Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:48:18 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > >>> If I'm not mistaken the proper way to find people needing sponsors is to >>> look at the FE-NEEDSPONSOR tracker bug: >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=177841 >> Yes, I would agree there. In fact, the Contributors page only tells >> people to get a Fedora Account after their package has been approved. >> >> The Contributors page also tells the submitter to mention that they need >> sponsoring, but doesn't mention adding the FE-NEEDSPONSOR tracker bug, >> so some submitters won't have done this. > > This procedure has not been made official. The FE-NEEDSPONSOR tracker is > experimental and optional as I understand it. Better is really if new > contributors post to fedora-extras-list, introducing their package review > requests. > I have no problem with this, I actually believe the old post an introduction mail to the list stating interest etc was a good idea, but this is not what is currently advertised in the wiki. As things stand the procedure advertised to new contributers and those to sponsors differ, and in my 6 hours being a sponsor experience FE-NEEDSPONSOR actually helps me to find people who need a sponsor whereas the currently advertised procedure does not. Regards, Hans -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
