Sponsors - who does (not) work on FE-NEEDSPONSOR tickets

[Haïkel]

2015-08-16 10:33 GMT-04:00 Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com>:
> On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 10:02:05 -0400
> Haïkel <hguemar at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> ...snip...
>
>> Using Bugzilla rather than FAS is not a bad idea, as some people
>> abuse their sponsor status by blindly adding people into the packager
>> group without any supervision. Using FAS as the information source
>> would just hide this hideous behaviour.
>
> Well, sponsors are allowed to sponsor people, it's not abuse.
>
> If they don't properly mentor those packagers after that it's another
> matter, but thats much harder to tell from any kind of automated
> report.
>
> kevin
>

+2
Automated reports has little value by themselves, there are a lot of things
that can't be measured like the amount of time spent on explaining/teaching
packaging or guidelines on irc/mail.

About the problem I was mentioning, I did some investigation and even
contacted the sponsors and mentees.
But naming people on a public list would just pour oil over fire.

Rather than shaming the "inactive" sponsors that do no harm, we should
rather fix the lack of mentoring of our new packagers.
Some people forget that you don't need to be a sponsor to mentor new packager.

Regards,
H.

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