
by Ankur Sinha 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

Hi, I'm looking for a co-maintainer to help me maintain (and keep) xmedcon in Fedora. It is a commonly used open source medical image conversion toolkit: https://xmedcon.sourceforge.io/ I will help you learn packaging and will also help you get sponsored to the packager group. The idea is that over time, you will become the main maintainer for xmedcon in Fedora and use your skills to help maintain other packages in Fedora also. - time requirements: you will need to commit at least 2-3 hours a week to Fedora tasks, - skills required: none, you can learn "on the job". Packages that you will be looking after to start with: - xmedcon: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/xmedcon and its dependencies. Currently, we need to package tpclib to replace two of its components (and update them to latest upstream versions) - https://gitlab.utu.fi/vesoik/tpcclib - https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/libtpcimgio - https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/libtpcmisc For more information on what package maintainers do, please look at: - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers Please read the provided links, and e-mail me off-list if you are interested. -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" (He / Him / His) | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha Time zone: Europe/London

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Easyfix: how can we improve it
by Ankur Sinha 22 Feb '20

22 Feb '20

Hello, As discussed in the other thread, we'd like to improve Easyfix[1]. In general, there are two areas: the "producers" who add their tasks to the Easyfix list, and the "consumers" who use the list. So: - is adding to Easyfix easy? Do community members know about it? Do they actively add their tickets to it? Can something be done to make the generation of Easyfix easier/better? - is accessing and using Easyfix easy? Do people use the list to find tasks? Can something be used to make the consumption of Easyfix easier? Any other ideas? [1] https://fedoraproject.org/easyfix/ -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" (He / Him / His) | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha Time zone: Europe/London

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Advanced Python task: Allow FedoraReview to use Koji for scratch builds
by Ankur Sinha 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

Hello people, Here is a slightly advanced Python task if someone wants to give it a try: https://pagure.io/FedoraReview/issue/17 Context -------- FedoraReview is a tool that package maintainers use to review new package tickets: https://pagure.io/FedoraReview You can install is using `dnf install fedora-review`, and then you can run it on a review ticket by running `fedora-review -b #bugnumber` in a terminal. It does a lot of automated checks for us package maintainers, since there are quite a lot of new package reviews waiting: https://fedoraproject.org/PackageReviewStatus/NEW.html For example, I used it here to review the new nodejs-p-try package: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1796268#c2 Currently, FedoraReview uses "mock" to build the package on my local machine. This is great, but it only allows the package to be built on whatever architecture my machine is: x86_64 (64bit). In Fedora, however, we build packages for multiple architectures, and if something builds on x86_64, it may not on armv7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures So, if FedoraReview can be enhanced to use our main Koji build system for test builds, it will be able to verify if the package builds on all our architectures. https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/ More information on maintaining packages in Fedora here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers --------------- So, if you'd like to do some Python work, this is a good task to work on. Comment on the ticket, fork the repo, get started. See what you do + learn. If you have any general questions on this, please ask away here also. -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" (He / Him / His) | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha Time zone: Europe/London

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GNOME test day
by Alessio 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

Hi all. Today is GNOME 3.36 Test Day in Fedora. If you have time, you can contribute in finding bugs. You can download a Fedora 32 pre release ISO and test the GNOME DE in a virtual machine as well on bore metal. You can find more information in the dedicated wiki page [1] You can meet other testers in a dedicated IRC channel. There is also a nice video on YouTube! [2] Happy testing! :-) [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2020-02-20_Gnome_3.36_Test_Day [2] https://youtu.be/qbssBE6YB3s

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Feb 2020: Welcome to Fedora (and sorry for the notifications)
by Ankur Sinha 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

Hi everyone, If there is a ticket opened on the Welcome to Fedora Pagure project[1], then we've subscribed you to the mailing list. This is to enable us to communicate with everyone in one place, so that we can all converse together and share information that will help us learn more about the people of the Fedora community. This will, in turn, enable us to slowly learn the skills used and take up tasks. Most of us have already introduced ourselves on the tickets, but please feel free to re-send introductions here to the mailing list. Now, with that out of the way. For all the new people: What are you all up to? What have you seen in the community since you signed up for your FAS accounts? What do you find interesting? What challenges are you facing? How can we help? -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" (He / Him / His) | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha Time zone: Europe/London

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Few Ideas for Improving Fedora-Join SIG
by Alisha Mohanty 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

Most of the starters are not able to get all the information he/she requires while onboarding. A well-maintained Landing page is what they need, which should give them a clear and overall idea of what Fedora does and what are the fields that they find interesting. This will be a proper head start, and later when they are sure, guidance can be sought by Fedora Join SIG members. An assembly of all the required resources at one platform will not only help the newcomer to get a clear idea of what he/she will be doing with the different areas in the Fedora community, it will also help clear the doubts of the necessary question that might be running without the acknowledgment of any third person (sometimes starter who are beginners to open source feel shy to talk in a public platform). Proposed Solution Planning a better New comer’s landing page WIP: https://pagure.io/fedora-join/Fedora-Join/issue/161 We should update this https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join to provide the redirection saying it is not maintained, for recent update go to this https://pagure.io/fedora-join/Fedora-Join/issue/161 New Comer Landing page should have these proper redirections to these since these pages any newcomer would need to know Fedora well. Wcidff (which also need an update) (https://whatcanidoforfedora.org/en/) Easy-fix (https://fedoraproject.org/easyfix/) Fedora-apps (https://apps.fedoraproject.org/) Ideation of getting consistent contributors for Fedora! Organizing an Outreach Program I was thinking if we could do an outreach program for a short span(like 40-60 days) once a year, which would be something similar to that of a GSoC/Outreachy, but it would be solely organized by Fedora. It would draw the attention of people who want to be a part of the community and do great projects. It would be a great opportunity, where we could get potential long term contributors for Fedora. We could incorporate projects that require prior attention like Wcidff Working on the Docs etc Source of Inspiration - Season of KDE(https://season.kde.org/) Proposing Wcidff as a GSoC/Outreachy project would be a good idea. (More project related discussions is here https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/what-to-do-with-wcidff-warning/13302) A proper guideline for contributors to get a detailed idea of the areas that wcidff has like Design, Artwork Requests, Coding, etc. (A docs.f.o would be great) Converting this article to a docs.fp.o page might be helpful https://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-contribute-to-fedora/ (Suggestion- It might fit into CommOps docs https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/commops/ ) Apps. Fedora (https://apps.fedoraproject.org/) is a great resource for boarders to get a clear idea of different applications Fedora. But eventually, the site might go down as CPE Team might not want to maintain it. So, we should either get an alternative or maintain it. These were some of the ideas I thought might need some limelight and some I personally want to present. Any suggestions would be highly helpful!

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