#554 Request Designation as Packager Sponsor
Closed: accepted 2 years ago by kevin. Opened 2 years ago by jonathanspw.

I'd like to formally request review to becoming a packager sponsor.

I've been a packager since July 14 2022 (my sponsored package: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2106939)

In that time I have:
- built 26 new packages that passed reviews and were subsequently added to Fedora/EPEL.
- completed 15 reviews for other packagers across multiple languages
- been added to the certbot SIG and published several updates to it
- been added to the EPEL SIG
- taken ownership of multiple orphaned packages and got them back on track
- been a member of the packager group for the entire F37 release cycle


While the work is impressive, we have one rule in
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Packager_sponsor_policy/#who_sponsors_the_sponsors

The rule is:
Have been members of the packager group for at least one release cycle so that they have seen the process of branching for a new release.

While you technically have seen the branching process. It has not been 6 months since you become packager.
Therefore I am for -1, but I hope you will really in the second half of January. Then I will definitely vote for you.

While the list of your package reviews contains lots of trivial reviews (which does not count) I made the list of non-trivial review to ease others the review:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2121595
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2121593
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2117772
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2107818
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2116217

While the work is impressive, we have one rule in
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Packager_sponsor_policy/#who_sponsors_the_sponsors

The rule is:
Have been members of the packager group for at least one release cycle so that they have seen the process of branching for a new release.

While you technically have seen the branching process. It has not been 6 months since you become packager.
Therefore I am for -1, but I hope you will really in the second half of January. Then I will definitely vote for you.

I was under the impression the release cycle was the important part, and the "(generally 6 months)" part at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/How_to_Sponsor_a_New_Contributor/#becoming_a_fedora_package_collection_sponsor was only in reference to how long release cycles generally are.

The doc you linked and the one I linked seem to slightly conflict on the time implication.

It's been a few more months. Would anyone care to vote now or @jonathanspw would you care to add anything or resubmit later?

+1 from me.

I'd like to proceed. I was waiting until the 14th to bump this since it's technically the 6 month mark.

I'm currently working on what I think is a non-trivial review in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2157646 for whatever that's worth.

Would love for everyone to vote :)

I've worked with @jonathanspw with the certbot packages

I am +1 to this request.

I see now +11 and no -1s, so this is accepted. ;)

Use your powers wisely!

Metadata Update from @kevin:
- Issue close_status updated to: accepted
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

2 years ago

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