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Fedora Packages are maintained collectively by a community of both Red Hat members and volunteers.
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{{admon/note|'Extras' redirects to this page.|Since Fedora 7, '''there no longer are separate Core and Extras repositories'''. Packages are maintained by both Red Hat employees and community volunteers in the '''same''' repository.}}


== Contributing roles ==
[[Category:Fedora sub-projects]]
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==Other useful links for Package Maintainers==
 
===For Users===
* Available Packages:
Fedora 12: [http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packages?tagID=105 Everything] | Fedora 11: [http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packages?tagID=87 Everything] | Fedora 10: [http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packages?tagID=64 Everything]
 
=== Get Involved ===
 
* [[PackageMaintainers/Join|How to Join the package collection maintainers]]
* [[Package_Review_Process|Package Review Process]] - describes the formal review process (for both contributors and reviewers)
* [[:Category:Packaging_SIGs| Packaging SIGs]] - Informal groups of packagers working on specific areas of the distribution
* [[EPEL|  EPEL]]  - Rebuild of Fedora packages for RHEL or compatible derivatives
 
=== Packaging Committee===
 
The [[Packaging:Committee| Packaging Committee]]  handles the rules and [[:Category:Packaging guidelines|guidelines for packaging]] software in Fedora. The most important ones:
 
[[Packaging:Guidelines| Packaging Guidelines]] |  [[Packaging:NamingGuidelines| Package Naming Guidelines]] |  [[Packaging:DistTag| Dist Tag Guidelines]] |  [[Packaging:ReviewGuidelines| Package Review Guidelines]] | [[Packaging:ScriptletSnippets| Recipes for RPM post scripts]]
 
==== Further reading ====
 
* [[How to create an RPM package]] - start here if you don't know how to create an RPM package
* [http://rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/ Maximum RPM Book] - most detailed, but slightly obsolete
* [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/A_Short_RPM_Tutorial A short tutorial] for those of us with shorter attention span, preferring ''less'' detail
* [http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ RPM Guide]
* [[Docs/Drafts/BuildingPackagesGuide | Building Packages Guide]] Work through these examples.  You'll learn a lot.
 
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=== Resources for Fedora Package Collection contributors ===
 
* [[SIGs|  SIGs]]  - Fedora Special Interest Groups
* [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/describecomponents.cgi?product=Fedora Fedora package components in bugzilla]
* [https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/index koji - Fedora Package Build System]
* [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb Fedora Package Database]
* [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates bodhi - Fedora Package Update System]
* [[ReleaseEngineering| RPM Repository Admin requests]] - Repository and CVS status pages for requesting manual copies and removals of packages
* [[Vacation|  Vacation Notice]]  - Add a vacation note if you are going to be unavailable for a few days.
* [[Test Machine Resources For Package Maintainers | Test Machines]] - Contributed servers for test, mock build, compile or debug packages before submitting to koji
 
=== Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) ===
 
Fedora technical management is organized by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo).
 
* [[Development/SteeringCommittee| FESCo Members]] | [[Development/Schedule| FESCo's current schedule]] | [[Development/SteeringCommittee/Meetings| Summaries from the past FESCo meetings]]
* [[Development/Schedule/IdeasContainer| Ideas Container to collect long term ideas]]  (feel free to add things here!)
 
[[Category:Packaging]]

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