RPM submission procedure

[Eric S. Raymond]

Richard June <rjune at bravegnuworld.com>:
> On Wednesday 07 January 2004 10:23, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > Is the actual current procedure for submitting an RPM to the
> > Fedora depository documented anywhere?
> 
> Here's a start.
> 
> http://www.fedora.us/wiki/PackageSubmissionQAPolicy

I knew about this; it's part of the reason I asked the question.
What's there is both out of date and inadequate.

When I told Mike Johnson that I wanted to streamline the process by
making it easy to submit RPMs via a script, he said I was aiming at
the wrong target because that's the old (fedora.us) procedure, not the
new one.  And I know that document is out of date in at least one
respect; the "epoch number" is dead.

Once again, I run 37 projects which I would like to make available in the
Fedora repository.  I'm trying to develop a way I can ship RPMS, or 
equivalent metadata from which the Fedora project can build RPMs, 
automatically every time I do a point release.

What do I have to do?  And why isn't this documented clearly and completely?
Don't you want the repository to be well populated?
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>