David Nalley’s Blog

Back in 2006, one of my first demonstrable pieces of work for Fedora was writing a magazine article for the now defunct “International Developer” magazine at the behest of then-FPL Max Spevack. One of the things I touted in that article was how work done in Fedora influenced the next RHEL. It’s been a long time since I’ve even thought about that magazine article. Recently, however, I received an email from David Malcolm about one of the packages I maintain in Fedora and EPEL by the name of pywbem. He said that Red Hat was going to be including pywbem in RHEL 6 and that he was going to use my spec file to do so. While I realize that pywbem is a relatively small python library, bordering on insignificant and dmalcolm could have probably created a better spec file sans my involvement, it thrills me to no end to be able to have some personal evidence to show that Fedora is not only the upstream, but that volunteers can have their work effect subsequent RHEL versions.