Category:Package Maintainers

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Fedora Packages are maintained collectively by the Fedora Package Maintainers community.

Contributing roles

Contributing roles
This is only a suggestion for contributing roles. Only your imagination sets the limits.

Other useful links for Package Maintainers

Get Involved

• Want to become a member of the package collection maintainers? - Start your Membership here!

• Package Review Process - describes the formal review process (for both contributors and reviewers)
• Packaging SIGs - Informal groups of packagers working on specific areas of the distribution
• EPEL - Rebuild of Fedora packages for RHEL or compatible derivatives

Packaging Guidelines

The Packaging Committee handles the rules and guidelines for writing SPEC files for software in Fedora, which can be found on the Fedora Docs website. The most important ones:

• Packaging Guidelines
• Licensing Guidelines
• Package Naming Guidelines
• Dist Tag Guidelines
• Package Review Guidelines
• Recipes for RPM post scripts

Introduction to packaging

• How to create a GNU Hello RPM package - for those of us with shorter attention spans, preferring less detail.
• How to create an RPM package - start here if you don't know how to create an RPM package and want a detailed guide.
• Maximum RPM Book - most detailed, but slightly obsolete.
• RPM Guide - an in-depth guide to RPM.
• Building Packages Guide - Work through these examples, you'll learn a lot.

Procedures, Policies and Guides

• Package Review Process - Get a package into the Fedora Package Collection
• Package maintainer responsibilities - Your responsibilities if you maintain a package
• Updates Policy - Policy for when to push updates to packages and when not to
• Package maintenance guide - a guide, tips, and FAQs for using the Fedora package maintenance system
• Package update HOWTO - Procedure to update a package
• Package Renaming Process and Upgrade paths — renaming or splitting_packages - Procedure for properly obsoleting packages when they are renamed, split, or joined
• How to remove a package at end of life
• Using Mock to test package builds
• Using the Koji build system
• Using the Bodhi CLI tool
• Milestone freezes - how the Fedora Alpha, Beta and Final freezes affect packagers
• Fedora Release Life Cycle - information on the Fedora development process, particularly various freeze dates and such

Resources for Fedora Package Collection contributors

• SIGs - Fedora Special Interest Groups
• Fedora package components in bugzilla
• koji - Fedora Package Build System
• bodhi - Fedora Package Update System
• Vacation Calendar - Add a vacation note if you are going to be unavailable for a few days.
• Test Machines - Contributed servers for test, mock build, compile or debug packages before submitting to koji

Important Mailing Lists

• devel-announce is a low traffic, announcements only, list, where important development information is posted.
• devel is a high traffic mailing list, where discussions about the development of Fedora are held.
• package-announce is a very high traffic mailing list, where notifications are given for all the commits in any package in the Fedora repository. Note that the Fedora package database sends commit mails for packages you (co-)maintain.
• packaging is the mailing list of the Fedora Packaging Committee, who determine the official packaging guidelines for Fedora projects.

Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo)

Fedora technical management is organized by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo).