[Fedora-spins] Co-maintaining a spin (was: Re: proposing French Fedora Spin)

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Sonntag, den 22.01.2012, 21:19 +0100 schrieb Casper:
>  Christoph Wickert a écrit :
>  > I don't think that Casper wanted to have this as a spin for download but
>  > included in the l18n-kickstarts package.
>  Yeah that is exactly I would like. 
Ok, works for me.

>  > I don't see anything wrong with
>  > this as long as we have somebody to maintain and test these spins.
>  > 
>  > Casper, are you willing to do this? And are you a Fedora contributor
>  > already? If so, I could sponsor you and you can commit the files to git.
>  I've been sponsored as new packager only. So I need a sponsor :) 
OK, I will sponsor you into spin-kickstarts git, but I wonder if we have
a workflow for this.

IHMO we should try to lower the barrier compared to the normal spins.
This means:
      * No full spins process but only a quick review by the spins
        wrangler or the SIG.
      * New contributors to spin-kickstarts must confirm they understand
        the spins guidelines.
      * New contributors must be willing to maintain and test their
        spins.
      * New contributors need to be sponsored.

Basically what I have in mind is very similar to the co-maintainer
policy where you just need to find a sponsor who trusts you. However two
questions come to my mind:
     1. Should require contributors to be packagers, too?
     2. Should these "co-maintainers" be allowed to maintain official
        spins or only localized ones? 

IHMO for official spins that end up in spins-kickstart we should require
a full membership, this means the contributors need to do the spins
process for their spins once. But what do we do about co-maintainers for
existing spins then? As all spins are supposed to be be reviewed for
every release, we could require the new contributors to take part in
this process.

Comments? Ideas?

Regards,
Christoph