Packager = Programmer?

[Bryan Kearney]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 06/04/2009 01:13 PM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3d) wrote:
>> Does trying to become a packager.
>> Involve being currently a Developer,
>> as in Programming skills\certification,
>> whether Perl\Python\c++ etc.
> 
> Not necessarily. It's useful to understand the codebase but if you have
> a active upstream responsive to bug reports, you can just take care of
> the packaging aspects of it. You can always ask for help from others
> within Fedora or upstream if needed.
> 
> Rahul
> 
I would content you need an ability to understand scripting languages 
(as spec files are really a DSL/scripting language) and an understanding 
of skills commonly associated with a developer:

- Source Code Control
- Source Layout
- Software Component Types (e.g. scripts, libraries, documents, etc).

however, as Rahul said, the ability to crank out the latest 
oCaml/Erlang/Java/C/Assembler/NameYourPoison is not required.

-- bk