On Fri, 7 May 2010 10:42:14 -0800 Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Yes. Several things to note here: A sponsor can currently sponsor anyone they think is good and able to maintain things. The traditional route is new package submissions and pre-reviews, but they can use any other means they like to decide this. See https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/108 and https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/275. These are pending implementation. Basically this adds a 'any packager can commit to my package', updates the guidelines to specifically show another path to maintainership is to contact an existing maintainer, they contact a sponsor and that sponsor sponsors the new person in so they can co-maintain and be mentored by the maintainer. kevin
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