>>>>> Jakub Kadlčík <jkadlcik@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Currently, we have 31 people waiting to be sponsored > https://fedoraproject.org/PackageReviewStatus/needsponsor.html many of > them waiting for months. To get to the point of waiting to be > sponsored, all of these people invested their time to learn the basics > of RPM packaging and went through the tedious process of a package > review without quitting. It's not very nice of us to let them wait for > an indefinite amount of time without a reply after all of this. I want state up front that I'm not a fan of this proposal, but I also want to address what appears to me to be some misconception about the process. To wit: A sponsor doesn't have to do the package review, even of tickets marked as NEEDSPONSOR. That is just a flag in case sponsors go specifically looking for people to sponsor. If a package makes it through review but can't be imported because the prospective maintainer isn't in the packager group, they should file a ticket with the sponsors (https://pagure.io/packager-sponsors/) and they will be taken care of. I'm not aware of anyone in that state ever needing to wait very long before being sponsored. There are sponsors who are willing to help with that part of things but who aren't able to spend the time on package reviews. So, really, the issue here is that the reviews in question aren't being processed, not that sponsors aren't sponsoring. Since any packager can do those reviews, it seems that the proposal should instead be to assign open package reviews to packagers, and I suspect that would not be received particularly well for mostly the same reasons that sponsors would object to the current proposal. The bottom line is that package reviews can be quite time consuming. I don't think the issue is with sponsorship itself. - J< _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
