Wording of "Previously in Core" Procedure

[Warren Togami]

I will be adding the exception that we had been following during the 
past few months to the NewPackageProcess.  Maybe the wording will need 
to be cleaned up a bit, and I am not exactly sure where to add it to the 
current page.  Please reply with suggestions and questions.


"If the package has been in a previous Fedora Core stable release but it 
has been subsequently removed, then it requires no review to be imported 
into Fedora Extras.  Existing Extras contributors may claim ownership by 
posting to fedora-extras-list with the package name in the Subject, 
importing the original RH package, then proceding to make improvements 
in CVS from that baseline."


I explicitly state "Existing Extras contributors" here because adoption 
of an existing package written by someone else is most often never 
enough of an indicator to the sponsors if that new potential contributor 
truly understands packaging and has read the guidelines.  One of the 
things decided upon at the FUDCON2 planning meeting was that new members 
can become sponsored only after one or more of their package submissions 
has been reviewed and approved.  After this point a sponsor member can 
determine if it is the right thing to grant membership.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com