Fedora Package Maintainers

Joining the Package Maintainers

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

Maximum RPM Book — most detailed, but slightly obsolete.

RPM Guide — an in-depth guide to RPM.

Using Mock to test package builds

Using the Bodhi CLI tool

Milestone freezes — how the Fedora Beta and Final freezes affect packagers

Fedora Release Life Cycle — information on the Fedora development process, particularly various freeze dates and such

SIGs — Fedora Special Interest Groups

Fedora package components in bugzilla

koji — Fedora Package Build System

bodhi — Fedora Package Update System

Vacation Calendar —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

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.

packaging is the mailing list of the Fedora Packaging Committee, who determine the official packaging guidelines for Fedora projects.

bugzilla-announce-list is where announcements about Red Hat Bugzilla are shared.