= Utilities for package maintainers

A number of utilities are available to support package maintainers in maintaining their packages.
This page attempts to list them, but is not a complete list.

== Testing new builds with pull requests and CI

See xref:Pull_Request_Guide.adoc#ci[Pull Request Guide].

== Running fedora-review on review tickets using fedora-review service

The link:https://github.com/FrostyX/fedora-review-service/[Fedora Review Service] automatically runs `fedora-review` on new package review tickets.
One can add a comment with `[fedora-review-service-build]` to re-run the review service.

== Automating package updates: Packit

link:https://packit.dev/[Packit] is a service that enables automated pull request creation for new upstream releases.
More information on configuring dist-git repositories to use Packit
can be found https://packit.dev/docs/fedora-releases-guide[in the documentation].

Please remember to run impact checks before pushing updates.

== fbrnch: an advanced packager tool

If you maintain larger package sets or want additional features/checks over fedpkg and other tools (like fedora-review),
you can install link:https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/fbrnch[fbrnch] (pronounced f-branch).
The link:https://hackage.haskell.org/package/fbrnch-1.4#readme[readme] file has an overview of its features,
but some of the main highlights are:

* automated parallel builds in dependency order in a sidetag
* easy scratch, mock builds, waitrepo, and merging for a package branch
* listing, creating and updating package reviews
* requesting new package repos and importing directly from package reviews
* updating sources and much more