2008/7/29 Ronald van Haren <pressh@gmail.com>: [cut]
Don't worry about being the sponsor, it could've been any of us. It is nearly impossible for the sponsor to verify everything by himself all the time as he might be busy with other things. As applications can't put on hold for too long, that's where the rest of the group kicks in.
Sorry, but IMHO this isn't right. A sponsor needs to verify his candidate. I could share with you my past: 3-4 months of Archlinux security, personal repo with compiz and xgl, with the help ( when I need it for some PKGBUILD ) of voidnull and molok. Then, my application: all TUs know me for my works, and not for my words. If we starts ( as it is already done ) to sponsor everyone only for increase the number of TUs, we're wrong. Absolutely wrong. And we will see TUs that appear and disappear in one week, many orphaned packages in community, etc. Finally, do what you want, I have one vote, I will use it.