1. Going the open source way
Lessons from open sourcing Spacewalk
Miroslav Suchý Red Hat

2. History 2001 – RHN hosted service February 2002 – RHN Satellite
June 2008 – open source Spacewalk
September 2010 – 10 releases so far

3. Our needs Wiki – Trac at Fedorahosted Git repo – Fedorahosted
Mailing list – Red Hat mailman
Build Environment - ?

4. Build Environment Oracle dependencies Could not use Fedora Koji
Koji vs. openSUSE Build Service (OBS)
OBS allows free, but not open source packages
koji.spacewalkproject.org Since June 2010

5. Package Reviews First review Sponsors – do they track FE-NEEDSPONSOR?
Guidelines are very useful
Rejection of scriplets for upgrading from pre-Fedora era
28 packages per 2 years
i.e 1-2 package per month
57 packages still waiting

6. Releasing RPMs Dist-cvs / dist-git is pain when you are upstream
We use Tito
10-20 package release per day

7. Comunity 30 contributors from Transifex (since May 2010)
2 non-Red Hat contributors in top ten
Including 3 with direct commit access
First code contribution 2 days after opensourcing

8. Contribution

9. PostgreSQL
Everybody want it
No one want to test it (till it is ready)

10. Questions?