Re: New contributor - hello, and looking for sponsorship!

Hi! On 24.10.2008 21:38, Mario Chacon wrote: First of all welcome to the rpmfusion community / project! Sure, we can and will help, but most of us are quite busy and I'm not sure what you exactly expect from us. Afaics most contributors became package maintainers by simply "doing it" -- e.g. reading some articles/guides/howtos/books on RPM packaging (¹) and then start to package something. When they were ready they put the package up for review and that's the point where you get help, as the reviewer will tell you want needs to be improved (hence you learn from the reviewers experience). (¹) You can find alot of help and how things work in the Fedoraproject wiki; especially here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines RPM Fusion round about works just like Fedora and follows the Fedora packaging guidelines with some very small exceptions (e.g. Licensing) That's likely not a good choice as it's likely complicate to package (especially as it involved kernel-modules). Also note that there are VirtualBox packages for Fedora floating around on the net; one of them are iirc from Xavier Lamien (CCed; he is a RPM Fusion contributer already), who wanted to put them up for review. Maybe you can help him with it (especially with testing and getting the packages in shape to make them "just work) and in parallel you might want to look around for other software to package for Fedora and/or RPM Fusion. CU knurd