Am Dienstag, den 16.05.2006, 19:45 +1200 schrieb Michael J Knox: > Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > Am Montag, den 15.05.2006, 13:14 -0500 schrieb Jason L Tibbitts III: > >>>>>>> "KF" == Kevin Fenzi <kevin-fedora-extras@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> KF> As far as I know we don't have a method to get someone > >> KF> sponsored/maintainer status without them having submitted a > >> KF> package for review. > >> > >> I don't think we have a policy, but the procedure is clear. They can > >> just sign up for an account as normal, and the sponsor (assuming > >> someone is willing to be one, of course) can upgrade the status as > >> normal. > >> > >> I think the committee should take up the idea of sponsorship for > >> package adoption without package submission. > > > > I send the following to the FESCo-List last week (it was in a similar > > context). > > > > --- > > I'll give a example of my currently thoughts: Package foo is orphaned. > > bar is interested in taking it over, but is no Extras contributor yet. > > Sponsor foobar steps up; he acts as proxy between bar and Extras cvs for > > some time (e.g. bar prepares patches, sends them to foobar who applies > > them and requests the build). If everything looks okay after some time > > bar get sponsored. > > > > Is this stupid? Biggest problem: How to find sponsors that like to act > > as proxy? > > --- > > > > That would mean (a lot of) extra work for the sponsors. And that's why > > this idea probably will fail. Does anyone have a better idea? > > The normal review request process? Potential owners can state that its > an orphaned package and edit the orphan wiki page to include the BZ # of > the review request. > > Simple enough? Sorry, I'm not sure I correctly understood what you meant. You mean that a new contributor just files a new review request with an updated version of the old package? That's probably to easy if the old package is in a good shape. CU thl -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
