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

[Miroslav Suchý]

Dne 20.8.2015 v 13:42 Michael Schwendt napsal(a):
> Your script output does not tell anything at all about activity of all
> packagers in the package collection, in the normal review queue(s), in
> pkgdb. No clues about number of orphaned/retired packages. No clues about
> semi-dead packages where the packager is absent for a long time, and the
> package only gets rebuilt during mass-rebuilds or receives random rebuilds
> by other people.

This is completely different sets of problems.

> How many new packagers manage to include a single package in the collection,
> but lose interest in maintainership afterwards? How many fellow packagers
> lose interest in Fedora in general and switch to another distribution?

Again. Completely different sets of problems.
I am trying to focus on "How to find sponsor for new contributor in reasonable time".

> More interesting would be a discussion about which various fields of interest
> the current sponsors cover. Ruby? MinGW? OLPC XS? Mono? Fonts? Scientific/Maths
> related school/research projects software? To mention a few fields only.

This is actually good idea.

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Miroslav Suchy, RHCA
Red Hat, Senior Software Engineer, #brno, #devexp, #fedora-buildsys