Re: Request for ownership: zile maintainer not responding

[Michael Schwendt <mschwendt gmail com>]

On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 15:18:53 +0530, Debarshi Ray wrote:

> Please note that although I filed the initial bug (as required by the
> Non-Responsive Maintainer policy) against Zile, the person actually
> interested in taking it over (ie. Rakesh) is not an existing Fedora
> contributor. Even though the policy page
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Policy/NonResponsiveMaintainers)
> says "If the requester is a not an existing Fedora contributor, he may
> still take over a package", it does not mention how that would be
> possible. The usual way is to submit a review request and wait for a
> sponsor.

No, the usual way for new contributors is to find a sponsor.
It doesn't matter how they do it.

Submitting packages for review is just one way to look for sponsors.