Re: How to add upstream developer as a (co)maintainer of the existing application?

[Bruno Wolff III <bruno wolff to>]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 20:31:16 +0300,
  Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov gmail com> wrote:
> 
> There is a package, already included in Fedora, and there is a
> friendly and active upstream developer, who wants to be a
> (co)maintainer of this app. (S)he doesn't maintain any packages in
> Fedora currently. So the question is - is there a policy on how such
> situations should be handled?

I don't know the exact procedure, but they still need to be sponsored.
Sponsors are allowed to sponsor people who are not primary maintainers
of a package.

Because maintaining the package upstream doesn't necessarily mean that
the person knows what they need to be a good Fedora packager, this isn't
going to be automatic.