On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 16:31 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > We have a > > standing item in the meeting to discuss and vote on sponsors. We > > literally have not received any nominations in quite a while. > > Here is the difference between "I have a open ear for your problems; > just come and tell me about it" vs. "I'm looking after you all the time > and think I noticed you have some problems; should we try to solve them > together" again I mentioned in a mail to this list yesterday. > > In the Extras days (at least those when I run the meetings) we > *actively* looked out for new sponsors all the time: Because we had relatively few, and it was a problem. I've not heard of, or seen in my looking, any issues with too few sponsors. > * we each meeting asked for new sponsor nominations (self-nominations > or nominations from other people) and thus everyone had to think about > it for a moment We still did this after Extras. It was largely a waste of time because we have so few nominations these days. > * in the agenda we send out to the list there was the point "sponsor > (self-)nominations" quite often (not often enough) -- that way everyone > on the list got a reminder that they can nominate/self-nominate That can be added back if people think there's value in it. > * new sponsor-nominations were not a FESCO-only thing; we tried to > integrate the existing sponsors into the discussions and decisions, as > they are in the best position for it (¹) When people actually nominate themselves or get nominated in some other fashion, this still happens. At least as far as I know. > FESCO doesn't do any of the above properly these days IMHO. Especially > the first two points are IMHO important and made sure people always got > reminded that they could self-nominate or nominate other people. Most of > the time in fact in were no self-nomination -- often people got > nominated by existing sponsors. There is nothing, NOTHING, preventing that from happening today. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
