Sponsorship process

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:48:18 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:

> > If I'm not mistaken the proper way to find people needing sponsors is to
> > look at the FE-NEEDSPONSOR tracker bug:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=177841
> 
> Yes, I would agree there. In fact, the Contributors page only tells
> people to get a Fedora Account after their package has been approved.
> 
> The Contributors page also tells the submitter to mention that they need
> sponsoring, but doesn't mention adding the FE-NEEDSPONSOR tracker bug,
> so some submitters won't have done this.

This procedure has not been made official. The FE-NEEDSPONSOR tracker is
experimental and optional as I understand it. Better is really if new
contributors post to fedora-extras-list, introducing their package review
requests.