#118 Tell users to file a ticket when they need to be sponsored
Merged by oturpe. Opened by msuchy.
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The statement on this page differs from the statement on https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Package_Review_Process/#_contributor and does not match expectations of other sponsors (see the current thread on the devel mailing list).

For reference, the devel mailing list thread is here: Auto-assign packager sponsors to tickets?

Notes:

  • Currently, FESCo's Package Sponsor Policy says that Bugzilla's FE-NEEDSPONSOR is to be used for sponsoring requests when new packages are requested
  • Many people say in the devel thread that they think just using Pagure ticketing would be better
  • But at least one person says FE-NEEDSPONSOR is better

I suggest we still let the thread settle down a bit, then do some improvement either here or in the FESCo policy.
The situation where packager candidates are left waiting with no response is not good at all.

Considering

  • The plan to automate this
  • and that the same advice is already included in the Package Review Process: "[After the review is complete] If you have not yet been sponsored, request sponsorship by raising an issue at packager-sponsors."

do you still think we need to do some change here?

I think we can merge it and once this
https://github.com/FrostyX/fedora-review-service/issues/18
is implemented, I'll submit another PR updating this chapter.

rebased onto e2809c090ddf7c27655c7c4b07d4c7885b1b1fa2

Pull-Request has been merged by oturpe

Sounds good. Merged.

According to the policy in README,
commit access is granted to everybody with a merged pull request.
Therefore I have added you to package-maintainer-docs group.
You can now directly commit trivial fixes if you prefer that.
Pull requests are also accepted for any kind of change,
and strongly preferred for anything nontrivial.

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