> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > It has been signed conforming to RFC2015. > You'll need PGP or GPG to check the signature. > > ------------=_994626186-1074-2 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > "Greg Wiley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The question is: which do I do first, announce my intentions to > > debian-devel or submit a new main- tainer application? The > > application seems to want me to announce. Other docs seem to > > indicate that I should become a maintainer first. > > You can become a NM without having a package in Debian. Showing off a > good package is a fine way, to demonstrate that you have the necessary > skills, but it is this package need not be an official Debian one. > > OTOH, you don't have to be a Debian developer to contribute official > packages. If you aren't, you need a sponsor who is a developer. S/he > will check if your package is done right, and provide the stamp of > approval so it can be uploaded into Debian. > > Nowadays, you also need an advocate who is a Debian develper, to get > into the NM queue. > > Following from all this, I recommend: > > 1. Announce that you're willing to adopt package X, but that you'll > need a sponsor. Don't forget to Cc: the WNPP bug for package X.
1.5 You might use the sponsorship program in the meanwhile. Search for the link `sponsorship program' on http://www.debian.org/devel > 2. Wait until a sponsor contacts you. > 3. Do the necessary work on package X, and send the results to your > sponsor. Repeat until s/he is satisfied -- then your package will > be uploaded by the sponsor. > 4. Ask your sponsor whether s/he would advocate for you. If s/he is > willing, apply for NM. > > -- > Robbe > > ------------=_994626186-1074-2 > Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.ng" > Content-Disposition: inline; filename="signature.ng" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE7SMqL8g21h7wYWrMRAhvvAJ9bWPugDiYz/lRdAWNTeg2BLoat0gCeKUhP > 2gcZXbCREBvQ0R7dC+vGYGY= > =1M5w > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ------------=_994626186-1074-2-- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hillel used to say: If I am not for myself who will be for me? Yet, if I am for myself only, what am I? And if not now, when? (Ethics Of The Fathers 1:14)
