[CentOS-devel] Please allow me to introduce myself...

On 20/06/17 00:42, 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.
> 
> 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.
> 

welcome to CentOS

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