Re: Auto-assign packager sponsors to tickets?

Miroslav Suchý <msuchy@xxxxxxxxxx> · Sun, 2 Apr 2023 16:11:51 +0200



    Dne 02. 04. 23 v 11:54 Vitaly Zaitsev
      via devel napsal(a):

    
    I'm
      always willing to review and sponsor new maintainers, but they
      need to show explicit consent by posting on IRC/Matrix/ML or
      direct email.
    
    Let me check the history of
     
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/How_to_Get_Sponsored_into_the_Packager_Group/#how_to_find_a_sponsor
    Right now we tell users to:
    
      
Usually, a sponsor finds you through your
        sponsorship request in Bugzilla
        or the packager sponsors pagure instance.
        In case you are waiting to be sponsored for longer than
        desirable,
        take a look at Sponsors page.
        It will help you find the right sponsor for you
        based on programming language preference, domains of interest,
        native language, and other criteria.
      This is not there for long time. Actually since 2021 when Jakub
      wrote that "Sponsor page". Previously there was:
    
      
If you are
            submitting a new package for review in Bugzilla,
          

          you can
            make the review request block the
          

          https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=FE-NEEDSPONSOR[FE-NEEDSPONSOR]
            tracking bug.
          

          Otherwise,
            you can file a ticket in the
          

          https://pagure.io/packager-sponsors/[sponsors
            ticketing system].

        
    So previously - and even now - we tell newcomers to to block
      FE-NEEDSPONSOR and wait. And only if they wait too long (whatever
      it means) to start looking for sponsors directly.
    I personally think that Jakub's proposal is great and I welcome
      it. Not everyone is brave to initiate a conversation and asks for
      being sponsored. We have to realize it often means that junior
      developer has to reach senior developer and juniors often hesitate
      to do this step. This proposal remove one road blocks for juniors.
    If other people does not find it useful, then I propose to at
      least alter our documentation and tell users to start looking for
      sponsor immediately after blocking FE-NEEDSPONSOR.
    Miroslav

    
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