I have been using Fedora for ages right from the first release. I am a C programmer since 1989. I know how to build RPM and Debian packages. I use the gnu autoconf, automake, libtool to build most of my work. I use vi and I use combination of RCS and git for version control. I am quite familiar with using many of the system calls. I strive to write portable code that compiles on linux and OSX. All my laptops, my mediacenter runs on Fedora and so I am familiar with Fedora for more than a decade. I want to contribute one of my major work - indimail-mta (a replacement for sendmail/postfix). indimail-mta has been built upon the original work by DJ Bernstein's qmail which was released to public domain in 2007 AFAIK. qmail as released by DJB is not FHS compliant. Also over the years, many have contributed to the source code in form of patches. I have fixed these issues (minor IMHO) and I do have RPMs released in public domain with the help of opensuse build service. Just recently I have been fixing things to make qmail FHS compliant and I thought I could also start working towards making a small contribution to fedora. But I am a newbie as far as the wonderful behind-the-scene-packaging that happens on Fedora.
I have just created a fedora id and bugzilla id. Also I have been reading on how to contribute. I have so far read the following
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_Review_Process
I find the information overwhelming and I am not sure if I am reading the right documentation OR maybe it is my old dying grey cells. Any pointers on showing me the way would help me and I will try my best to meet the expectations and quality guidelines of the community. Also I am not sure if I can do this alone. So any help is welcome, especially from someone who loves qmail.
Thank you in advance Regards Manvendra
On 06/09/2016 07:10 AM, Manvendra Bhangui wrote:
I have been using Fedora for ages right from the first release. I am a C programmer since 1989. I know how to build RPM and Debian packages. I use the gnu autoconf, automake, libtool to build most of my work. I use vi and I use combination of RCS and git for version control. I am quite familiar with using many of the system calls. I strive to write portable code that compiles on linux and OSX. All my laptops, my mediacenter runs on Fedora and so I am familiar with Fedora for more than a decade. I want to contribute one of my major work - indimail-mta (a replacement for sendmail/postfix). indimail-mta has been built upon the original work by DJ Bernstein's qmail which was released to public domain in 2007 AFAIK. qmail as released by DJB is not FHS compliant. Also over the years, many have contributed to the source code in form of patches. I have fixed these issues (minor IMHO) and I do have RPMs released in public domain with the help of opensuse build service. Just recently I have been fixing things to make qmail FHS compliant and I thought I could also start working towards making a small contribution to fedora. But I am a newbie as far as the wonderful behind-the-scene-packaging that happens on Fedora.
I have just created a fedora id and bugzilla id. Also I have been reading on how to contribute. I have so far read the following
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_Review_Process
I find the information overwhelming and I am not sure if I am reading the right documentation OR maybe it is my old dying grey cells. Any pointers on showing me the way would help me and I will try my best to meet the expectations and quality guidelines of the community. Also I am not sure if I can do this alone. So any help is welcome, especially from someone who loves qmail.
Thank you in advance Regards Manvendra
Hello, Manvendra, and welcome to Fedora! We're always happy to see new faces. :)
Creating your Fedora account in FAS was the first step to beginning your journey to contributing. A FAS account is the key to doing any form of contributing in Fedora.
Packaging is a great way to get involved with the project and help make an impact fairly quickly. There are some guidelines for getting started with packaging as you listed, but I know they can probably come off overwhelming a little bit.
A good first step might be to subscribe to the development mailing list for Fedora and hang out in IRC channels on freenode relevant for packaging and development in Fedora. For starters, check out this mailing list and consider subscribing to it to connect to other developers and packagers in Fedora.
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel.lists.fedoraproject.org/
Once subscribing to the mailing list, you should also consider hanging out in some IRC channels for Fedora, like #fedora-devel. If you are not that familiar with IRC, consider reading this handy guide on getting started with it.
https://fedoramagazine.org/beginners-guide-irc/
I am not personally familiar with the packaging process for Fedora as I'm not as heavily involved with that side of the project, but hopefully someone else on this can help offer some pointers for how you can get started contributing as a packager in Fedora. If you have any other questions about contributing to Fedora, please let us know and we'd be happy to help!
Again, welcome to the Fedora Project. :)
-- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7@gmail.com
A good first step might be to subscribe to the development mailing list for Fedora and hang out in IRC channels on freenode relevant for packaging and development in Fedora. For starters, check out this mailing list and consider subscribing to it to connect to other developers and packagers in Fedora.
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel.lists.fedoraproject.org/
Thank you for this information. I have joined the fedora-devel list. Since the last time I wrote, I did some reading and have gathered that one needs to follow the fedora packaging guidelines. There is also a tool - fedora-review which helps us in reviewing the package. I have installed fedora-review on my machine and I am currently working towards improving my rpm spec file
Once subscribing to the mailing list, you should also consider hanging out in some IRC channels for Fedora, like #fedora-devel. If you are not that familiar with IRC, consider reading this handy guide on getting started with it.
https://fedoramagazine.org/beginners-guide-irc/
Though I am not familiar with IRC, I will take effort in learning how to use it. Thank you for the help. Much appreciated. Regards Manvendra
On 06/14/2016 01:44 AM, Manvendra Bhangui wrote:
A good first step might be to subscribe to the development mailing list for Fedora and hang out in IRC channels on freenode relevant for packaging and development in Fedora. For starters, check out this mailing list and consider subscribing to it to connect to other developers and packagers in Fedora.
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel.lists.fedoraproject.org/
Thank you for this information. I have joined the fedora-devel list. Since the last time I wrote, I did some reading and have gathered that one needs to follow the fedora packaging guidelines. There is also a tool - fedora-review which helps us in reviewing the package. I have installed fedora-review on my machine and I am currently working towards improving my rpm spec file
Once subscribing to the mailing list, you should also consider hanging out in some IRC channels for Fedora, like #fedora-devel. If you are not that familiar with IRC, consider reading this handy guide on getting started with it.
https://fedoramagazine.org/beginners-guide-irc/Though I am not familiar with IRC, I will take effort in learning how to use it. Thank you for the help. Much appreciated. Regards Manvendra
Glad I was able to help, Manvendra! If you have any further questions, just let us know. :)
-- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7@gmail.com
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