On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:59:58 +0000, TH (Tom) wrote: > > Uh, come on, ... package submitters waiting on the NEEDSPONSOR list > > could _really_ work a little bit more actively on persuading potential > > sponsors of their packaging skills. Instead, some wait silently for > > months without doing any package review themselves. > > As somebody who is in exactly that situation all I can say is that if > doing informal reviews is an essential prerequisite to getting sponsored > then the wiki could be a lot clearer. Currently it reads more like it's > just one thing that may help. > > Tom (who is off to look for something to review)
Doing reviews is _not_ mandatory. It can be helpful, especially if someone has submitted only one tiny package -- or multiple ones, which contain several packaging mistakes and even violate the guidelines. The reviewer can tell what's wrong, but for the submitter it's then much too easy to simply apply the changes and be done with the process. With the next package changes, the submitter might do the same mistakes. How does the potential sponsor learn that the submitter knows his stuff? I cannot accept package submitters, who wait silently a full year for someone else to take a look, not (re-)reading guidelines, not fixing the package meanwhile, perhaps complaining on IRC eventually, ... while other submitters read the Wiki documents more carefully and seek for a sponsor actively. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
