Re: New contributor - hello, and looking for sponsorship!

On 23.10.2008 20:44, Hans de Goede wrote: > > Chris Nolan wrote: >> >> I'm looking to become involved as a package maintainer at rpmfusion/livna. I haven't previously submitted packages to Fedora so I'll be looking for a sponsor - I know you guys are busy with the migration to rpmfusion but I'm hopeful someone can spend some time with a new contributor. Initially I'd like to submit a new package: the new Broadcom drivers kernel module that does away with requiring ndiswrapper for those chipsets unsupported by b43. I have used this driver on F9 and it works beautifully so IMO it would be a great addition to rpmfusion/livna. > > First of all welcome to the rpmfusion community / project! +1 >> Please let me know what should be my next steps (I've got a rpmfusion bugzilla account) and I'd be really grateful if a sponsor was willing to spend a little time with me on the finer points of RPM building. I'll try to make myself available on this list and in the IRC rooms (cnolan). > [...] > > As for looking for a sponsor, as your main interest at the moment seems to be getting the bcm module packaged (which I think is great, many people will like that), I think it would be best if Thorsten works with you to get that kmod > package in to shape, as he knows most about kmods. Yeah, I'm willing to help and to act as sponsor. But I don't mind if I get help from existing contributors/other interested parties in getting the userland into shape -- which at least in the case of open-vm-tools https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67 is a lot more complicate then the kmod package. I in fact had packaging the driver pretty high on my own todo list and talked to Makurin Roman (CCed) a few days ago already when he added the driver to our steadily growing wishlist ( http://rpmfusion.org/Wishlist ). He offered help with testing the driver (and with packaging later maybe as well). I'd say with three people we hopefully should get that driver into the repos quickly. Chris, I'll just wait for review request in bugzilla then. If you need help with that let me know; contact data can be found on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThorstenLeemhuis CU knurd