On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 02:08:36PM -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > packager group. We want to encourage more sponsors to take on people that are > not yet good packagers but have the potential to grow into good packagers with > a little mentoring. > > Updated policy drafts are here: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_sponsor_responsibilities%28draft%29 It is not clear to me how the changes in the draft policies address this issue. More precisely, I agree that, in the current policy, 'Make sure the maintainers you sponsor follow guidelines' and ' Fix issues caused by sponsored maintainers ' 'Help answer maintainers' questions' are redundant. So it is a good thing to merge them. But I don't think that 'Make sure the maintainers you sponsor follow guidelines' put more pressure on the maintainer than what is in the draft in ' Fix issues in sponsored maintainers' packages ' (although explicitly saying that solving an issue may be finding other sources of information is good). Moreover, I think that in the draft some aspects of sponsoree help have been removed (they were in 'Make sure the maintainers you sponsor follow guidelines' and weren't put in another section), I think that they should be readded. More precisely, I think that 'sponsors should guide the sponsored maintainer to do the best choices in packaging and reviewing, and to follow the guidelines.' should be readded in ' Help answer maintainers questions '. Also the information on how to watch the sponsoree in bugzilla should be kept, in my opinion, but put in a specific section and explicitly marked as optionnal. I can implement the changes that are agreed. -- Pat -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
