rssh (need a sponsor and package from database)

[Björn Persson]

Alexander Aristotle Davis wrote:
> I would like to be the maintainer for the rssh for Fedora. I am
> sending this e-mail to seek guidance and also a sponsor. Getting rssh
> on Fedora i will need to fix the security.

Hi Alex!

I think you need a plan for how you will convince potential sponsors 
that you understand the packaging guidelines and can do a good job of 
maintaining a Fedora package. The usual ways of doing that are to make 
new packages of good quality and submit them for review, and to do 
informal reviews of others' packages. (You're not allowed to do formal 
reviews before you're sponsored, but you can always comment on review 
requests.) Those are just the usual ways though. Any way that works is 
good.

One thing that I would want to see if I were a sponsor would be an RSSH 
package where all known security bugs are fixed, not as a new package but 
as a fixed version of the old package.

If the current upstream maintainer doesn't want to continue maintaining 
RSSH, then a good way of showing that you're serious about keeping it 
alive would be to take over upstream maintenance. You might want to 
coordinate that with package maintainers in other distributions.

Björn Persson