On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote:
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Dan Burkland
<dburklan(a)nmdp.org> wrote:
> Hey All,
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> 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.
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> Thank you,
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> 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?
-Mike