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 a community of contributors and committers. All interested community members are encouraged to contribute to the project. 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 committer. 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.
Committers share the following rights:
Committers share the following responsibilities:
The following is an alphabetized list of the current Fedora committers:
Name | Organization | Code Signing Key | |
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Danny Bernstein | Lyrasis | dabylon at gmail dot com | 269300773A49107D76EDC70E00D5BE9EE9875DD8 |
Yinlin Chen | Virginia Tech | ylchen at vt dot edu | BFCEC97F4675DBADB4AE1CA291D66127C1AB199F |
Peter Eichman | University of Maryland | peichman at umd dot edu | 40A453E9591C5F4DB4C95A6EE204FDB291FAE80E |
Dan Field | Lyhrasis | dan dot field at lyrasis dot org | 047EA4E7E1D2D6315CB8FA7228F4118DD5000A29 |
Demian Katz | Villanova University | demian dot katz at villanova dot edu | F087AE5992B1499D92E54FBC287F48B9B9EA510B |
Ben Pennell | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | ben.pennell at gmail dot com | 83E019253092998DC81560D580E93F47900E1172 |
Bethany Seeger | JHU (formerly) | CB746AA46F366F64177A09F348637918DCF9E7FB | |
Jared Whiklo | University of Manitoba | jwhiklo at gmail dot com | 9F45FC2BE09F4D70DA0C7A5CA51C36E8D4F78790 |
Peter Winckles | University of Wisconsin, Madison | peter dot winckles at wisc dot edu | 8685BDB5D7BD8504E684B824D25BF3195C5A729E |
Andrew Woods | Harvard University Libraries | awoods at duraspace dot org | 7BCE77FB75D06477C7A1D6EF04BE1CAB70B358DF |
The Fedora project depends on the engagement and contributions of community stakeholders. As noted above, contributions can take the form of:
Documentors contribute by reviewing, correcting, updating, and enhancing the project documentation found on this wiki targeting users and administrators of Fedora.
Testers contribute by performing and reporting on the outcomes of a wide range of tests, including performance, security, stress, regression, etc. on an on-going as well as release-time basis.
Developers contribute by writing functional and test code that fixes, hardens, and extends the Fedora codebase.
Name | Organization |
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Ben Armintor | Columbia University |
Chris Beer | Stanford University |
Aaron Coburn | Amherst College |
Adam Soroka | Smithsonian Institute |
Nick Ruest | York University |
Mike Durbin | University of Virginia |
Esmé Cowles | Princeton University |
This is a list of all known general contributors to post-Fedora 3 software. These people have contributed to at least one version of Fedora (as of Fedora 4.7.1)
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