Draft guidelines for approving provenpackager

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:47:52 -0800
Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:

> We don't currently have guidelines for granting access to proven
> packager.  I took a work item from FESCo to create a draft for this,
> and here is my first stab at it (words in camelcase exist to be
> replaced with links to pages concerning them):

Thanks for working on this! 

> Provenpackager is a group of highly skilled package maintainers who
> are experienced in a wide variety of package types and who are
> intimately familiar with the PackagingGuidelines and
> MaintainerPolicies as well as acutely aware of ReleaseSchedules and
> FreezePolicies.  They exist as a group to lend a hand when help is
> needed, always with a desire to improve the quality of Fedora.  By
> granting membership into provenpackager for a maintainer you are
> confirming that at least in your mind they meet the above criteria
> and that you would trust them fully with any of the packages you
> either maintain or even just use.

That sounds good to me. 

We might also want to mention and/or revisit/cleanup: 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Policy/WhoIsAllowedToModifyWhichPackages
now as well. 

kevin

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