Patrice Dumas wrote:
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 09:36:01AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Jon Stanley wrote:
>> At the FESCo meeting that took place on 3/6/2009, it was decided that
>> on Monday, 3/9/2009, the 'provenpackager' group would be emptied and
>> repopulated with only sponsors in the 'packager' group, who would be
>> given user status in the provenpackager group.
> Is there some definition of what a "provenpackager role" is supposed to
> mean and how it is different from a "sponsor role"?
provenpackagers are people who can change all the packages with
opened ACLs. Sponsors are the people who can accept new contributors in
fedora.
<devil's advocate>
Well, with this definition, "provenpackager" is an acknowledgment of
"technical skills", while "sponsors" is a "social/political
role".
It also doesn't have any connection to the role "sponsors" once used to
have: To guide and educate new-comer packagers.
<devil's advocate>
Ralf