Hello, I am glad to join with you CentOS devs and testers. I am ready to spend my hours for centos testing. I am sure i may help you a little. I will be glad to hlep you like Jordan Evans. :)

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Jordan Evans jordanevans19@gmail.com wrote:

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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

Best wishes, Jordan

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On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:32 AM, Tim Verhoeven tim.verhoeven.be@gmail.com wrote:

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Jordan Evans jordanevans19@gmail.com wrote:

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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

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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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Hi Tim,

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.

Best wishes, Jordan

Hi Jordan,

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Jordan Evans jordanevans19@gmail.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