[fedora-india] Becoming a Fedora package maintainer, easier, than ever

[Anuj More]

> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:09:06 +0530
> From: Rahul Sundaram<metherid at gmail.com>
> Subject: [fedora-india] Becoming a Fedora package maintainer,	easier
> 	than ever
> To: Fedora India<india at lists.fedoraproject.org>
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> Hi
>
> Just a heads up for anyone not reading devel-announce list or missed the
> implication of the announcement.  A recent change was announced in
>
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-February/000757.html
>
> Instead of having to submit your own package for review and prove your
> expertise by reviewing other packages and so on,  there is a easier way
> now.  You can become a co-maintainer by agreeing to be mentored by any
> existing package maintainer and one of the sponsors will sponsor you
> based on this agreement to work together.  I tried this method and
> recently Christopher Smart became a co-maintainer to deja-dup and pushed
> a few updates already via this method (afaik the first person to do
> so).   It took only two or three days of discussions (admittedly a lot
> of them) for the whole process.
>
> All of the existing Fedora package maintainers, interested in getting
> people to participate can follow the recently documented policy and I
> would be happy to mentor anyone interested as well.
>
> Rahul
>
>
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My prayers have finally been answered. Heading to the wiki page right now.
Thanks.
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