Re: Sponsorship process

[Paul Howarth <paul city-fan org>]

On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 15:39 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 22.04.2006, 11:48 +0100 schrieb Paul Howarth:
> > On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 10:30 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > First of all thanks to FESco for trusting me and making me a sponsor.
> > > With that said, I just started reading
> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SponsorProcess
> > Looks like the page is need of a few tweaks :-)
> 
> Well, it's a wiki -- feel free to change things. Yes, those pages are
> more important than others and we need to be careful that they remain
> read- and understandable. But I still think every contributor is free to
> add things. Just be more careful.

OK. I'm familiar with editing the wiki but some pages are rather more
"official" than others; I wouldn't dream of editing the package review
guidelines page to suit my personal preferences for instance, however
appealing the thought might be at times :-)

> [...]
> > Another change I'd suggest is to:
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Contributors
> > 
> > There is a section on mailing lists to join, after which it says:
> > 
> > Read Other Submissions
> > Read some other package submissions to learn about packaging and gain
> > familiarity with the process and requirements. 
> > 
> > I'd add to this that joining the read-only fedora-package-review mailing
> > list (not included in the aforementioned section on mailing lists) is a
> > good way to see the process in action for other submissions.
> 
> Go ahead :-)

Done.

Paul.