Self-Introduction: Jonas Pasche

Fri Jan 16 14:58:31 UTC 2004

Welcome Jonas we are in need of documentation.  I have been trying to write down faq's.  And review the site.  I am not certain who you need to coordinate with to get setup for updating the site.  Talke with Jesse, and Eric Rostetter.

We need to get some guidelines (read docs) together for Publishing a package.  Everyone seems to take the same approach.  Just do it, then we spend time in the channel being told to do XYZ with gpg and bugzilla.  Start with taking what Fedora has for publishing guidelines.  I don't know if it will be hard for you to do this if you never tried to publish a package.  If you start with something we can refine it as we go.  This goes for the QA docs too.

The other thing we need is QA process well documented.  This seems to be the other thing people get wrong off the bat.  QA is more about verifying that people aren't putting in trojans.  I believe testing is more of a process after the package is published into RPMS.testing.  This way testers don't get screwed.  While we still don't have a clear policy for verifiying something is secure, I believe we have adopted some of what Fedora has done in the past.  If you can start there and extrapolate what we have started to talk about on the list in the past two weeks on the topic.

But then again you don't need to listen to a word I say.  This is just a start of where I think we are the weakest.  BTW:  I would be more that happy to read and review your work.  There is another individual who emailed me off the list Bill who was also interested in helping review anything I wrote, Bill send an email to Jonas and get hooked up with him.  Maybe you two can partner up together.  I have to admit I will try to take on more tha I can do.  But I fit more into the Policy, QA, Packaging department.

Cheers,
Christian

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Christian Pearce
http://www.commnav.com

Jonas Pasche said:
> 
> 1. Full legal name
> 
>    Jonas Pasche [1]
> 
> 2. Country, City
> 
>    Germany, Darmstadt
> 
> 3. Profession or Student status
> 
>    System administration
> 
> 4. Company or School
> 
>    None; self-employed [2]
> 
> 5. Your goals in the Fedora Project
> 
>    - Which packages do you want to see published?
> 
>      Security fixes
> 
>    - Do you want to do QA?
> 
>      No, as I don't really know what to do to "do QA". My primary goal
>      is writing documentation (see next point), and I think it's better
>      to focus on one thing and do it right than doing too much things at
>      once and produce nothing helpful. Additionally, there seem to be
>      quite a handful of people that already could do QA.
> 
>    - Anything else special?
> 
>      Yes, I want to gather, summarize and write new documentation
>      for fedoralegacy.org, as the docs section on that site is
>      completely empty. I guess that with 7.3/8.0/9 EOL many people
>      will get to know Fedora Legacy, and most of them wouldn't have
>      heard of Fedora, apt or yum before and "just want to use it"
>      without a high learning curve. I'm good at clarifying and
>      summarizing things to make them more usable the end user.
>      However, I'm not a native speaker - I'll do my best to write
>      clean English, but it would be preferred if somebody could
>      look over what I write to check for correct grammar and style.
> 
> Historical qualifications
> 
>    - What other projects have you worked on in the past?
> 
>      I have long worked in tech support at an ISP, where I have been
>      also developing web interfaces for different types of applications,
>      mainly a DNS management software. Unfortunately it isn't free
>      software because of my work contract, but at least there are still
>      some screenshots at [3].
> 
>      In 2001 I have completed my RHCE exam on RHL 7.0 [4].
> 
>      I have held quite some courses; topics varying from website
>      development through common Red Hat Linux installation and usage
>      to DNS and mail server management, and people revisited me in
>      other courses, so I think I don't have been too bad. ;-)
>      
>      I've been a contributor to the qmail and vchkpw mailing lists. You
>      can check my posting history at the MARC list archives [5] as well
>      as having a look on my patches for tools of the qmail world [6].
> 
>      I'm currently supporting the German DynDNS provider www.selfhost.de
>      with conceptual and technical help and have written the Linux
>      Updater Software for that service.
> 
>    - What computer languages and other skills do you know?
> 
>      Languages: bash, Perl
> 
>      Other skills: Good knowledge of system administration in general,
>                    well-experienced with Red Hat Linux since 6.2
> 
>    - Why should we trust you? <--- too blunt?
> 
>      As I'm not going to create/sign/publish RPMs that might damage
>      people's computers, risk is low - simply judge from what and how
>      I'm going to write.
> 
> GPG KEYID and fingerprint
> 
> [jonas at leonardo jonas]$ gpg --fingerprint 1F6AB94E
> pub  1024D/1F6AB94E 2003-03-17 Jonas Pasche <mail at jptrainings.de>
>      Key fingerprint = 5FA7 12F9 4161 D71F D5FA  AD6B BB03 78B3 1F6A
> B94E
> uid                            Jonas Pasche <mail at jonaspasche.de>
> uid                            Jonas Pasche <mail at jonaspasche.com>
> sub  2048g/99F05557 2003-03-17 [expires: 2004-03-16]
> 
> 
> [1] http://jonaspasche.de/index.shtml
> [2] http://jonaspasche.com/ (German only)
> [3] http://www.domke.de/produkte/dns.html (German only)
> [4] https://www.redhat.com/training/certification/verify/
>     then enter "807001935302935"
> [5] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?s=Jonas+Pasche&q=a
> [6] http://jonaspasche.de/qmail/
>