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[Kevin J. Woolley]

Hello folks,

Thanks to the people who set up this list -- it's perfect for people
like me who are in time zones that make it difficult to find the UK
contingent on IRC (like UTC-8).

I'll introduce myself briefly, for those who have had the pleasure of
avoiding me thus far.  :)  I'm a sysadmin by trade with developer
leanings doing most of my $dayjob work on Linux.  I've got experience
with C and C++ (to a lesser extent) as well as Perl, Python, Ruby,
Tcl, and several other languages to lesser degrees.  I have experience
building RPMs and writing specs from scratch, so hopefully pkgbuild
won't be too huge a hurdle.  My main interest is packaging up-to-date
versions of various bits of software and acting as a canary for
integration issues -- if something explodes while I'm working with it
I should be able to provide some useful knowledge to anyone who's
trying to integrate it.

That being said, I'm willing to play requests, too -- if there are
areas of documentation on build processes, etc. to be written or
updated I'll give it my best shot.  The time I have to offer is
probably around ten hours per week.

If someone knows of an up-to-date and complete tutorial where a common
bit of software is packaged the way we need it, please let me know.
If no such thing exists I'll try to put one together as I go along.

Cheers,

kjw