Self Introduction / Contributing a package to Fedora

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 15:18:04 -0500
Derek Pressnall <derekp7 at needcaffeine.net> wrote:

> I have a question about contributing a package to Fedora.  Is it
> common for the author of an open source package to act as package
> maintainer?  Or is it better to have someone else be the package
> maintainer (who is more experienced with the Fedora build
> processes)?  I'm the author of a backup utility which fills a niche
> between tools based on rsync, and the heavy-weight full featured
> backup tools, which I think would be a good fit for a typical Fedora
> user.  I already have an SRPM available on the Github project site
> (www.snebu.com), but it may need a bit more work to get it in line
> with the Fedora build system.  I've also been reading through the
> package maintainer guidelines, and am willing to go through the
> process too, if needed.  I have already created my Fedora and
> Bugzilla accounts, and will spin up Koji this weekend to play with.

As with so many things in life... 'it depends' ;) 

As an upstream maintainer you are of course just as welcome as anyone
else to submit and get your package reviewed and maintain it in Fedora. 

Other upstreams prefer to have someone else maintain their project in
the various distros as that gives them more time to concentrate on
upstream development. 

It's up to you and what works best for you and your project.

I would say that having multiple fedora maintainers for a package is a
good idea, as that way you have others to bounce your ideas off of,
others to push updates or handle bugs when you are busy, etc. 

kevin
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