Proposal for revitalizing the sponsorship process for packaging

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 04/26/2012 12:08 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> This approach completely disregards the very common example of "I'm an
> upstream maintainer of a cool project. I want to package and maintain it
> for Fedora." Under your approach, they'd first have to become involved
> in other projects before being allowed to add their package. This is
> unacceptable and would basically guarantee that no upstream would
> willingly involve itself with Fedora.

Do you think there is anything preventing upstream from getting a VIP 
pass through that process?

JBG