Packaging for Fedora Linux is a critical community involvement. There are many ways indeed to contribute to the Fedora community and this is by far the most critical of them IMO. Fedora Linux and Platform is a constantly evolving set of packages and technologies that normally showcase some of the leading edge and new that is available to Linux users. There is a minimum capability that should be quantifiable with the use of already available resources such as fedora-review and copr as well as the ample documentation on the subject (though some is quite confusing for new comers). My proposal is to create a cloud native application that ties in the process of becoming a packager (initial steps), through use of the packaging tutorial, and the copr tutorial, using tools such as fedora-review to validate the steps are taken correctly. The new packager prospect would complete the two stages of the app to get a finalized badge that showcases their progress so far. This badge would provide the prospective packager and their potential mentor(s) an immediately recognizable confirmation they achieved a minimum level of competence that is required to become a packager. With the hope of making packaging contribution an easier process for all.
In order for this to be doable, the badges would need to be modified to provide the ability to selectively add component and effect layers (groups) to the svg template if my idea of the badge end result is to be achieved. I envision the first step of the app is to finish the packaging tutorial https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/flatpak/tutorial/ which would give the user of the app a basic badge with an anvil as the first foreground element. The second step of the app is to follow the COPR repo tutorial https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/publish-rpm-on-copr/, and the resulting badge would add another element to the foreground, a hammer and tongs on top of the anvil. Both steps would need to pass through the fedora review tool https://pagure.io/FedoraReview.