The Fedora Repository software is open source and released under an Apache License, Version 2.0. The software and associated documentation is developed collectively by the a community of contributors and committers. All interested community members are encouraged to contribute software updates to the codebaseproject. Contributors who demonstrate sustained engagement with the project through quality participation in meetings, mailing lists, documentation and code updates can be nominated by existing committers to also become a committercommitters. It should be emphasized that committers need not be limited to software developers. Community members with skills in documentation and testing, for example, can also be committers.
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- Write access to the codebase
- Nomination privileges of new committers
- Release management privileges
- Binding votes on procedural and , code modification, and release issues
- Access to the private committers mailing list
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- Ability to deploy and configure Fedora
- Ability to document and communicate results
- Bonus:Â Familiarity Familiarity with testing frameworks, such as Grinder, JMeter, etcAbility to document and communicate results
Developer
Developers contribute by writing functional and testing test code that fixes, hardens, and extends the Fedora codebase.
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- Experience with software development practices (the codebase is primarily Java, but many of the project's contributors do not come with a Java background)
- Experience reading and tracing multi-module codebases
- Experience debugging issues
- Interest in reading community standards and forming implementations around them
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