On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:49:31AM +0100, Andreas Marschke wrote: > On Monday 30 November 2009 00:08:20 Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > Lets say this package is maintained on Launchpad that also "maintainance" > > > for debian or would this have to be on mentors.debian.org to be a valid > > > maintainance? (Just curios as there use to be some discussion between the > > > bloggers about that some time back) > > > > Where it is maintained is irrelevant. What is important is the track > > record within Debian, and that can be seen by tools like minechangelogs > > and PTS for example. Or the handling of the bugs for this package that > > you see via our BTS. > > > But if I remember right ftp.debian.org is an official debian repository to > which > only the DDs/Maintainers of a package have access to. > Doesn't that mean I cant upload packages to this repository? Are there > exceptional places on ftp.debian.org a non-maintainer can upload his packages > to without triggering the alarmbells?
There is a difference between a package maintainer (the person or group mentioned in a package's Maintainer field) and the Debian Maintainer (DM) fields. While it is true that only DDs and DMs can upload to the archive, it is still possible to maintain packages via a sponsor (who is actually uploading packages for a non DD/DM maintainer. There are several good ways to find sponsors, one is mentors.d.n [1] the other is one of the different teams [2]. [1] http://mentors.debian.net/ [2] http://wiki.debian.org/CategoryTeams There are surely more ways to show activity even without uploading packages or doing other packaging work. Regards Jan -- Jan Dittberner - Debian Developer GPG-key: 4096R/558FB8DD 2009-05-10 B2FF 1D95 CE8F 7A22 DF4C F09B A73E 0055 558F B8DD http://www.dittberner.info/
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