Proposal for revitalizing the sponsorship process for packaging

[Matthias Runge]

On 26/04/12 16:32, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>
>> That's not really within the scope of the document. I haven't proposed
>> lowering the standards for reviewing packages.
>
> I think there is quiet a group of experienced packagers, who do not
> consider themselves provenpackers, but who would like to help out and
> sponsor people. I know I'm one of those.
>
> Especially with fedora-review as a base for the mundane work, it should
> be a relatively easy (and fun!) task to bring on more people.
>
exactly, I fully agree. I think, we should lower the barrier to become a 
sponsor, maybe dropping the necessity to become a proven packager first. 
In many cases that is really not needed; a sponsor could/should  become 
co-maintainer of the first packages of a new packager.
> Using a co-maintainer status between packager and sponsor seems a good
> idea to me. It would help in cases where new packagers vanish.
>
> Paul
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