On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 02:04:01PM +0200, Daniel Gröber wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 04:30:43PM +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote:
> > You don't need to CC debian-mentors on ITPs, you don't use ITPs to ask for
> > sponsorship and RFSes are sent to debian-mentors automatically.
>
> It's complicated^{TM}. The sponsorship docs don't actually guide people on
> how to get others interested in their workI don't think this is necessary or helpful: most RFSes are sponsored because they are in a good shape and somebody decided to sponsor them, not because a sponsor is actually interested in that software. https://mentors.debian.net/sponsors/ makes sense to me: you either find a relevant team or wait until people that sponsor random packages sponsor yours. Knowing what does the package actually do is mostly useful to skip ones that don't deserve sponsoring. > Now I could have gone on a rant about how to do that properly, but figured: > you know what, it's easier to just CC the ITP to d-mentors too since that > ought to have the full description. Having the ITP sent to d-mentors at some time in the past doesn't help a sponsor looking at the RFS, especially if they do that via the sponsorship-requests BTS page. -- WBR, wRAR
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