On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think that's OK. We shouldn't be afraid to dump packages from the > distro when the maintainer goes away. If someone really wants them, > someone will step up to contribute them. Did we ever develop a probational maintainership path that would make it easier for people who cared about orphaned packages to help with the workload as a means to show right-action and and packaging knowledge so they can gain full sponsorship? Our sponsorship process is very focused on new package submission. I'd really like an opportunity to work with a new contributor on existing packages they care about so they could be given the ability to do the work in our cvs and our bugzilla..but I stand up as accountable for tagged builds for that package. Give them 6 months or so working through me to prove to a sponsor review that they know what they are doing..but let them do the work and make mistakes but in a way that other people are confident won't impact users because I'm trusted to review their work before releasing it into publicly consumable trees. -jef -jef _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
