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When Sally Met Eddie: The Fedora Package Story

“There are lots of ways that software gets included in Fedora
releases. Because Fedora is a community-powered Linux distribution,
the most common (and likely the easiest) method is when a community
member packages and ‘owns’ the task of building it for Fedora. This
story follows that process.

“Sally is a Fedora user. She’s been using Fedora for a number of
releases and really enjoys the project. However, she’s unhappy with
the offered text editors and has been in search of something
better. She was introduced to Eddie by a mutual friend in a
community forum. You see, Eddie is a text editor, and many feel
he’s a rather good one. Sally decides to give Eddie a
chance…”


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