Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> writes: > Am Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 10:46:03PM +0500 schrieb Andrey Rakhmatullin: >> On Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 10:39:52AM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: >> > I have directed several RFS (Request For Sponsor) towards appropriate >> > teams, >> > when then exist. However, my personal experience is that the majority of >> > RFS >> > that come into Debian Mentors do not fit neatly into any existing team. >> >> Yeah. We have a lot of leaf applications and so on that can't have a team. > > To be precise, we have both: packages that may not fit neatly into any > team, and many packages that align perfectly with existing teams, such > as the scientific team, games team, multimedia team, phototools team, > and others. I've moved many packages to these teams. Additionally, the > software in question is written in a specific programming language, > making it easier to find maintainers fluent in that language within the > dedicated language team. These maintainers can help with issues, or, > even better, the newcomer may contribute to resolving problems within > the language-specific team. I don't want to suggest that current team > members are eager for more work, but the potential for new, active team > members might be compelling enough to take on the responsibility of > sponsoring. > > Kind regards > Andreas. > > -- > https://fam-tille.de >
Having a team to maintain a group of related packages is supposed to improve velocity and usually works well. However there is a chance that a team may be understuffed, both temporarily and gradually. I have recently become a DM, so technically if my RFS bugs have been sponsored I can work autonomously on those packages. Unfortunately my RFS bug list is still growing[1] as my team becomes relatively less active recently. I totally understand as this is voluntary work and people have their lives to attend to (I do), and I am grateful for all comments and sponsoring from my team. On the other hand, seeing my packages being removed from mentors.d.n because of no sponsorship after 20 weeks is also discouraging. It would be great to have a group of DDs that are willing to regularly check for RFS bugs / mentors.d.n and offer sponsorship, even for team maintained packages. Some teams also maintain a team policy either on wiki[2] or in a document in team repo, which can be a good guideline for outside sponsors. Just my 2 cents. P.S. I would also like to take this chance to appreciate Phil Wyett's automatic RFS checking that adds "confirmed" tag to RFS bugs that passed the checks, which helps ensure a minimum quality of a prepared package ready for sponsorship that can reduce the review rounds and potentially save some time for potential sponsors. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=unstable;package=sponsorship-requests&submitter=manphiz%40gmail.com [2] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianEmacsenTeam -- Regards, Xiyue Deng
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