'newpackager' is not in FAS, or How to co-maintain a package before getting sponsored

[Robin Lee]

On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:24:40PM +0800, Robin Lee wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III <
> tibbs at math.uh.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> >     >>>>> "RL" == Robin Lee <cheeselee at fedoraproject.org> writes:
> >
> >     RL> Hi, all I want to follow the route [1] to bring up a new
> >     RL> packager.
> >
> >     Then why not follow the procedure you referenced?  It tells you what
> to
> >     do, which involves opening a ticket in the appropriate trac instance.
> >
> >      - J<
> >
> > It is just the beginning at this moment. The candidate packager is still
> > learning RPM packaging  and below level that can be sponsored.
> >
> > I just thought that the 'newpackager' is the group for such kind of new
> > contributors. People in this group can have access to limited group of
> packages
> > and cannot own any package. But, after all, the group is not existing.
> >
> > So, that means new willing contributors can only co-maintain the package
> by
> > sending patches and filing bugs, instead of having direct commit
> privilege to
> > the Git repo?
> >
> Not at all.
>
> If you are willing to mentor the new packager, then they can be sponsored
> into the packager group.
>
> If you are not a sponsor yourself, you open a ticket in fesco's trac
> stating
> who you'd like to have sponosred and that you will be mentoring them as
> they
> comaintain which package with you.
>
> -Toshio
>
At this moment I don't approve him to be sponsored.
So at this moment, can he only send patches to me to co-maintain the
package? Can he have git commit privilege to that single package?

robin
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