Hi Arno, On 11-05-20 at 04:44pm, Arno Töll wrote: > On 20.05.2011 11:22, Neil Williams wrote: > > Fly-by sponsoring is *not* helpful to Debian. > > True. It neither does for the candidate. > > What are alternatives though, if no one else feels sympathy for your > problems and your former sponsors don't react? Again, my case: I'd > love to improve my package's quality (i.e. upload new upstream > releases, fix bugs, port new architectures), in fact I did all of > that. I just can't spread my improvements, as I can't upload, so I > spend my time updating my package on mentors /while/ being in seek for > sponsors and waiting to someone pushing it to the archive.
An alternative is to seek team members rather than mentors. Only one team member in each team needs to have upload rights. I imagine mentors would not mind help out teams as well as individuals if that one person in the team with upload rights happen to not be very good (pedagogically or time-wise or whatever) at mentoring as well. Think "teams" instead of "sponsorship" - it helps all involved move the focus from "getting approved" to the essential "maintain". Kind regards, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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