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> If I wanted to start being a contributor to a distribution, which one would be the best to dive in to? I tried to contribute a package to Fedora once upon a
by UncleEntity 8y ago
> If I wanted to start being a contributor to a distribution, which one would be the best to dive in to?
I tried to contribute a package to Fedora once upon a time...gave up in frustration after a while since it went nowhere after a bit of hoop jumping.
- Conan_Kudo 8y agoI'm sorry you felt that way. All I can say is that we've done a lot of work in recent years to drastically improve the quality of life for new contributors, especially packagers! The process is pretty well documented here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_m... If you have issues, feel free to hop into any of the Fedora communication channels[1][2][3][4][5] and ask for help. [1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicating_and_getting_help https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicating_and_getting_hel... [2]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Telegram https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Telegram [3]: https://discord.gg/fedora https://discord.gg/fedora (Yes, Discord!) [4]: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/ https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/ [5]: https://fedoraforum.org/ https://fedoraforum.org/ (Unofficial, but a strong, helpful group!)