I think Ken should follow the usual procedure:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers

That is, somehow demonstrate he's familiar with RPM packaging. A good way to do that is doing a couple of informal package reviews (I think you can then paste the link here).

Replying to [comment:1 lkundrak]:

I think Ken should follow the usual procedure:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers

That is, somehow demonstrate he's familiar with RPM packaging. A good way to do that is doing a couple of informal package reviews (I think you can then paste the link here).

I think he was following:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_get_sponsored_into_the_packager_group?rd=PackageMaintainers/HowToGetSponsored#Become_a_co-maintainer

But perhaps mcpierce could clarify and confirm that he is willing to mentor them.

Replying to [comment:2 kevin]:

I think he was following:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_get_sponsored_into_the_packager_group?rd=PackageMaintainers/HowToGetSponsored#Become_a_co-maintainer

But perhaps mcpierce could clarify and confirm that he is willing to mentor them.

That is correct. At this time Ken is only interested in helping to package the Pyngus package, and I'm going to mentor him.

Done. I have added them to the packager group.

They should now be able to login to pkgdb and request co-maintainership.