Mike McGrath píše v Čt 10. 12. 2009 v 12:06 -0600: > On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Dan Burkland <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hey All, > > > > > > > > > > > > I have been using both the EPEL & RPMForge repositories for several > > > packages, mainly for Puppet & Nagios. I have noticed that while RPMForge > > > offers version 3 of Nagios, they only offer an older version of Puppet. > > > EPEL > > > on the other hand has a newer version of Puppet however an older version > > > of > > > Nagios for EL5. While I could probably periodically add each new version > > > of > > > each package to my personal repository, I thought this would be a great > > > opportunity for me to help contribute to the community. I would like to > > > help > > > get the EL5 version of the Nagios packages as up to date as possible and > > > was > > > wondering what the possible steps for doing that would be. I have created > > > an > > > account on FAS and now lost on the next step. I would it appreciate it if > > > any of you kind folks could point me in the right direction. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > > > > > > > > > Dan Burkland > > > > > > you have 2 options > > > > 1 - join packager group in FAS and ask someone to sponsor you. > > > > or > > > > 2 - open a bug report and attach a patch in bugzilla, -> > > bugzilla.redhat.com > > > > Is there no way to become a maintainer without bringing in a new package?
Bringing new package is the usual way, but not the only one. It should be sufficient to show the knowledge of the guidelines and the processes to a trusted maintainer/sponsor. This is in compliance with https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/HowToGetSponsored Dan _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
