Hi Sean, Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> writes:
> Hello, > > On Mon 09 Dec 2024 at 03:58pm -08, Xiyue Deng wrote: > >> These are valid concerns. I think the tooling from Phil should help >> with your point 2 and 3. For 4-6, I personally never expect the same DD >> would provide long-term support after sponsoring. Maybe making that >> clear on the Debian wiki[1] would help with aligning the expectations. >> >> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq > > Huh. This has always been my expectation. The sponsee is committing to > maintaining it through the end of the next stable release (as any > package maintainer does) and the DD is committing to reviewing and > sponsoring the uploads so it's actually possible for them to do that. > > Of course, it's best effort as ever with volunteers, but that's not > nothing. > Thanks for your input! For sure if what-you-suggest happens on a regular basis it would be great. I am just hoping to let perspective DD sponsors have less concerns that we as sponsees don't necessarily want to take even more of their previous free time for granted. I think for general questions we can ask on debian-devel@l.d.o or #debian-devel@OFTC (or the corresponding debian-mentors places) instead of relying on a dedicated sponsor so as to lower their burden. All that is to make perspective DD sponsors have less concerns to start reviewing and sponsoring. As your said, "it's best effort as ever with volunteers." > Teams are a bit different, I guess. But, for example when I said on > emacs-devel today that I could sponsor that C library you might be able > to help upload, I meant that it would be on a continuing basis. > Thanks for your support! > It doesn't seem good for Debian, or the sponsee, for the DD to sponsor > it through NEW and then leave the sponsee in limbo. > Ack. I would also hope for the best. > -- > Sean Whitton -- Regards, Xiyue Deng
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