I haven’t blogged lately. For some reason since the popularization of Facebook posts and tweets, my ability to write more than a few coherent sentences have greatly diminished. Perhaps it is just me getting old but change is what change does and a lot of change has happened recently. The biggest recent change is me getting a promotion to Senior Software Engineer and moving from the Fedora team to the OpenShift team inside of Red Hat. Yes, I have traded Beefy Miracles for Space Pandas and I think the change has done me some good. I have wanted to transition to a more customer driven structured part of Red Hat without sacrificing the excitement of working with a fast moving project. OpenShift fit the bill very nicely with their agile development workflow in the emerging field of PaaS (Platform as a Service) cloud development. It is also nice having a large and growing team to work with.
My involvement with PyGObject
That being said most of my hacking time will be spent on OpenShift related projects and while I had already transitioned out of day to day PyGObject maintainership some time ago, I will no longer have any real time to dedicate to the project (I’m actually learning Ruby right now). To tell the truth, not being able to put any more serious time into the project is one of the major reasons I decided I needed a change. There are a number of other people still contributing to the project but it is sorely in need of a lead maintainer who can do releases, keep people on schedule and ping the right people when bugs languish. I feel PyGObject is in good shape but as it begins to get more uptake bugs fixes need to be committed, edge cases corralled and the last mile needs to be traversed. I will still hang out in #python on GIMPNet and can be persuaded to look at patches or even write a few if you ping me and are nice.
Jobs
With me leaving the Fedora team there is now an opening for someone to join the team. They are looking for an all around FOSS rock star who can work in a number of different areas such as packaging, desktop and web development, and any number of miscellaneous skill your would encounter with any FOSS project. The main responsibilities would be maintaining, improving and integrating our infrastructure tools such as Fedora Community Packages web app, Bodhi update tool and Fas accounts system as well as developing tools to make it easier to contribute to Fedora. Most of the tools are written in Python so being a Python expert is a big plus as well as having worked as part of a team on any major open source project. If that sounds like fun to you send me your resume (I get a bonus if you get hired).
OpenShift is also expanding so if any of these jobs look more like your speed feel free to mail me also.
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