You don't need to be a sponsor in order to approve bugs. For this one, I will take a look why it did not recognize you as a packager.

It fails because person who opened bug is not a packager.

It fails because person who opened bug is not a packager.

It seems I still need to be a sponsor to sponsor the person who opened the bug into packager group. Otherwise, he can not build package for Fedora.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_sponsor_a_new_contributor#Becoming_a_Fedora_Package_Collection_Sponsor
specifies some requirements:
- maintaining at least three packages, satisfied,
- being in the packager group for more than one release cycle, satisfied.
- five non-trivial reviews, not satisfied:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?classification=Fedora&component=Package%20Review&email1=honli%40redhat.com&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&list_id=10155948&product=Fedora&query_format=advanced

I think we should stick to those minimal requirements. Just one review in the last year is not enough for somebody who wants to become a sponsor. Scanning this list, I think your reviews are high-quality, but there's just not enough of them. Being a sponsor requires being up-to-date with current guidelines and packaging trends and enough experience with recent issues and having enough experience with different types of packages to be able to help a sponsoree. Sorry, I'll vote -1 for now. Please do a bunch of reviews and then I'll be happy to change my vote.

If you only need to get sbreyer approved as a packager, there are two main alternatives:
- find some other sponsor,
- pick up the package yourself and have sbreyer sponsored as a co-maintainer following the process outlined in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_get_sponsored_into_the_packager_group#Become_a_co-maintainer. If you want to take this second option, I can act as the sponsor.

• pick up the package yourself and have sbreyer sponsored as a co-maintainer following the process outlined in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_get_sponsored_into_the_packager_group#Become_a_co-maintainer. If you want to take this second option, I can act as the sponsor.

Let's take the second option to speed up the review process.

BTW, we need you to help us to handle opa-ff in this way too.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1333531

I will take over opa-ff as I planed with Michal Schmidt.

thanks

OK. I added @sbreyer to the packager group now with the understanding that you'll mentor him. Let's close this.