Voting for packages waiting on FE-NEEDSPONSOR state

[Alek Paunov]

On 20.03.2012 20:30, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 03:12:37 +0200
> Alek Paunov<alex at declera.com>  wrote:
>
>> Which is the proper way to vote and describe potential benefits of a
>> new package, with candidate maintainer who needs sponsorship.
>
> Voting for what?

For the package. As a Fedora user (not a packager at the time being) I 
would be happy to see number of projects (whose upstream development I 
closely follow) as a Fedora packages, but don't know how/where to 
express this and how to share my humble points about the potential 
benefits to the Distribution if we have them.

>
> Maintainers that need sponsorship have to use one of the methods on:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_get_sponsored_into_the_packager_group
>
> Basically you need to convince a sponsor that you are trustworthy and
> ready to be sponsored.

What happens when the candidate maintainer has done the packaging task 
fairly well ([1] as instance), but obviously is not active enough in the 
sponsor seeking? Which is the mechanism to "unstuck" the important 
packages from this state?

Thank you again,
Alek

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=718681