&gt; Your fight is not with the language PMs, it is with your OS vendor who will neither give me upload rights nor send out someone else who does, who neither designs tools for me to use nor sends someone who already knows how to use them.<p>As far as Fedora is concerned becoming a package maintainer is a fairly straightforward process, and you are more than welcome to package up your own software and submit it to the software collection or solicit someone to assist you with it. The rpmdevtools package contains a super-useful utility called rpmdev-newspec that provides templates to create packages for most popular standards out there already (ruby gems, python setuptools&#x2F;distutils scripts, CPAN modules, etc) - it&#x27;s really easy to get started and you can always push your packages up to COPR without needing sponsorship from the existing packaging team.