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I thought he already was a provenpackager.

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I know you and being a FESCo member and a Council member certainly makes you "proven".

OTOH in many other cases, we have demanded that becoming a provenpackager requires a specific reason rather than a desire to help here and there. In the spirit of transparency, I'd like to understand better why you believe that being a provenpackager is necessary to fix some issues (examples would really help me with this understanding). The same curiosity applies to the ability to help your mentees - I'd imagine that offering your help in a form of a pull request and letting the mentee review it, ask questions, etc. might serve the need better than pushing your changes directly.

I am not saying your reasoning is invalid, I just like to be able to understand it better. Thanks.

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I'm not sure where the 'specific reasons' thing has come from. (It's not in the policy). I know when we first setup provenpackagers there was a lot of 'lets make sure not to set the bar too high' discussion (which I couldn't find in a few minutes searching).

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I also mentor many newcomers to Fedora

Do you have sponsor capabilities?

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How come you are not already proven packager?
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The primary reason is I frequently find myself helping package maintainers work issues that need fixes elsewhere and while I am able to help find the problem, I am blocked from fixing the issue at that point in time due to not being a provenpackager.

OTOH in many other cases, we have demanded that becoming a provenpackager requires a specific reason rather than a desire to help here and there.

I don't recall that. We certainly require a reason. And even if we did require a specific reason, "helping package maintainers work issues that need fixes elsewhere" is specific-enough for me.

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I also mentor many newcomers to Fedora

Do you have sponsor capabilities?

Yes I do have that.

How come you are not already proven packager?
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I frequently get this question.

Coming late to the party. :-)

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Better late than never... +1.

Thats 7 days, and I see 20 +1s and 0 -1s, so this is approved. ;)

Use your powers wisely!