2008/5/5 Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@gmail.com>:
On Mon, 05 May 2008 12:36:49 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:

> > If you agree with an upstream developer on maintaining a package in Fedora,
> > either alone or with you as co-maintainer, does it matter how you do it?
> >
>
> Well there always is this problem of someone becoming malicious, I guess if
> someone really wants to he can easily just follow the normal process, so do a
> couple of new packages and a couple of reviews, but this is lowering the
> barrier to entry, which I'm fine with, but I atleast want others to know about
> this and shout "NOOO" before continuing with this.

That belongs into my [very] old series of queries related to "sponsor
responsibilities", which is still unanswered because it's a complex
topic. All the burden is on the shoulders of the sponsors. It's completely
up to their judgement whom to sponsor, whether to interview a new
contributor prior to approval, whether to collect and compare personal
information retrieved from web search engines, whether to insist on seeing
a demonstration of packaging skills during review of several packages,
whether to serve as a proxy for a newbie packager, whether and when to
trust somebody from the other side of the world, and so on. And still a
contributor might become hostile after months and delete group-writable
files in cvs under the umbrella of a "sorry, fat fingers" excuse. Then
it's the sponsor's duty to repair the damage.

[The new FAS is not nice to sponsors either. They need to load the
full cvsextras members list and search for the account to sponsor.

Hm...sponsor or administrator of an related group should see on its welcome FAS's page
members who requested sponsorship from its "todo queue".


Something that resulted in time-outs the last two times I did it.
For sponsors, there doesn't seem to be a list of people you sponsored.]



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