Volunteering for CentOS

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Jordan Evans
<jordanevans19gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>    I recently saw a blog that gave me the idea to
volunteer for CentOS
>> 
http://misterd77.blogspot.com/2008/05/centos-52.html
>>   and I was wondering if the CentOS community had
any work that I could
>> help with. I could help with testing and
recompiling
>>   the packages, but I'm open to any suggestions and
if you have any work
>> you need help with thats within my abilities, I
>> --
>> Ubuntu, an African word meaning Slackware is too
hard for me
>
> Sorry, I pressed send too soon, I meant to say I will
be glad to try my best
> to help you

Hi Jordan,

Thanks for volunteering. As a first step I would say that
you keep
following this list so you get a idea what is happing inside
the
CentOS project. Secondly have a look at the CentOS wiki
(http://wiki.centos.org).
It contains a list of project (or possible
projects) and a ToDo section.

I don't know your interests but have a look around and let
us know
what you think.

Regards,
Tim

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83

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the
"microsoft approach to programming" and should
never be allowed.
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On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Jordan Evans
<jordanevans19gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     I took a look at the various projects and the ToDo
list, the project
> that interested me Pandora, although I would have to
brush up on my python
> ;). It seems there is not much information on it
though. Another project
> that interested me was Cranberry but there is also very
little information
> on it.
>

Very nice that you find some projects you like. Normally the
people
responsable for those projects will respond to your mail. If
not mail
again to centos-devel and say explicitly that you would like
to help
on a certain project. Also, some people are busy so it may
take a
couple of days for them to respond.

Regards,
Tim

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83

Hoping the problem magically goes away by ignoring it is
the
"microsoft approach to programming" and should
never be allowed.
(Linus Torvalds)
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Hi Jordan,

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Jordan Evans
<jordanevans19gmail.com> wrote:
>     I took a look at the various projects and the ToDo
list, the project
> that interested me Pandora, although I would have to
brush up on my python
> ;).

I could use help there, since I am pretty much stuck in the
thesis/work realm ;). To get started, you'd need some
experience with
Python and the Django web framework (which is fairly easy to
learn).
There are still many things that need to be done. From the
top of my
head, the most urgent things:

- Get up a demo of the current development snapshot.
- Store all Changelog entries for one changelog together in
one
record. Now there is a separate table with all the
individual entries,
which is slow ;).
- Add RSS feeds.
- Use a different non-python metadata parser. Maybe the yum
C metadata
parser can be used or reused (IIRC it can't be used as-is,
because
we're interested in all package versions for Pandora, not
just the
latest).

The first three should all be relatively easy to do. If
you'd like to
work on one or more of these items, let us know. diffs
against the
tree are welcome on this list (so that they don't get lost,
and can
get peer-review).

Take care,
Daniel
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