On 12/12/16 13:38, Vít Ondruch wrote:

Hi Sylvia,

Just wondering, what were the places you were looking at to find the information how to start maintaining package in Fedora. Or what is the reason you want to package something into Fedora.

I am asking, since there are various ongoing activities to make the process easier to newcomers [1], but unfortunately, they are not always successful. So would it be for example helpful, if gnome-software shown some link with help how to package the missing software, e.g.

1) Open Gnome Software

2) Sear for "myfavoriteapp"

3) The link [2] is provided instead of "Application was not found" message.

Would this help or just make you confused? Would the similar approach for Fedora packages [3] helped? Is there some other place you were looking at which long time Fedora package does not visit, but newcomer does?


Vít



[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Join_SIG

[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers

[3] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages




Hello!

To be honest I looked at wikis and so, but I'm still rather confused, I don't know really where or how to start. Why do I want to start packaging?  Well, I want to keep contributing to Fedora but more into development. As I know programming languages but I'm not too experienced I think starting with packaging and/or maintaining something small will fit better my skills.
Your approach  (offering a link in Gnome Software when a program is missing) would be great, I think.

Cheers,
Sylvia