Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
Tag: <span>contribution</span>

Fedora kernel engineer.

Red Hat has an immediate opening for a full-time engineer to join the kernel team in Fedora Engineering. This job will work with Josh Boyer and Justin Forbes to maintain and improve the kernel in Fedora, and participate and contribute to upstream development and testing. This job interacts with the Fedora team and community, the …

Git by a bus.

David Gay pointed me to an interesting project called Git by a Bus. Git by a Bus analyzes your git repository and attempts to quantify risk of having lots of code knowledge tied up in only a few people. Git by a Bus does its analysis by going through the …

Sub Hub hubbub.

Have you seen Máirín Duffy’s post on the Fedora Design team’s next-generation design for the Fedora Project website? It’s a brilliant design based around the idea of a “sub hub.” These screens help customize the website to fit different sub-communities, initiatives, teams, or projects. Máirín published this post with the …

PulseCaster 0.1.10 released!

Today I released PulseCaster 0.1.10 with some under the hood improvements: Switch from GConf to GSettings, and include schema file Providing appdata for GNOME Software Provide hidden “audiorate” key for 44.1/48 kHz selection Complete GObject introspection switchover, eliminating excess dependencies and fixing bugs (RHBZ #1045717) Automatically provide .ogg filename extension …

Contributions of late.

Here’s a smattering of stuff I’ve been doing in the Fedora Project lately. Although I don’t get to spend as much time on Fedora in my new job, I’ve been putting aside some off hours and a portion of Friday (or as I like to call it, my “no meetings …

Fedora 14 Alpha is go!

As John posted last night, Fedora 14 Alpha was declared ready for release next week. Although there was a one-week slip to handle the fact that our blocker list wasn’t clear, Fedora developers and testers in the community have worked hard together both to resolve the remaining issues and make …

A spoonful of sugar.

Kevin, Thanks for your thoughtful posting about being helpful in the Fedora support channels. I think among the keys to understanding what someone seeking help needs — let’s just call this person “Nathan” to make this blog post easier to read — are: Good listening skills Good empathizing skills Essentially, …