On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:00:06 +0300, Pavel Shevchuk wrote: > You can have fedora account and not be sponsored (for example if > you're doc writer or artist). "Sponsored" should be read as "knows how > to package stuff" No, let's not change the meaning of "sponsored". It really only means that another contributor (with sponsor status) agreed on opening the door for somebody else to get access to relevant Fedora infrastructure in order to be able to get productive (to what level the sponsor must monitor the sponsored person is unknown -- I know that some sponsors do it while others don't). The decision to sponsor somebody may be based on prior demonstration of packaging skills, but could also be based on a trust relationship, "knowing eachother", being involved upstream, or the energy/momentum of a motivated contributor, who wants to become a Fedora packager. "Sponsored" does not necessarily mean "knows how to package stuff". That's not well-defined anyway. For example, it's too easy for someone to fetch an existing spec file from the web, customise it a little bit and use it for a Fedora Review request and a call for sponsorship. It's not that if one or two packages pass review, after your reviewer told you 20 things to fix, you "know how to package stuff". It's just that if you show that you're willing to maintain your package(s) with or without the help of other people, you increase the chance of finding a sponsor. We've found long ago that it would be too much of a hurdle, if every potential contributor had to demonstrate packaging skills through a long review process of several *new* packages. The more packages in the collection, the less likely you find stuff that's not packaged yet. Therefore, and provided that you find a sponsor actually, demonstrating packaging capabilities is not the only way how to get sponsored. -- Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) - Linux 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 loadavg: 1.17 1.12 1.04 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
