Proposal for revitalizing the sponsorship process for packaging

[drago01]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Matthias Runge
<mrunge at matthias-runge.de> wrote:
> On 26/04/12 00:21, Ken Dreyer wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu> wrote:
>>> My proposal is at
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tibbs/RevitalizingSponsorshipProposal
>>>
>>> I've run this by FESCo, whose response was favorable, so I'm sending
>>> this to a larger audience.  Please let me know what you think.
>>
>> Looks good to me. I was unaware that sponsors are (currently) also
>> provenpackagers. I've considered the idea of becoming a sponsor
> Yes, this is a good step ahead. I never understood, why sponsoring is
> mightier (in the view of doing harm) than proven packager. A sponsor can
> elevate packagers and approve packages, a proven packager could demolish
> all packages.

Well the idea was that a sponsor is a trusted packer so why would he
"demolish all packages"?
IMO the bar for being a provenpacker shouldn't be that high. Having
more manpower (as in people that can fix things globally) should be
something we want ....