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Indexing

Indexing is important to let know about the software(s) you've developed

• http://www.ohloh.net/ provides informations about the activity of your subversion repository
• http://cia.vc/ see documentation to show your developers' activities
• https://projects.tuxfamily.org verify that appropriate tags have been chosen

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Your best communication is your documentation and your code.

For packages (deb or rpm or any other),

• Provide instructions to use your repository
• Get acquainted with your distribution : we promote upstream work, see below
• Integrate and collaborate with the maintainers of packages in the same domain as yours

Upstream contributions

• Before opening yet another new repository, try to join an existing project upstream
  • Be involved in development mailing-lists (this will permit to recruit testers for your packages)
  • Join the contributers of your distribution, they will show you good practices
• Ask yourself one second "why would I open yet another repository rather than join existing teams?"
  • Have a look at http://demoll.tuxfamily.org/tags/index.php?tag=distrib and contact the projects to join their team
  • It's infuriating to observe the number of repositories opened for no rational, unmaintained afterwards, only addressing a ponctual need et visibly unsufficiently tested (giving your help to integrate your packages upstream ensures that packages orphans won't stay without maintainers too long)

Have a look at it from a user point of view :

• Who would use your packages ? (which ones BTW)
• Why would they add yet another repository to their source list ? how would they know the level of maintenance you will be providing ? (will it still exist when there are security advisories, in 3 years from now on when 6 versions went out ?)
• Why don't you work upstream with existing package maintainers ? Don't you think you would learn much more than simply on you own to be integrated in an existing team ?

The community is always happy to integrate new contributers, do not hesitate to ask for help to see your work incorporated to the official distribution !

Debian GNU/Linux

• See http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
  • documentation http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/

Mageia

• see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mgarepo
• verify existing packages at:
  • http://mageia.madb.org
  • http://sophie.zarb.org/distrib/Mageia

Mandriva Linux

• See http://cookerspot.tuxfamily.org/wikka.php?wakka=PackagingMadeSimple
  • Get known on cooker mailing-list
  • You can come on chans irc://irc.freenode.net/#mandriva-cooker ou irc://irc.freenode.net/#mandrivafr

Ubuntu Linux

• See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU , more precisely https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment#NewPackages
  • For any question, come by the chans irc://irc.freenode.net#ubuntu-fr-classroom (in French) or #ubuntu-motu (in English)

Other repositories

f-droid.org

• for Android, see http://f-droid.org
• to submit a new package http://f-droid.org/forums/forum/submission-queue/ respecting http://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Inclusion_Policy of course