User:Till

Fedora Information
FAS name:	till
Fedora email:	till@fedoraproject.org
IRC nick:	tyll
IRC channels:	#fedora-releng[?] #fedora-admin[?] #fedora-apps[?] #fedora-devel[?] #epel[?] #fedora-de[?]
Fedorapeople page:	https://till.fedorapeople.org
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• Languages: German, English
• Occupation: Senior Software Engineer
• Packages Fedorapeople Performed Review Requests Open Review Requests UpdatesFavourite Editor BlogOpen Hub profile

Fedora Overview

• Council Election 2018 Interview
• FESCo Election 2018 Interview
• FESCo Election 2017 Interview

Personal Fedora Milestones

• 2020: Elected into Mindshare
• 2020: Mentored as part of Fedora's Google Summer of Code participation
• 2019: Re-elected into Council
• 2018: Elected into Council, re-elected into FESCo
• 2017: Elected into FESCo
• 2014: Started to represent Fedora as Ambassador
• 2013: Fedora Infrastructure Apprentice & Release Engineer: Pushing (semi-)automation across relase engineering tasks for package cleanup, Rawhide signing and adopting HTTP Strict Transport Security for Fedora services
• 2010: Rapidly increased Fedora package QA feedback (karma) by implementing Fedora Easy Karma
• 2010: Initial assistance for Fedora Release Engineering handling buildroot overrides, contributions to Package DB
• 2009: Sponsor and Provenpackager, implemented and operated upstream release monitoring (until 2015)
• 2006: Fedora packager
• 2005: Switched to Fedora

other

• Database dumps: https://infrastructure.fedoraproject.org/infra/db-dumps/

• • interesting mails
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-July/msg00712.html - fomit-frame-pointers
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-August/msg00071.html - %lang %doc
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-August/msg00108.html - create snapshot with autotools
  • Review
• TillMaas/ReviewChecklist (outdated)
  • external references
• http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/ - desktop-file groups
• http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ - desktop files
• http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/latest/ - icons
• TillMaas/ForwardTest
• TillMaas/Sandbox: My sandbox
• User:Till/Wiki_Howto
• Fedora Banners in Germany: Height: 110 cm, 17 cm diameter, 7.5 kg weight

Code

• rerun autotools

libtoolize --automake --copy --force
aclocal-1.9
autoheader
automake-1.9 --add-missing --force-missing --copy
autoconf

• make configure not to reconfigure itself: In configure.in (or configure.ac) add after AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE

AM_MAINTAINER_MODE

koji links

• https://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/wyrd
• https://koji.fedoraproject.org/scratch/
• koji download-build

SELinux

• restorecon relabels files with type file_t (which means the file has no label)
• mount -o context=system_u:object_r:tmp_t:s0 /dev/mapper/tmp /tmp - correct context for /tmp filesystem

Debuginfo Packages

• %global debug_package %{nil}
• Packaging/Debuginfo

RPM Comment/Macro Weirdness

• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-February/msg00165.html
• http://www.redhat.com/advice/tips/rpm_revisited.html

Subpackage Requires

• rpm -ql foo-devel | grep /usr/include | xargs grep -h 'include ' | sort | uniq
• rpm -ql foo-python | grep python | xargs grep -h 'import ' | sort | uniq