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title: SIG/Core / Release Engineering
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# SIG/Core / Release Engineering Wiki

## About

The Rocky Linux Release Engineering Team, who refers to themselves as SIG/Core, dedicates themselves to the development, building, management, production, and release of Rocky Linux for the Enterprise Linux community and the many users around the world.This group is the combination of Rocky Linux Release Engineering team which combines development and infrastructure, where members of this group are members of other Special Interest Groups within the Rocky Linux community, such as SIG/AltArch. Some members can be found in other parts of the Enterprise Linux community as a whole, such as EPEL.

## Mission

Release Engineering strives to ensure a stable distribution is developed, built, tested, and provided to the community from the RESF as a compatible derivative of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. To achieve this goal, some of the things we do are:

* Ensuring a quality and fully compatible release product
* Developing and iterating on the build systems and architecture
* Developing all code in the open
* Setting the technical direction for the build system architecture
* Release of beta and final products to the end users and mirrors
* Release of timely updates to the end users and mirrors

See the [What We Do](what_we_do.md) page for a more detailed explanation of our activities.

## Getting In Touch / Contributing

There are various ways to get in touch with Release Engineering and provide help, assistance, or even just ideas that can benefit us or the entire community.

* Chat

    * Mattermost: [~development](https://chat.rockylinux.org/rocky-linux/channels/development) on Mattermost
    * IRC: #rockylinux and #rockylinux-devel on [libera.chat](https://libera.chat)
    * Matrix: [Rocky Linux General / Support](https://matrix.to/#/#rockylinux-support:matrix.org) and [Rocky Linux Development](https://matrix.to/#/#rockylinux-development:matrix.org)

* [RESF SIG/Core Issue Tracker](https://git.resf.org/sig_core/meta/issues)
* [Mail List](https://lists.resf.org/mailman3/lists/rocky.lists.resf.org/)

For a list of our members, see the [Members](members.md) page.

## Resources and Rocky Linux Policies

* [RESF Git Service](https://git.resf.org)
* [Rocky Linux GitHub](https://github.com/rocky-linux)
* [Rocky Linux GitLab](https://git.rockylinux.org)
* [Rocky Linux Image Guide](https://wiki.rockylinux.org/rocky/image/)
* [Rocky Linux Repository Guide](https://wiki.rockylinux.org/rocky/repo/)
* [Rocky Linux Release Version Guide/Policy](https://wiki.rockylinux.org/rocky/version/)
* [Special Interest Groups](https://wiki.rockylinux.org/special_interest_groups/).

## General Packaging Resources

* [RPM Packaging Guide](https://rpm-packaging-guide.github.io/)
* [Fedora Packaging Guidelines](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/)
* [Basic Packaging Tutorial](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Packaging_Tutorial_GNU_Hello/)