User:Denisarnaud

Denis Arnaud

I first installed RedHat (version 5, in 1998) with Oracle 8, when that latter was delivered on Linux for the first time... on a small Pentium-based computer with 600MB of disk and 64MB of RAM, hence proving to my hierarchy that Linux was ready for professional use. I started to be involved in the Fedora building process by translating documents and package descriptions, and have become a packager in 2009.

Contact

• Location: Grasse, France (Paris Time, CET UTC+1 / CEST UTC+2)
• Email: mailto:denis.arnaud_fedora@m4x.org
• GPG key: Denis Arnaud (Fedora Packager)
• Fedora Account: denisarnaud
• Fedora VOIP: Extension #5105604 / SIP Address: sip:denisarnaud@fedoraproject.org
• Fedora People Page: http://denisarnaud.fedorapeople.org
• SourceForge: denis_arnaud
• Ohloh: denis_arnaud
• Twitter: denis_arnaud
• Skype: denis.arnaud100
• Google Talk: denis.arnaud
• Yahoo! Messaging: denis_arnaud
• AIM: darnaud100
• Blog: http://fossdev.blogspot.com

Activities within Fedora

• Boost 1.48 Feature for Fedora 17 (to be completed at the latest in February 2012)
• Boost 1.47 Feature for Fedora 16 (completed in September 2011)
• Boost 1.46 Feature for Fedora 15 (completed in early 2011)
• Boost 1.44 Feature for Fedora 14 (completed mid 2010)
• Boost 1.41 Feature for Fedora 13 (completed in early 2010)
• Bringing and maintaining a few packages to Fedora:
  • My own open source software:
    • OpenTREP, OpenTravelData and OpenGeo++
    • Airline Travel Market simulation components: RMOL (PkgDB / SF, Standard Airline IT C++ Library (PkgDB / SF), Airline Travel Market Simulation Manager C++ Library, Airline Schedule C++ Library (PkgDB, SF), Airline Inventory C++ Library (SF, PkgDB), Travel CCM C++ Library (SF, PkgDB), Travel Demand Generator C++ Library (SF, PkgDB), Simulation-Related Discrete Event Management C++ Library, Airline Revenue Accounting C++ Library (SF, PkgDB), Airline Availability Calculation C++ Library, Simulated Pricing System C++ Library (SF, PkgDB), Simulated Reservation System C++ Library, Simulated Low Fare Search System C++ Library.
    • Extra CPPUnit and CruiseControl Tools
  • Some others which have made their way into Fedora (e.g., WSDLPull, SOCI, R-msm, R-RM2)
  • Some others not yet in Fedora (e.g., BLCR, Eucalyptus, Slurm)
• Translations (into French).

A few quick links on Fedora packages (to ease my maintenance tasks)

• First of all, a link to the wonderful Fedora Community platform (not enough advertised!)

• Full list of packages waiting for a reviewer here.

• List of my packages available in Fedora.

• List of my packages that have passed review, are under review or await review.

• List of (open or closed) reviews for my packages.

• Reviews I have done: see full list or just packages under review or packages that have passed review.

• List of reviews where I have left some comments.

• The ticket for my application to the proven-packager group.

• Bugzilla Review Request template for simulator-related projects

Material for Reviews

Tracking of Package Requests

• New Review Requests, waiting for review (Cached for faster access)
• Review requests needing a sponsor
• Packages Currently Under Review (Cached for faster access)
• Packages Reviewed but not Closed
• General Cache for the Package Review Status

Documentation

Packaging

• Packaging Guidelines
  • Packaging tricks
  • Update policy
  • Update how-to
  • Koji how-to
  • Bodhi-client how-to
  • Create a new rel-eng ticket
• Package Review Guidelines
• Package Review Process
• Package SCM/Git Request
• Package Review SIG
• Welcome page for the package maintainers

Hacking on Fedora/RedHat/CentOS

• Out 0f office notification
• All the SIGs (Special Interest Groups)
  • Geographic Information System (GIS) SIG
  • Cloud SIG
  • Package Review SIG
  • Science and Technology SIG
  • Server SIG

Virtualisation / Cloud Computing

• Virtualisation
• Getting started with virtualization
• Cloud SIG

Tools

• (third party) Review helper tool
• Fedora active user Python script (see also the corresponding Git repository)

Brainstorming Section about Packaging

Using Git Work-flow for Packaging

• Building Debian packages with a Git workflow using "git-buildpackage":
  • http://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit
  • http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.html
  • http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/notes/debian/git.html
• Keeping patches as commits on a "patch-queue" branch:
  • https://honk.sigxcpu.org/piki/development/debian_packages_in_git/
• Another tool for managing Debian packages with Git, "git-dpm":
  • http://git-dpm.alioth.debian.org/
  • http://git-dpm.alioth.debian.org/examples.html
• Recent discussions on Git packaging workflows in Debian:
  • http://wiki.debian.org/GitPackagingWorkflow
  • http://wiki.debian.org/GitPackagingWorkflow/DebConf11BOF
  • http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/07/msg00771.html
• TopGit, a patch-queue manager:
  • http://repo.or.cz/w/topgit.git?a=blob;f=README
• Recent discussions in Fedora about that subject:
  • http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-September/156403.html
  • https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/nice-rpm-git-patch-management-trick
• Proposal to add version control key within the specification file