Package maintainer policy

Fedora Package Maintainers Policies

This document should give you a quick overview of all the relevant policies for Fedora Package Collection. It covers only the most important things -- each section has a link to a document with more detailed explanations and examples that outline how to lay out the rules. For a full list of documents see the end of this document .

On maintaining packages

Who is allowed to modify which packages

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What to do if a maintainer is absent

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Co-Maintainership

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BugZappers' Role

• Help package maintainers save time by assisting in the bug work flow: mark duplicates, ask for more information from reporter and add trackers/blockers
• Guide Fedora EOL through HouseKeeping
• Rebase rawhide Bugzilla tickets during EOL (e.g. all bugs versioned rawhide become versioned to release X when it goes GA)
• Send emails to relevant mailing lists and add comments in Bugzilla to inform users of upcoming EOL, version change, etc

Fedora Maintenance Lifecycle Policy

• See Fedora Release Life Cycle

Review workflow

What to do with stalled reviews

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FESCo

FESCo elections

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