question for board members

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 10:42:14 -0800,
  Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu> wrote:
> > I think that's OK.  We shouldn't be afraid to dump packages from the
> > distro when the maintainer goes away.  If someone really wants them,
> > someone will step up to contribute them.
> 
> 
> Did we ever develop a probational maintainership path that would make
> it easier for people who cared about orphaned packages to help with
> the workload as a means to show right-action and and packaging
> knowledge so they can gain full sponsorship?

I think a few people have gotten approval to be comaintainers as their
entry to packaging, but I haven't followed those cases closely.