It's an unfortunate fact that our sponsorship process makes things rather difficult for an upstream who would simply like to make their software available in Extras. They don't want to submit multiple packages and they aren't generally interested in doing a lot of extra community work. Some might say that if they're not interested in the community then they shouldn't be a maintainer (with all of the attendant access this brings), but I think that the gift of their software should count for something. Frankly I think that we should encourage upstream software authors to become involved with Extras instead of letting the packages sit endlessly in the purgatory of the FE-NEW queue. One proposed solution to this involves finding an existing Fedora package maintainer to co-maintain the package. This gives the benefits of bringing together someone intimately familiar with the software and someone already familiar with Fedora policies and procedures. I think it's a pretty good idea, but it does require that someone step up to co-maintain. So, would anyone object to trying this out with a couple of packages? To start, is there anyone interested in co-maintaining libssa (A C++ Object-Oriented network library)? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210187 You don't need to be a sponsor, just an existing maintainer. I'll do the sponsorship bit once the package review is complete. - J< -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
