[Patrick Matthäi] >> thing is the system of new packages (debian-mentors, >> mentors.debian.net) .. I think that there could be a team dedicated to >> addressing this important task, same as the team dedicated to the >> kernel, the core packages, translation, among other important packages. > > I think you do not know how much work it is to sponsor a packages, > especially if it is NEW or the maintainer does not have enough > experience yet and the whole sponsoring requests ends up in a 30 > mails conversation..
To avoid too much overhead and a large backlog with sponsoring, I only collect sponsoring requests over IRC, and have written a small document giving some guidelines on how I want to handle sponsoring[1]. Matthew Palmer have a similar list[2] I found when looking for clues and tips. 1 http://www.hungry.com/~pere/debian-sponsoring.html 2 http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/sponsorship.html Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
