Sponsorship process

[Hans de Goede]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:48:18 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>>> If I'm not mistaken the proper way to find people needing sponsors is to
>>> look at the FE-NEEDSPONSOR tracker bug:
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=177841
>> Yes, I would agree there. In fact, the Contributors page only tells
>> people to get a Fedora Account after their package has been approved.
>>
>> The Contributors page also tells the submitter to mention that they need
>> sponsoring, but doesn't mention adding the FE-NEEDSPONSOR tracker bug,
>> so some submitters won't have done this.
> 
> This procedure has not been made official. The FE-NEEDSPONSOR tracker is
> experimental and optional as I understand it. Better is really if new
> contributors post to fedora-extras-list, introducing their package review
> requests.
> 

I have no problem with this, I actually believe the old post an
introduction mail to the list stating interest etc was a good idea, but
this is not what is currently advertised in the wiki. As things stand
the procedure advertised to new contributers and those to sponsors
differ, and in my 6 hours being a sponsor experience FE-NEEDSPONSOR
actually helps me to find people who need a sponsor whereas the
currently advertised procedure does not.

Regards,

Hans