[elrepo-devel] Contributions

[Phil Perry]

On 13/01/12 00:29, Nelson Marques wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a Enterprise Linux user and I do maintain a few a packages for personal
> usage (and I'm also a casual client from a few kernel modules on ELREPO).
> What would be the best way to submit a few packages?
>
> NM
>

Hi Nelson,

Welcome to elrepo.

There are a number of ways you can contribute depending upon your 
experience and how involved you wish to get:

1. You could put in an RFE request at elrepo.org/bugs and ask one of the 
existing packagers/developers to pick up the package.

2. You could develop/maintain the package yourself and contribute it via 
our github repository and have one of the developers build and sign it 
for you and push it into the repo. See here:

https://github.com/elrepo/packages/

3. Finally you could become an elrepo developer, and build/maintain the 
package yourself on the elrepo build systems, then only requiring an 
elrepo admin to sign and push the finished packages.

All of which hopefully provides enough options to suit most needs.

Please keep in mind elrepo is primarily a repository for packages that 
provide improved hardware support for RHEL. These will mostly be kernel 
driver (kmod) packages. We only provide non-kmod packages where there is 
a very specific need such as an updated lm_sensors package required to 
support some hwmon kmod drivers, or some Xorg drivers in reqular RPM 
packages. All other packages would be better maintained in other 
dedicated repositories such as rpmforge (repoforge) or EPEL.

Hope that helps.

Regards,

Phil