Proposal for revitalizing the sponsorship process for packaging

[Vít Ondruch]

There is still plenty of such packages all around the internet. I have a 
few packages I am using but haven't have the motivation to push them 
through the review and i am not even sure if they could go through, but 
I am positive that somebody would benefit from them.


Vit


Dne 27.4.2012 15:29, Aleksandar Kurtakov napsal(a):
> I have seen way too many problems caused by people installing such *nonmaintained* packages to even think this will cause more troubles than it will solve.
>
> Alex
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Vít Ondruch"<vondruch at redhat.com>
>> To: devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
>> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 3:32:33 PM
>> Subject: Re: Proposal for revitalizing the sponsorship process for packaging
>>
>> Dne 26.4.2012 18:13, Alec Leamas napsal(a):
>>> On 04/26/2012 05:49 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:32:17 +0200, AL (Alec) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> OT? The question here isn't really what submitters  do or don't,
>>>>> isn't
>>>>> it what we could do to improve the process?.
>>>> The point is that not all submitters are collaborative, and others
>>>> don't
>>>> seek for sponsors actively. In the needsponsor queue are lots of
>>>> tickets
>>>> where packages are not ready or where a reviewer is simply waiting
>>>> for
>>>> the submitter to respond. It isn't sooooo easy to find submitters
>>>> who
>>>> are willing for compromise and adapt the Fedora's requirements.
>>> People are note always nice, agreed. But isn't part of the problem
>>> that current process forces people which just are interested in a
>>> package to suddenly discover that they are applying to be
>>> packagers?
>>> Shouldn't some of these  cases be better off if they could drop
>>> "their" package in some kind of wishlist 2.0, and try to get in
>>> contact with a packager instead?
>> I am thinking about some "dumping" repository, where people would
>> dump
>> their packages and they would need almost no qualification. Of course
>> using such packages would be without any warranty. The packages would
>> not be owned by anybody, so everybody would improve them (or
>> eventually
>> corrupt them ;)). Once somebody would be interested enough to become
>> official maintainer, he would apply to official review and the
>> package
>> would get into official Fedora repo.
>>
>> Actually it shouldn't be that hard to achieve it with tiny changes to
>> current infrastructure IMO. It seems to be still better option then
>> to
>> trust to 3rd party repo or OBS.
>>
>>
>> Vit
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