The Debian sponsoring process

Debian depends on a large group of package maintainers without upload rights (or with limited upload rights) and a smaller group of Debian Developers that check their work and upload it to Debian. In this BOF we'd like to discuss technical and social ways that this process could be improved. Potential topics include the new debexpo site, whether having some formal process or team to sponsor would help, how we can make sure that reasonable packages get reviewed, whether we should explicitly "reject" requests for package sponsorship, how to encourage more DDs to become involved, and how to channel more new contributors into maintaining existing packages.