User:Rathann

Contact info

Email: rathann AT greysector DOT net
IRC : Rathann, channels: #fedora-pl, #fedora-devel, #fedora-server, #fedora-mini
JID: rathann at jabber dot org

About me

I work as an associate at the TOTEM experiment at CERN. I like to keep things neat and tidy, so whenever I come across some software that I need and that is missing from Fedora, I package it.

Fedora Contributions

Packages

The list of packages maintained by me can be found here.

The list of package reviews done by me is here.

Packages I'm currently working on are listed here

A nice interface to all my packages in all Fedora and EPEL branches.

Packager Sponsorship

I'm a sponsor and I'm always happy to sponsor people who show the necessary skill in creating packages. Contact me if you'd like me to help you become a Fedora Packager.

Here's a list of people I've sponsored so far and their packages. If they screw up, tell me.

• Jussi Lehtola packages
• Charles R. Anderson packages
• Daniel Haley packages
• Brennan Ashton packages
• Radosław Lisowski packages

Special Interest Groups and Committee membership

• Scientific and Technical
• x86-64
• Packaging Committee
• Fedora Mini
• Fedora Server

Community

• #fedora-pl and #fedora-mini IRC channels founder
• x86-64 SIG founder

Useful links

• Package Maintainers Reference
• Packaging Committee
• Bodhi
• Registered Desktop file Categories
• How to deal with undefined non-weak symbols
• Some Mono applications won't build under rpmbuild
• Markdown syntax for bodhi update descriptions

Dealing with TEXTRELs

• HOWTO Locate and Fix .text Relocations (TEXTRELs)
• shlib-with-non-pic-code: have inline assembly and PIC mix well
• U. Drepper's page about textrels

SELinux

• SELinux tips
• SELinux notes

pkg-config

• Guide to pkg-config
• Fixing .pc files in FFmpeg
• Requires.private in pkg-config

GIT in Fedora

• Using Fedora GIT
• Using git fast-forward merging

TODO

• investigate porting gnomeradio to GTK3 (see porting guide)