sponsorship for package adoption without package submission (was Re: Claiming ownership for thinkpad related packages and pam_mount)

[Michael J Knox]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Am Montag, den 15.05.2006, 13:14 -0500 schrieb Jason L Tibbitts III: 
>>>>>>> "KF" == Kevin Fenzi <kevin-fedora-extras at scrye.com> writes:
>> KF> As far as I know we don't have a method to get someone
>> KF> sponsored/maintainer status without them having submitted a
>> KF> package for review.
>>
>> I don't think we have a policy, but the procedure is clear.  They can
>> just sign up for an account as normal, and the sponsor (assuming
>> someone is willing to be one, of course) can upgrade the status as
>> normal.
>>
>> I think the committee should take up the idea of sponsorship for
>> package adoption without package submission.
> 
> I send the following to the FESCo-List last week (it was in a similar
> context). 
> 
> ---
> I'll give a example of my currently thoughts: Package foo is orphaned.
> bar is interested in taking it over, but is no Extras contributor yet.
> Sponsor foobar steps up; he acts as proxy between bar and Extras cvs for
> some time (e.g. bar prepares patches, sends them to foobar who applies
> them and requests the build). If everything looks okay after some time
> bar get sponsored.
> 
> Is this stupid? Biggest problem: How to find sponsors that like to act
> as proxy?
> ---
> 
> That would mean (a lot of) extra work for the sponsors. And that's why
> this idea probably will fail. Does anyone have a better idea?

The normal review request process? Potential owners can state that its 
an orphaned package and edit the orphan wiki page to include the BZ # of 
the review request.

Simple enough?

Michael