intro. and help offer

[Dennis Gilmore]

Once upon a time Tuesday 13 March 2007, Jerry Amundson wrote:
> Per AccountSystem, this account I just created, "currently includes
> the various CVS repositories and Bugzilla."
> It didn't. I created a Bugzilla account using the *e-mail address* of
> my account system registration. That may not have been the right
> thing...
>
> On 3/13/07, Jerry Amundson <jamundso at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 3/13/07, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > Jerry Amundson wrote:
> > > > bacula testing (needs to get into extras)
> > >
> > > Excellent, Would you mind helping getting bacula into extras -
> > > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/230344
>
> So this needs to be assigned to me then? (unless there was some
> original problem with the account, above, and I should be able to do
> so myself...)
>
> Procedural things...
> 1. Andreas Thienemann, who opened said bug, seemed well into this
> already - was this lucrative position offered to Andreas first? ;-)
Every package included in Fedora must be peer reviewed.  So what you need to 
do is follow the procedure 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ReviewGuidelines 

> 2. Upstream is actively releasing a src.rpm - is there any criteria
> whereby upstream's is used... hmm, I guess first requirement is
> ability to "rpmbuild --rebuild", which this doesn't... I'll shut up
> and start working now. :-)
all packages must meet Fedora's guidelines.  upstreams does not even come 
close.

Dennis