Re: Lack of response about sponsorship

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On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:19:11 -0700, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:

> Hello developers and packagers,
> 
> I recently received an email from the reporter[1] from rhbz #913289. 
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=913289>
> related to the sponsorship. The review was done. One of sponsors 
> promised to take care of that step
> which never came to fruition. 

I cannot find such a promise in the ticket.

However, activity log shows that you've assigned the ticket to yourself
on 2013-03-14 without being a sponsor. The first submitted package of
a new packager must be reviewed and approved by a sponsor. Assigning the
ticket could result in other sponsors ignoring the ticket and assuming
that somebody _is working_ on it already.

The review hasn't been too simple either so far, judging by the number of
delays and comments by _several_ people over a period of several months.

> It has been more than two months the 
> original reporter asked if there is a sponsored packager willing to take 
> over the package.

Not too good, because we need more packagers rather than fewer who try
to handle a growing number of packages.

> The way to get sponsored seemed harder because not everybody has the 
> luxury to wait on IRC channel[2]. New contributors have tendency to use 
> mail list so better clarifications are needed.

And again, the system doesn't scale if "adding packagers doesn't result
in more people doing reviews". There are submitters in the needsponsor
queue, who wait for a dozen packages without spending any time at all
on trying to review them or contributing a few reviews on similar packages
in the queue.

> [2] 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_get_sponsored_into_the_packager_group

There are various ways how to get sponsored. Using IRC is not mandatory.
Contributing a few reviews is not mandatory either. Performing a self-review
of an own package can be helpful, though. Especially if a review request
for the package has been opened several weeks/months ago. So, if a reviewer
or a sponsor runs into the review request, the package is ready and passes
essential tests, such as with rpmlint, mock, fedora-review. I don't think
that is too much of a requirement.

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