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Other useful links for Package Maintainers:

For Users

• Available Packages:
  • Fedora 10: Everything
  • Fedora 9: Everything
  • Fedora 8: Everything

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
• Package Naming Guidelines
• Dist Tag Guidelines
• Package Review Guidelines
• 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
• Maximum RPM Book - most detailed, but slightly obsolete
• RPM Guide
• Building Packages Guide Work through these examples. You'll learn a lot.

Resources for Fedora Package Collection contributors

• Vacation Notice - Add a vacation note if you are going to be unavailable for a few days.

Admin Requests / Tracking

Repository and CVS status pages for requesting manual copies and removals of packages:

• RPM Repository Admin requests

Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo)

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

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