This is the documentation for Revisor, a utility to create and customize your own Linux distribution based on Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS. This is also known as a Remix, or Re-Spin, or Re-Master. You may create anything you want with Revisor no matter what it's called though.
1. About the Contributors
Jeroen van Meeuwen (RHCE, LPIC-2, MCP, CCNA) is currently a Senior System Engineer, specialized in Linux systems and Systems Architecture, working for Operator Groep Delft in The Netherlands. His experience with computers goes back to the early '90s, with a Philips P2000T being over a decade old, little tapes containing programs but most importantly games, and 16K memory cartridges. Since 1998, he has been involved with Red Hat Linux (5.2 at that time), and was an early adopter of Fedora Core Linux in November 2003, until his first real contributions to Free and Open Source Software were made in 2005.
As a contributor to Free and Open Source Software within the Fedora community, amongst other programs, Jeroen has developed Revisor, a Python framework to build distributions with. With regards to Configuration Management, Jeroen currently maintains or co-maintains -amongst other packages- the entire stack of packages related to Puppet
Jonathan Steffan is a community volunteer based in Colorado, USA, and has a long standing record within Fedora for packaging Zope (Web Application Server), Plone (Open Source Content Management System), providing compat-python2.4 packages through Livna[] and RPMFusion[] ever since Fedora 7, and voluntarily administering the Fedora Unity servers, Zope and Plone instances, creating and further developing Revisor and pyJigdo, amongst many other things.
