Becoming a package maintainer for Fedora
Aug 19th, 2009 by diegobz
This past week I became a packager for Fedora. It’s been a long time I would like to learn how to do it and I took the new dependencies of the upcoming Transifex 0.7, as an opportunity to make it happen.
I started with packages very simple to be packaged. Actually they were more or less only small Python apps based on Django, but I guess it was a good start.
One thing that I found very good was the Fedora documentation for joining as a package maintainer. I just needed to follow the instructions there and everything went well. If you are planning to become a Fedora packager as well, that page is definitely where you should start.
FWIW, I’ve taken some packages as owner and co-owner so far: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/diegobz
Cool 
Just in case it helps anyone else: there’s an equally awesome Wiki page that explains exactly how to update your packages once they’ve been imported, but (at least for me) it wasn’t incredibly easy to find. Here it is:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/UpdatingPackageHowTo