Upstream developers mainting there own package in Fedora and nothing else

[Hans de Goede]

Hi All,

After the sponsor discussion we recently had, I decided I've been neglecting 
the sponsoring and went and took a look at the FE-NEEDSPONSOR queue.

One of the reviews this has got me involved in is fpm2:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444830

This review is special as the upstream developer is submitting the package, and 
he has stated that for now he has no interest in doing other Fedora work.

I believe that it is good to have upstream maintain packages for there own 
software, even if that is the only thing they do within Fedora, so I've 
proposed the following procedure to the submitter:

--

Ok, we currently don't really have any special rules for an upstream maintainer 
becoming a maintainer of its own software within Fedora, but this is definitely 
something we want. So I would like to propose the following:

1 I review fpm2, you make any necessary changes etc, until I approve fpm2
2 Once fpm2 is approved you can request cvsextras membership in the account-
   system and I'll sponsor you
3 Given that you're new at packaging I'll then co-maintain fpm2 with you
   (mostly looking over your shoulder I'm more then busy enough as is).
4 Please refrain from touching other peoples packages as you've not been
   through the normal showing the ropes process involved in sponsering
5 If you want to submit another package please let me know then we can continue
   the sponsor process there.

Does this sound like a plan?

--

And now I'm wondering what others think of this and if maybe we should get some 
kinda special procedure for this? This has lead to me thinking that we really 
need the special new contributer group which was proposed by I believe Jesse, 
which is to be a special group for new contributers which would not give them 
access to anything outside their own packages.

Regards,

Hans