Scripsit Jeroen Vermeulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 11:07:44PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> You do not have to be a Debian Developer to be a maintainer. As non DD >> you only need a DD to sponsor your uploads. > Thanks--that sounds like exactly what we need! The code is already set > up as a Debian native package, and even testing it would make little > sense unless we had the packaging up to date with the source tree. I would suggest that it is part of a sponsor's job to check that the sponsored package is not gratuitously structured as a native package. > Is this a recent policy change BTW? No. > | Now that you have tested your new package thoroughly, you will be ready > | to start the Debian new maintainer application process, as described at > | http://www.debian.org/devel/join/newmaint The New Maintainer documentation describes the sponsoring concept. > | 8.1 Uploading to the Debian archive > | > | Once you become an official developer, you'll need to upload the package > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > | to the Debian archive. > So that still assumes that you need to be a developer. No. It says that *once* you become a developer, then you have to do the uploading yourself. Before this happens you will have to find a sponsor to do it, and so you don't yet need to concern youself with direct uploads. > Is this something that needs to be updated? Not as far as I can see. -- Henning Makholm "De kan rejse hid og did i verden nok så flot Og er helt fortrolig med alverdens militær"
