Sponsor required

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Tue Apr 29 20:07:02 UTC 2008


Christopher Aillon wrote:
> On 04/29/2008 06:11 AM, Joe Orton wrote:
>> Hi, Elio Maldonado Batiz has been diligently hacking away at 
>> converting the crypto-utils package to use NSS instead of OpenSSL, see 
>> bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=346731.
>>
>> This is a big chunk of work and is now ready to commit; I don't 
>> particularly want to play gatekeeper for this, could someone sponsor 
>> Elio to join the cvsextras group?  Elio's username is emaldonado.
> 
> Joe, I think this is a great time to point out that you too can become a 
> sponsor and be able to help with new contributors.  It is rather unfair 
> to ask people here to do so since being a sponsor requires a certain 
> level of commitment to helping the sponsoree with problems they may 
> encounter.  It seems that you are willing to do that for Elio, and 
> should be his sponsor.
> 

Which is pointing out one very big sore point in Fedora after the merge between 
core and extras, very little people seem to have been appointed sponsor, 
certainly something where IMHO FESco is dropping the ball.

I would like to suggest to FESco to put talking about possible sponsor 
candidates every meeting (in a closed fashion, openness is good, but talking 
about people skills or lake thereof in public is asking for trouble).

In the pre merger days, I believe that sponsors where voted upon by the current 
sponsors, or atleast the list of current sponsors was mailed for what they 
thought of someone who was up for becoming a sponsor, I haven't seen any such 
mails in a long long time!

Regards,

Hans




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