[Strawman] Sponsoring after Permissions Reorg

[Daniel Holbach]

Am Mittwoch, den 09.12.2009, 21:21 +0900 schrieb Emmet Hikory:
> I think there is
> significant social value to the discussions that happen during and
> around sponsoring, and that this is a strong vector for sharing best
> practices and values.  If we have a semi-automated system where
> arbitrary folk just attach branches and it gets uploaded, how do we
> build the social rapport that causes us to welcome new developers?
> What incentive exists that encourages people to choose to request
> upload permission?

I agree with everything you've said here and think it's unrelated to the
discussion at hand. The process does not have anything to do with how
appreciative reviewers are and how informative and supportive the
discussion of the patch or branch is.

What you describe happens naturally, unrelated to the process involved.
If somebody regularly contributes to say gedit and gtksourceview, they
will at some stage talk to Sébastien and he'll get to know them and
after some stage be happy with their contributions, no matter if it was
ubuntu-desktop-sponsors or ubuntu-main-sponsors or ubuntu-sponsors they
subscribed to the bug. :)

In a separate discussion we should probably discuss how we can be more
encouraging and more inviting and offer to help on IRC or something.

Have a great day,
 Daniel