I was also in a similar position since my package couldn't get into fedora and it was the first time for me. It is not a problem though, just go through the fedora directions for package building, (you already have a spec file done?) then once you are more familiar with the process, you can begin here with a package review:
http://rpmfusion.org/Contributors I can help if you run into any problems along the way, since I went through all this before too. On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Fritz Elfert <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi guys, > > I'd like to contribute and got a little Problem: > > http://rpmfusion.org/Contributors states: > "... However if you are a newcomer (i.e. you're not a Fedora sponsored > packager) you must first get sponsored, which means find someone to > guide you while you learn the procedures." > > Well, I'm not a "Fedora sponsored packager" (and don't intend to become > one - unless that's unavoidable), so: Where do i find a RPMFusion sponsor? > > Just some info about myself: > > - - My name is Fritz Elfert. I'm from Germany, living in Ludwigsburg > (southern, near Stuttgart). I'm 53, married, 3 kids (well not *kids* > anymore, the youngest is 21 now ;) > > My tech skills: > > - - Developer (mainly C/C++) since the early days (started writing Unix > drivers on a PDP 11/34) > - - I have used RH since v5. > - - I was a kernel developer in the old kernel 2.0 times (the ISDN > subsystem is my design - just grep for "Elfert" in the kernel sources to > verify that) > - - As a contractor for IBM, was part of the team that ported Linux to > S/390. > - - Ported a complete RH6 to S/390 on my own, resulting in one of the > first S/390 distros at that time. > - - In my daytime job, I'm doing development and packaging (RPM/dpkg/other > formats) of several commercial products, on Fedora: since FC5. > - - Contributed to numerous OSS projects over the years. (KDE, XFree, > ghostscript, mars-nwe, apache, openct/opensc to name a few) > > So: > Is there anybody on this list willing to act as my "Sponsor"? > > Oh, BTW: > The reason for me trying to join RPMFusion: I'd like to provide a > rebuild of Fedora's blender package which is seriously crippled in the > regular repository (most of the codecs for rendering to various video > formats are missing there). > > Cheers > -Fritz > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iD8DBQFMykBCboM4mAMyprARAi3NAKCRxNBoxwsBUmPi1B0Q8hdYHbFuygCeIYT2 > Izyxwxdp0gyGpQEVcWkGXbo= > =mP36 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
