Sponsor required

[Denis Leroy]

Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 22:07 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Christopher Aillon wrote:
>>> On 04/29/2008 06:11 AM, Joe Orton wrote:
>>>> Hi, Elio Maldonado Batiz has been diligently hacking away at 
>>>> converting the crypto-utils package to use NSS instead of OpenSSL, see 
>>>> bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=346731.
>>>>
>>>> This is a big chunk of work and is now ready to commit; I don't 
>>>> particularly want to play gatekeeper for this, could someone sponsor 
>>>> Elio to join the cvsextras group?  Elio's username is emaldonado.
>>> Joe, I think this is a great time to point out that you too can become a 
>>> sponsor and be able to help with new contributors.  It is rather unfair 
>>> to ask people here to do so since being a sponsor requires a certain 
>>> level of commitment to helping the sponsoree with problems they may 
>>> encounter.  It seems that you are willing to do that for Elio, and 
>>> should be his sponsor.
>>>
>> Which is pointing out one very big sore point in Fedora after the merge between 
>> core and extras, very little people seem to have been appointed sponsor, 
>> certainly something where IMHO FESco is dropping the ball.
> 
> I realize that it's much easier to criticize a small body of people vs.
> the whole Fedora community, but this is hardly FESCo's fault.  We have a
> standing item in the meeting to discuss and vote on sponsors.  We
> literally have not received any nominations in quite a while.

here, I'll nominate myself.

-denis