Nagios Packages for EL5

[Mike McGrath]

On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Dan Burkland <dburklan at nmdp.org> wrote:
> > Hey All,
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> >
> >
> > 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