On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:05:37AM -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > 2011/11/22 Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx>: > > One area where we could probably do more advertising for is getting new > > packagers via the co-maintainer route. I think most of the new packagers > > still come in by packaging a new package. I think we really want most of > > the new packagers coming in as co-maintainers. > > Yes, this seems to be an chicken-or-the-egg issue. There seems to be > permanent resource shortages with package maintenance which means we > need more contributors, and then at the same time there are hundreds > of package reviews languishing, many of which need sponsors. > > I don't want to get too far off topic but being short handed is > directly related... > > Does the sponsor processes need to be more formalized? Currently you > must be nominated (either by someone or yourself) but there's no > concrete requirements on a knowledge or skill level required to be a > sponsor. > > To bring it to a more personal level, I have no idea if I've done or > proven myself enough to become a sponsor or not. If I am deficient in > an area, there's currently no formal feedback mechanism for me to know > in what areas I need to improve. What helped me was first to find someone I wanted to sponsor. I would like to sponsor someone else, but looking through the review tickets I hardly find any potential new contributor that performed informal reviews as stated in the wiki. Or at least there was not trace of the informal reviews in the review ticket. Back to the question: I guess the main skill needed is to be able to monitor the sponsoree's activities and to identify bad behaviour. Regards Till -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
