Slightly OT: bad rap for Fedora, and realistic effects

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 12:35 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 14:55 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> >> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:05:24 +0100
> >> mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam at arcor.de (Michael Schwendt) wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:23:39 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > 
> >>>> - Fix problems that they cause if mistakes are made and they can't
> >>>> figure out how to fix them. 
> >>> You know this has become impossible with the ACLs. 
> >> For now, for new packages, yes. For existing extras packages they
> >> should still be open to anyone unless the maintainer has placed a
> >> pkg.acl in place. 
> > 
> > == severe regression, rendering the sponsorship model useless and non-functional
> > 
> > => fix it ASAP (now) or revert this change.
> 
> Existing packages do not have ACL's by default. This is the same as 
> before. In other words, it is not a regression.

Sponsors can not intervene into newly added packages!

=> this ACL crap has rendered the sponsorship model NON-APPLICABLE

This is the REGRESSION.

I for one don't see any possibility to sponsor anybody anymore and don't
see any possibility anymore to approve packages having been submitted by
new-comers.

Ralf