Re: [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(a)gmail.com>
>  Subject: [fedora-india] Becoming a Fedora package maintainer,	easier
>  	than ever
>  To: Fedora India<india(a)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/000...
>
>  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
>
>
>  ------------------------------ 
My prayers have finally been answered. Heading to the wiki page right now.
Thanks.