Category:Package Maintainers

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

Get Involved

 * 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 Committee
The Packaging Committee  handles the rules and guidelines for packaging 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

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 CVS 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

 * is a low traffic, announcements only, list, where important development information is posted.
 * is a high traffic mailing list, where discussions about the development of Fedora are held.
 * 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.
 * 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!)