The situation with sponsoring in Debian is not specific to packages from derivatives. Lets move the discussion about how it could be improved to debian-devel, please reply there. For those not subscribed to the debian-derivatives list, here is the mail that started the thread:
http://lists.debian.org/20110519114617.gh7...@alcor.net http://lists.debian.org/debian-derivatives/2011/05/threads.html#00027 Here are some things that people interested in helping improve the situation could do: Participate on -mentors with reviewing packages. Anyone and everyone can do this. Encourage people to use the "Debian Maintainer" status more. Encourage people who are clearly clueful to join Debian via the "New Maintainer" process. Chose a specific person to mentor, review their packages, educate them about Debian, upload their packages when ready and encourage them join DM/NM. Rinse, repeat. Promote sponsorship amongst Debian uploading members. Blog about positive sponsorship experiences you've had. This is probably a very important thing to do. Join the Debian new maintainer process as an application manager. Promote being an application manager amongst Debian members. Blog about your experience. The sooner someone is an uploading member of Debian, the sooner they can sponsor someone else. Write a sponsor-alert/mentors-alert script for devscripts that could be used by people interested in sponsoring: http://bugs.debian.org/552277 Help out with the debexpo project which aims to refresh the mentors.d.n code and implement some of the ideas generated a while ago that could be used to streamline the flow of packages into Debian. Mainly this is about matching the interests of sponsors with packages produced by people who are not (yet) able to upload and also automating as much of the review process as possible. Kinda like the RFP tag idea from the thread on -derivatives but much larger in scope: http://wiki.debian.org/Debexpo http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsNet If you are part of a team, get a PET instance installed and regularly look at and work on the "Ready for upload" section: http://pet.alioth.debian.org/ Contribute to the documentation about sponsorship that we have available: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#newmaint http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq http://wiki.debian.org/SponsorChecklist Attend Asheesh Laroia's talk and David Bremner's BoF at DebConf11 on these topics. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTi=-tv2phYZ=pf9mzmy13flt9ru...@mail.gmail.com
