> On Jul 28, 2014, at 16:18, Derek Pressnall <dere...@needcaffeine.net> wrote:
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> I have a question about contributing a package to Fedora.  Is it common for 
> the author of an open source package to act as package maintainer?  Or is it 
> better to have someone else be the package maintainer (who is more 
> experienced with the Fedora build processes)?  I'm the author of a backup 
> utility which fills a niche between tools based on rsync, and the 
> heavy-weight full featured backup tools, which I think would be a good fit 
> for a typical Fedora user.  I already

Why? Rsnapshot and AMANDA are already available, stable, and quite robust. They 
seem to cover just the niches you're aiming at, and the performance and 
security ramifications have already been worked out. Plus, neither requires an 
SQL database, which makes them much more robust.

It's nothing personal or criticizing your code. I just wind up cleaning up 
after a lot of projects that reinvent the wheel. Backup systems are a popular 
such target.

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