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<pre wrap="">Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:09:06 +0530
From: Rahul Sundaram <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:metherid@gmail.com"><metherid@gmail.com></a>
Subject: [fedora-india] Becoming a Fedora package maintainer, easier
than ever
To: Fedora India <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:india@lists.fedoraproject.org"><india@lists.fedoraproject.org></a>
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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
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-February/000757.html">http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-February/000757.html</a>
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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<small>My prayers have finally been answered. Heading to the wiki
page right now.<br>
Thanks.<br>
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