[CentOS-devel] Please allow me to introduce myself... (as a Ceph contributor)

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 05:42:39PM -0600, Al Stone wrote:
> Howdy.
> 
> I've recently had the desire to get more involved in the CentOS community --
> both from professional and personal interests.  So, please allow me to introduce
> myself to both CentOS folks, and to storage folks in particular.
> 
> I have two goals, really: (1) make sure that Ceph upstream builds from scratch
> on aarch64 and ppc64le; that also means making sure that initial tests (i.e.,
> make check) pass and that ultimately the full test suite passes; (2) make sure
> that the CentOS packages are as close to upstream as possible.

Welcome Al!

I've added you as a member to the GitHub team that manages the Ceph
"dist-git like" repositories under https://github.com/CentOS-Storage-SIG
Once you are ready, please check with alphacc, fcami, dmsimard, gfidente
and number80 (IRC nicks in #centos-devel) what they were planning for
the Ceph packages in the Storage SIG.

Let me know if there is anything unclear or if there is something you
need additional priviledges for or assistence with.

Thanks,
Niels


> For the first goal, the idea would be to work with upstream or anyone else to
> fully support more than just x86, even for development work.  That's going to
> take a while since I'm new to the Ceph community but eager to join in; I've
> spent several years working with file systems and look forward to growing that
> knowledge.
> 
> For the second goal, I would hope to be able to assist the current maintainer
> for Ceph packages and broaden the availability of Ceph.  Since I'm really just
> getting started on the upstream work, I haven't jumped into this part yet.  By
> the same token, though, I do have some experience as a Debian Developer and as
> a Fedora Packager that could be of use.
> 
> I've also got the same goals for Fedora (eventually), and I am approaching it
> the same way -- make sure upstream is solid and stable on all architectures, and
> then make sure the packages are as up-to-date as they can be.
> 
> As far as my personal background goes, I was literally a rocket scientist for a
> while, working on guidance algorithms for the flight systems.  I've also been
> involved with Linux on some level for about two decades.  The last few years
> have seen a lot of kernel work on ARMv8 (I drove the implementation of the ACPI
> subsystem for servers), and before that a port of the BSD file system to a
> proprietary OS that had to support asynchronous operations but had no real
> concept of processes or even tasks.  Before that was a smattering of all sorts
> of things -- compiler work, tech support, technical consulting, the Andrew file
> system, the NCS (Network Computing System -- that probably dates me some :), and
> even some management (I swear I have fully recovered from that).
> 
> Thanks for your time and patience in getting this far; I look forward to working
> with the community and helping to build a better CentOS.
> 
> -- 
> ciao,
> al
> -----------------------------------
> Al Stone
> Software Engineer
> Red Hat, Inc.
> ahs3 at redhat.com
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