amending the new package process

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 15:08 +0100, Mathieu Bridon wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 14:49 +0100, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > Unfortunately review swaps don't work for new packagers, before they are
> > sponsored. They are encouraged to do informal reviews, but those reviews
> > don't carry formal weight. I propose to change this, and allow non-sponsored
> > packagers to do formal reviews, except that an actual packager with review
> > rights has to ack the review.
> This is exactly what informal reviews are.

As far as I understand the current informal reviews require even more
people to be involved than the formal reviews. They can be hardly a
solution to the problem of not having enough reviewers.

regards,
Nikos