I want to become the maintainer for the parrot packages on Fedora

Moritz Lenz mlenz at physik.uni-wuerzburg.de
Wed Feb 18 14:20:05 UTC 2009


Gerd Pokorra wrote:
> I think with Parrot 0.9.1 it is a good time to integrate Parrot in the
> Fedora linux distribution, so that Parrot can be installed under Fedora
> with:
> 
>> yum install parrot
> 
> It would be nice if this is be done bevor Parrot 1.0 is released.
> I would like to do the first steps und necessary things that parrot
> packages will be integrated in Fedora. 

Great!

> How can I get the permission to
> maintain the parrot package for Fedora from the Parrot Foundation?

You don't need to (though IANAL) - it's free software, all you do to
prepare such a package is to add a few files and perhaps a few small
matches - nothing of that needs approval.

(too all other readers: please correct me if I'm wrong here).

Cheers,
Moritz
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