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 -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc