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Fedora Packages are maintained collectively by a community of both Red Hat members and volunteers.

Contributing roles

Contributing roles
This is only a suggestion for contributing roles. Only your imagination sets the limits.

Other useful links for Package Maintainers

Get Involved

• Want to become a member of the package collection maintainers? - Start your Membership here!

• Package Review Process - describes the formal review process (for both contributors and reviewers)
• Packaging SIGs - Informal groups of packagers working on specific areas of the distribution
• EPEL - Rebuild of Fedora packages for RHEL or compatible derivatives

Packaging Guidelines

The Packaging Committee handles the rules and guidelines for writing SPEC files for software in Fedora. The most important ones:

• Packaging Guidelines
• Licensing Guidelines
• Package Naming Guidelines
• Dist Tag Guidelines
• Package Review Guidelines
• Recipes for RPM post scripts

Further reading

• How to create a GNU Hello RPM package - for those of us with shorter attention spans, preferring less detail
• How to create an RPM package - start here if you don't know how to create an RPM package and want a detailed guide.
• Maximum RPM Book - most detailed, but slightly obsolete
• RPM Guide - an in-depth guide to RPM
• Building Packages Guide - Work through these examples, you'll learn a lot.

Procedures and Policies

• Package Review Process - Get a package into the Fedora Package Collection
• Package maintainer responsibilities - Your responsibilities if you maintain a package
• Updates Policy - Policy for when to push updates to packages and when not to
• Package update HOWTO - Procedure to update a package
• Package Renaming Process and Upgrade paths — renaming or splitting_packages - Guidelines to properly obsolete packages when they are renamed, splitted or joined.
• How to remove a package at end of life - Instructions about how to proceed if a package is removed from Fedora
• Fedora Release Life Cycle - information on the Fedora development process, particularly various freeze dates and such

Resources for Fedora Package Collection contributors

• SIGs - Fedora Special Interest Groups
• Fedora package components in bugzilla
• koji - Fedora Package Build System / Secure connection with Fedora User Cert
• Fedora Package Database
• bodhi - Fedora Package Update System
• RPM Repository Admin requests - Repository and Git status pages for requesting manual copies and removals of packages
• Vacation Notice - Add a vacation note if you are going to be unavailable for a few days.
• Test Machines - Contributed servers for test, mock build, compile or debug packages before submitting to koji
• Fedorapeople_Repos - A place to host various personal repos

Important Mailing Lists

• devel-announce is a low traffic, announcements only, list, where important development information is posted.
• devel is a high traffic mailing list, where discussions about the development of Fedora are held.
• package-announce is a very high traffic mailing list, where notifications are given for all the commits in any package in the Fedora repository. Note that the Fedora package database sends commit mails for packages you (co-)maintain.
• packaging is the mailing list of the Fedora Packaging Committee, who determine the official packaging guidelines for Fedora projects.

Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo)

Fedora technical management is organized by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo).

• FESCo Members | FESCo's current schedule | Summaries from the past FESCo meetings
• Ideas Container to collect long term ideas (feel free to add things here!)