Hello @balakumaran ! Welcome to Fedora!
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your experience with Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) communities/ecosystems:
your background/skills, for example:
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Please write how much/whatever you wish. :).
I've sent below introduction mail to the Fedora-join mailing list.
Hello Everyone :),
I am Bala from India. I've 13+ years of software development experience.
I've submitted some minor bug fixes to the Linux Kernel community early in my career. So, I've experience with mailing-list based workflow. I'm a power user of FOSS for both work and personal use. Now, I wish to contribute back. your background/skills, for example:
I've participated in open source conferences and presented in a couple of kernel-meetups. I use Linux as my main development OS. It is a custom RPM based distribution. I'm proficient in C, Python and Shell scripting. Also, I've experience in RPM packaging your experience in communication platforms:
I was participating in the Linux-Kernel Mailing List earlier in my career. Matrix is my preferred real time chat platform I haven't moerated or administrated forums I'm expecting to contribute 6 to 10 hours a week
Regards, Bala
Metadata Update from @balakumaran: - Issue tagged with: S: Introduced myself
Raised my first PR - https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-httptools/pull-request/7
Awesome, congratulations! Please let us know if there's anything we can help with.
My first PR got merged. Now I'm willing to adopt the maintenance of and orphaned package xonsh. I showed my willingness by sending a mail to the devel mailing list - https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NDPHEPO4OMZBH6FHSEYJHDEQISMOXU3O/
Looking forward to the sponsorship process...
Opened my second PR to version-up xonsh - https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/xonsh/pull-request/10#
Metadata Update from @theprogram: - Issue untagged with: C: Introduction requested - Issue tagged with: C: Progress check 1
Hi Bala,
Sounds like you have got involved with Fedora.
If you need anything else, we can try and help.
Otherwise I will close your ticket and grant you "I am Fedora" tag.
Best regards! Mat
Metadata Update from @theprogram: - Issue tagged with: C: Progress check 2
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