[packman] Hello Everyone!

Hans-Peter Jansen hpj at urpla.net
Sat Sep 25 20:47:59 CEST 2021


Hi Simon,

Am Samstag, 25. September 2021, 20:34:38 CEST schrieb Simon Vogl:
> Hello Everyone!
> 
> First things first, my name is Simon Vogl, and I recently joined the
> packman mailing lists & signed up for the packman build service with the
> user name "DarkWav".
> 
> I've been active on openSUSE's regular OpenBuildService under my common
> pseudonym "DarkWav" for a little while now, trying to fix individual
> bugs of existing packages and I'm currently (co-)maintaining one
> official package in openSUSE, namely QMPlay2:
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/multimedia:apps/QMPlay2.
> 
> In the past I've often run into the situation that I wanted to package a
> proprietary/non-oss application for openSUSE but unfortunately was only
> able to do so locally due to openSUSE OBS' Terms of Service, and for
> proprietary applications that do allow redistribution in their license
> terms that was quite frustrating at times.
> 
> In PMBS, I hope to be able to experiment with such packages in my home
> Project more freely, and I'm also interested in the ability to link
> applications against e.g. fully-fledged FFmpeg libraries.
> 
> Potentially, once I feel comfortable about some package's quality and my
> ability to maintain it I might even submit something in the more distant
> future 😁.

A warmth welcome for you, Simon, get wild, but never forget to have a lot of 
fun!

Best,
Pete





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