On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:57:05PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
You've misunderstood my question. With the current process, sponsors
need not demonstrate anything beyond technical skills (= packaging
skills in form of a couple of package reviews).
I don't think so. The process of sponsor selection is mostly ad-hoc.
It is FESCo choice, in the end, and technical skill doesn't have to
be the sole motivation of FESCo:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_sponsor_a_new_contributor#Becoming_a...
Quoting:
When someone within the project has developed a "good reputation"
(and this is admittedly a somewhat fuzzy definition!) then someone
else will generally nominate them for sponsor status.
....
A discussion and vote will then occur during the next Fedora
Engineering Steering Committee meeting.
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Pat